Industries

RED MG 41
Fonds
1887-2000

Fonds consists of administrative, financial, operational, and promotional material created, accumulated, and used by the Markerville Creamery in its activities as a creamery and as a tourist site.

Types of records include bills, invoices, receipts, reports, correspondence, envelopes, stationary, cheques, pamphlets, instructions, coupons, newspaper clippings, notebooks, tables, photographs, employment records, notebooks, inventories, and butter wrappers.

Markerville Creamery

At the cook house door at R. J. Ferguson & P. J. Mullen camp, West Pigeon Lake, Alberta.

MIL A42.1-is-mil-1-356
Item
1910

Part of Millet and District Historical Society Photograph Collection

Construction of Kerr agricultural machinery shop.

MIL A42.1-190.02.29
Item
Copied [ca. 1978] (originally created [1946]).

Part of Millet and District Historical Society Photograph Collection

Photo shows the construction of the Kerr Building, corner of Main Street and 49 Avenue. Mr. Kenneth Kerr Sr. and sons Stewart and Kenneth Jr. sold Cockshutt farm machinery in this building for many years. K. Kerr Sr. died in 1963. Stewart Kerr then ran the business until it was sold. The Co-op had a store here, and Mo Jo Automotives is still here. Earl Anderson (Joe Anderson), owner of Mo Jo now owns the building.

Rowley's Lumber Yard.

MIL A42.1-190.02.17
Item
[between 1912 and 1917].

Part of Millet and District Historical Society Photograph Collection

Picture shows two men posing with team and wagon load of lumber in lumber yard. Bill Johnson is driving and Oliver Van Voorhis is standing at the back of the wagon. Rowley's Lumber Yard was located east of the CPR tracks and north of Highway 616. Now an industrial area, the area was the sports ground from the 1930s to the 1960s.