Ives’ Saw Mill about the end of the 19th century. Frances Roberts collection.

ties were built with lumber supplied by the Ives’ Upper Mills. During these years, the steam whistle blew at Ives’ Upper Mills six days a week at the hours of 7 a.m., 12 noon, 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. to summon the workmen to and from work. Each spring the saw and grist mills operated from dawn to dusk, making use of the spring freshet that flowed through the system.25

Thomas Ives died November 21, 1884, at the age of sixty, leaving the mills and property to his wife, MaryJane Wood Ives, and his nine Children: George, Cornelius Howatt, Oliver Edward, Isaac, Sarah, Eliza- beth, Charles, Georgina and Ida. The last three children were minors. The widow and the family relinquished their claim to the saw mill, and it was deeded to George Ives on December 27, 1884. The children who were of age sold their interest in the remaining estate to their mother, and Georgina did likewise when she became of age. Ida died at age twenty, leaving the estate in the possession of Mary Jane Ives and her son, Charles William Ives. The farm and grist mill were deeded to Charles on December 17, 1915.26

Charles Ives purchased one of the first rolling mills to be used on Prince Edward Island in 1902 from J.G. Gray and Co., Toronto, and installed it in his grist mill. He also installed a boiler and steam engine to supplement the water power. The rolling mill proved so popular that for a good many years it ran twenty—four hours a day grinding the wheat that came from as far away as the other side of Charlottetown into flour,

middlings, shorts and bran. Everett Ives, in an interview for the Char- lottetown Guardian on November 11, 1962, recalled that people of that

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