"Meeting the Locals"

"It was 1951 and she was due, overdue really, to go out, so I was to take her place until she came back. So I finally got here and Jean met me on the steps of the hospital...

- Sheila Paddon

"Paper Dolls and Birch Bark Toys"

"A quick visit to the woodshed produced some sheets of bark, and in no time at all, both Elizabeth and Francis were hard at work showing me the kinds of toys they used to make themselves..."

- Robin McGrath

"Chief Trader Henry Connolly"

"6 June 1863 - Her Ladyship Mary Wolfrey & son also left in a devil of humour because she could not get Master Goudies flat - to bring them out, but they must wait for awhile, the infernal set we must try to get some thing to pay for their greedy bellies..."

- Leslie Baikie