A History of Elmsdale , West, and Brockton , Kufckt—Th* Rbc GrU* mi! wttt te shot down {mm triading 1tov twp IRWfal t( M A * 2§tl§# till itfttwwi IMfem HIM Will &«§■* iHU It dose as m~ mL AwttaKf*. ■N Pioneer, September 28,1929 sawmill and did a lot of sawing for peo¬ ple in Elmsdale as the Summerside Jour¬ nal December 4, 1947 stated: " Mr. George Clark of Brooklyn has been in the village for several days with his port¬ able rotary saw carriage doing custom sawing for the public." Howard Adams had a rotary sawmill, which was used to saw lumber for build¬ ing homes and barns. He and his father George built many homes in the Elmsdale area. He also had a shingle mill with which he sawed cedar shin¬ gles, and a shook mill with which he made material to build potato and oys¬ ter crates. He provided packages of hex¬ agonal ends and packages of rectangu¬ lar slats to the potato warehouses, where the boxes were eventually assembled. By 1891 Rennie & Matthews from Elmsdale had established a first-class saw and shingle mill at Portage railway siding. The mill also sawed lumber, framework and barrel staves. William Matthews took over the operation of the mill himself, after a devastating fire in 1893, and rebuilt it completely. It was still operating in 1907. The Rennie involved was Louis Rennie , storekeeper. When one looks at how shallow Huntley Creek now is, it is hard to imagine mills operated by waterpower along its banks in the early days of Elmsdale . Beryl (Costain) Momberg Coll. Douglas Rix and George Gallant blocking logs at Rix's mill 397 ^J