In 1929 the O'Leary Produce Company built the first frost-free warehouse where the Co-op warehouse now stands. This company was a combined effort of William MacAulay, Sanford Phillips, Perley MacNeill and Gordon Adams. Perley MacNeill was the manager and Peter Bulger was the secretary. Fire destroyed the company's ware- house in the late fall of 1933.

Before the fire, Kennedy’s had a warehouse and the manager was William Kennedy. At the same time Henry Willis Turner, James MacWilliams, and Vernon Matthew had a warehouse. The fire started in Art Bell’s warehouse, formerly owned by Vernon Matthew, then the fire spread towards the south, destroying the shed from the Kennedy warehouse but sparing the Ellis warehouse which was later owned by Claude MacNeill and then Charles Willis.

Ray MacNeill and Bill Ellis hauling lumber for potato warehouse (1934).

That fall, potatoes had been $1.25 per bushel. However, some farmers such as Charles Ellis, John Yeo, Robert England, Avard Harris and others who had potatoes stored there, did receive $0.48 per bushel from the insurance of Sanford Phillips who dealt with the Associated Shippers in Charlottetown.

In 1934 Mr. Phillips opened a new warehouse. Claude MacNeill came from the States about that time and worked there also (he had about one year to live according to the doctors in that country). Peter Bulger was still bookkeeper.

The lumber was sawed in MacNeill’s sawmill which they had bought from Clark’s. It was situated across from the location of the

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