A History of Elmsdale, Elmsdale West, and Brockton, Prince Edward Island

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The small building on the right is Jack Adams’s first store, the Jack Adams, storekeeper, with his wife, Naomi, and daugh- one on the left was bought by Jack in 1948 from Waldron Rix. ter, Gail Adams, in 1945,

Gail Adams is in the foreground.

She made it her home, on land she purchased in 1939 from John A. Callahan. From the Summerside Journal May 6, 1940 Elmsdale Notes, we read: “Mrs. Hazel Cameron, the postmistress, is having her house renovated. The work is under the supervision of George Adams, assisted by his son Howard.”

This must have been a well-constructed building to withstand all the moving and to

still be in existence today as part of the home of Derek McNeill on the Dock Road, Elmsdale.

Jack Wells constructed a building around 1936 for his wife Jennie to use as an ice Cream store. Brendan Wallace remembers as a boy going with his father to this store 011 his birthday, where he got a chocolate bar. Later the building was sold to A.L. Rennie and it became his egg grading station on the opposite side of the intersection.

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