GOIN ’ TO THE CORNER

Monday, November 3, 1953 around

10:00 pm. the garage/service sta— ‘ ELMSDALE SERVICE STATION

tion was destroyed by fire and a car belonging to Vernon Hardy was in H. L. ADAMS, Prop. the garage at the time and burned. .

When the fire was noticed the . flames had reached such an ad- WHITE ROSE ...... Products & Service vanced stage in the one-story struc— Gas m Oil

ture, that it was thought useless to send for help in AlbertOn. By May 1954 Howard had purchased the Electric and Acetylene Welding. land where the prev1ous garage was General Repairs.

from Hanson Oliver, and built a ' new garage’ Appearing in the AlbertonMuseumColl. Elmsdale notes of the Journal-Pio-

neer July 1954, it is noted that the newly built service station was now doing busi- ness and was an asset to the thriving community. Howard continued to sell White

Rose gasoline. In August 1958 there was another change when Howard sold his

service station to brothers Robert and Ross MacWilliam.

Robert and Ross MacWilliam - When the MacWilliam brothers took over the service station they enlarged the work area by taking the three-bay garage and con- verting it to two bays. ‘

Journal-Pioneer April 14, 1959 — Fire Guts Oil Depot, Damages Service Sta. In West Prince Village — An oil company storage depot and pumping station was gutted and a service station heavily damaged in a fire at Elmsdale yesterday afternoon. The depot is owned by the Canadian Oil Company and the service station by Robert and Ross MacWilliam of the West Prince village. The flames which originated as a grass fire had made good headway by the time the Alberton Fire Department arrived on the scene, but firemen were able to bring the blaze under control before it destroyed the service station. While firemen were fighting the blaze, neighbours assisted Robert and Ross MacWilliam, owners of the service station in removing all stock and equipment. An expanding gas valve cracked under pressure and sent a 11/2‘inch piece of metal sailing through the front window of a house owned by Leonard Barnett, about 100 yards from the scene of the blaze. No one was injured, but the metal

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