GOIN ’ TO THE CORNER

iel Murphy, Elmer Wallace, George Dunbar and Charles Adams Jr. There

may have been others.

In 1967 Cyril McKenna of Elmsdale built a warehouse for Mill River Farms on property purchased from John Wallace. Laminated rafters were brought in from British Columbia. Lo- cal people worked on its construction

but only the name of Waldron Rix could be remembered. The business was sold in 1970- 1971 to H.B. Willis, who renamed it

Elm Farms. It was managed by Donald MacKenzie. In 1989 it was sold to Mary Jean Irving, who renamed it Indian River Farms. In 1991 it was purchased by WP.

Griffin Inc.

Lillian Adams Coll.

Mill River Farms

Kenneth R. Matthews ’s - Kenneth R. Matthews grew potatoes on his farm on the Cheese Factory Road, on land he bought from Heber Ramsay, and on the Murray Gulliver farm in Montrose, which he bought from Lloyd MacWilliams. We believe these farms were bought after he left his store business in 1958.

Around 1960 he bought a warehouse on the railway siding in Alberton from J. Erskine Clark. He graded ten and fifty-pound bags of potatoes for the table market in To— ronto and Montreal. In 1970 he sold his warehouse to Stewart Farms of Rosebank. This warehouse is operated today by Lea and Donald Stewart. After selling his ware- house he continued to grow potatoes but sold them “out of the field” at harvest time. Later he rented his acreage until he sold his Montrose property to Herbert and Alder Pridham, previous to 1975, and his Cheese Factory Road property to John Wallace

in 1990. =

In 1960 David Gordon of Alma built a potato warehouse for Ken in Winsloe, PEI. Ken moved to Winsloe and lived in an apartment above the warehouse. His family

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