The Elder Transcripts

From an interview with Harry Sulis, Smith’s Cove
Oh, there was ample stuff in Digby. You could, you know, we had hardware stores and we had clothing stores and shoe stores and, well you name it, Digby is not like that now, I mean we had some of the finest hardware stores there were probably in the Province. There was Dakin’s and Ruggles Hardware Store and they had, they supplied everything you could possibly need and then, like I say, clothes, and men’s, and woman’s, and shoes, and hair, and barber’s, and hairdressers, and, well, everything. Very prosperous town, very prosperous and every once and a while when the time presented it, my mother would get me all dallied up like little Lord Flaunt Roy ‘cause I was the baby and take me down to the train station and put me on the train in the afternoon for ten cents and take me to Digby and that was big time, that was big stuff that ride to Digby. I can remember that just as vivid as it was yesterday, the smell of the old train and that big thing coming into the station and looking up at it, the steam ‘a flyin’ and the light, you know, for a kid this high, that was something, yep.