CRAPAUD CREAMERY The Crapaud Creamery at the time of the publishing of the Crapaud History in the late 1950fs was a flourishing business. Since then and at an increasing rate into the 1970fs, 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. The peak of production was reached during the 1950fs 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 0fLeary 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 , 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 AUDREY WADDELL JOAN MACINNIS GERTRUDE FERGUSON BARBARA MACD0NALD Dec. 22, 1955 - Nov. 10, 1969 Nov. 17, 1969 - June 30, 1989 Aug. 14, 1989 - Asst. P.M. Oct . 1979 - Acting P.M. July 12, 1989 - Aud. 12, 1989 Casual Feb. 12, 1981 - Sept. 1989 32