Incorporated in O'Leary . He moved to O'Leary that same year and within two years started what was to become one of the most suc¬ cessful businesses in the area. In 1953 he and his son Orville bought a warehouse from Harold Jelley who had previously used the ware¬ house to store furniture. They renovated the building and installed the proper equipment in it to start in the potato dealing business. In later years they bought a warehouse from Claude MacNeill and one from the O'Leary Co-op. Both of these were renovated and expanded. As the business began to flourish, they entered into the potato growing business. In 1963 their acreage was about seventy acres. Later their acreage increased to four hundred acres. In 1982 Charles Willis died, but his son who had been an active member of the business from its beginning, continued to manage the operation. Over the years the business enlarged a great deal. C.F. Willis and Sons Produce were considered potato growers and dealers with fifty percent of the operation being devoted to the growing of potatoes, and the remaining fifty percent to handling and shipping of potatoes bought from local producers for export. The business also dealt in fertilizer on a large scale and was involved in the dealership of insecticides. In 1986 this business became known as Potato Packers Ltd . with Orville Willis as manager. In 1987 the warehouse was com¬ pletely renovated and modernized. In 1948 Dan Smallman and his son Brenton went into partner¬ ship and built a potato warehouse at the Canadian National Railway iding. The warehouse was underground. Potatoes were stored in the asement and the upper part was used for grading and office space. Dan and Brenton carried on an extensive business buying and elling potatoes both for the local and export market. They were rowers of fine quality seed; hence their product found a ready sale - is far away as Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Seven or eight men were employed in the warehouse during the eak season. These men loaded, unloaded, graded and bagged the otatoes in ten, fifty, one hundred and sometimes one hundred fifty ound bags. No storage bins were provided except for their own otatoes. A pick-up service aided the farmers in getting their produce o O'Leary . Annie Smallman was an important asset to this business She did he office work. When potatoes were being harvested, a cook house as hauled from field to field. Here she and Verna (Smallman) illigan did the cooking for their employees - sometimes as many as thirty-two for one meal. 285