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Mrs. Cameron was the hostess, cook and housekeeper for the inn where travelers were served meals and given overnight accommodation. Thelma (Adams) Wells whose family home was located across the road recalls “going over to help Mrs. Cameron who had a large table set up for their guests”. Jean O’Brien says that when Mrs. James O’Brien taught school at Elmsdale, she would go to Cameron’s Inn for lunch. If they were busy, Mrs. Cameron would ask her to help by waiting on tables in

lieu of paying for her lunch.

Vernon Hardy recalls many salesmen would arrive by train to.,Cameron’s Inn, espe- cially in winter, with two or three large trunks filled with samples of goods to sell to local merchants. People living in the community made a business of driving the agent with their samples from one place of business to another. They had good horses

and sleighs fitted up to provide this necessary transportation.

We also noted in a newspaper ad that a traveling veterinarian from "St. Eleanor’s, Dr. F.V. Cannon, V.S. would be working at Cameron’s Inn. Farmers were asked to bring their animals to the veterinarian. Appar- ently he did not go out to farms as veterinarians of today do. .

After successfully operating their inn and livery stable in Elmsdale the Cameron’s moved to Alberton where by the 19203 they operated the Albion Ter- race Hotel, which would later become the first Western Hospital. The original Cameron’s Inn building in Elmsdale

burned in 1986.

Susie Wells’s Inn

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