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Thelma Wells (who ran the Turkey Burger in Elmsdale, with The Mobile Ice Cream Canteen

the help of her sister, Ruby Fraser) prepares meals at the Prince County Exhibition, 1986.

The Mobile Ice Cream Canteen - About 30 years ago Thelma Wells and Jewel Finley had a mobile ice cream canteen built. They used a half-ton truck to haul it from place to place. They sold only ice cream, sundaes, and milk shakes. It was a popular place when set up at events such as the horse races at Alberton track, the Prince County Exhibition grounds, the Tignish Moss Festival, the O’Leary Potato Blossom Festival, and the Egmont Bay Exhibition. It is still in use and can be seen each year at the Prince County Exhibition in Alberton, just outside on the south side

of the old dining room.

Adams-Blanchard Canteens —- In the spring Of 1983 Ivan and Lily Adams had Mike Kinch build them a mobile trailer in which they operated a canteen called “Adams’ Canteen”. They sold soft drinks and foods you would find in a fast food outlet. They also sold Lily’s homemade breads, sweets and lobster fished by Ivan and their sons. Ivan cooked the lobster, which was sold in the shell or on a roll or sandwich. They set up their canteen at the Alberton Farmers’ Market, the Alberton racetrack, Jacques Cartier Provincial Park and sometimes in their son Allan’s front yard. In 1985 their son-in—law and daughter, Jerry and Darlene Blanchard purchased the little business and renamed it “Blanchard’s Canteen”. For the next twelve years

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