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CRAPAUD Y _

The Crapaud Creamery at the time of the publishing of the Crapaud History in the late 1950's was a flourishing business. Since then and at an increasing rate into the 1970's, changes in farming practices and a rapidly decreasing number of far- mers who kept milk cows, brought about a very rapid decline in the production of butter at the Creamery. The larger cream producers changed to shipping milk and many smaller cream pro- ducers simply quit. I

The peak of production was reached during the 1950's when

the number of shippers exceeded five hundred. Twenty-five

years later when the Creamery was sold, the numbers had declined to less than fifty. At the present time, there are no cream shippers in the Crapaud district and only one farm shipping milk.

As a result of this decline, about 1980, the Directors of the Creamery made a wise decision to sell the business to Amalgamated Dairies of Summerside for a very fair price. A.D.L. continued to run the Creamery until 1985. Since then it has been a collection depot for cream for the remaining cream ship- pers. The cream is then trucked to O'Leary for churning.

The Canadian Dairy Industry operates under a very tightly controlled system of production called Supply Management, which invloves farm quotas. In this province, there is an opportunity for new people to enter the cream production sector. A few are doing this. With the changing life styles, shorter work week, and free week-ends, one is forced to predict that there will be fewer dairy herds in the future than there are now.

After ninety-five years of fine service to the farm com- munity and due, in no small part, to the dedicated people who managed it until it was sold, it is apparent that the existence of the Crapaud Creamery, as we knew it, is about to come to an

end.

CRAPAUD POST OFFICE

In the spring of 1964 land was purchased from Arthur Simmons for the purpose of building a new Post Office for Crapaud Village. The Office was finished and opened for business on Nov. 12, 1964, with D. Lloyd Waddell as Post Master, a position which he held until his death on Nov. 10, 1969, when he was succeeded by his Deputy, Mrs. Audrey Waddell, who received her appointment as Post

Mistress on Nov. 17, 1969.

LLOYD WADDELL Dec. 22, 1955 * Nov. 10, 1969 AUDREY WADDELL Nov. 17, 1969 - June 30, 1989 JOAN MACINNIS ' Aug. 14, 1989 - GERTRUDE FERGUSON Asst. P.M. Oct. 1979 - _ Acting P.M. July 12, 1989 - Aud. 12, 1989 BARBARA MACDONALD Casual Feb. 12, 1981 - Sept. 1989

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