The chairperson for the Harbour Grace Board of Culture, Innovation and Business says there is no time to wait when it comes to gathering oral history from community members.

That was the incentive for a new 12 week project underway in the town called the “Oral History of Harbour Grace.”

Jack Rose says the elderly people who have lived and experienced the province’s rich history are the only way we have of figuring out a lot of our past.

He says so while the people are still alive, the board thought they cannot wait another day, another month or another year because they will lose the valuable resources and stories that they shouldn’t let go.