A creamery was almost essential in the towns back then. Having a creamery in your town was not only good business for the town, it was a real boost to the farmer.
The farmers had a lot of cream to sell and no refrigerated trucks to haul it with. They had to load up their cream cans onto a horse drawn wagon and haul it to town, and on a hot summer day the poor horses would have to go at a good pace to get the cream there in good condition.
A lot of the small towns would have their own creameries. Spondin had one, and of course Coronation had a fairly large plant going. The finished products would be sold to the stores in town and some would be sent by train to other centres.
What surprised me was the amount of products these small creameries would manufacture. An article in the September 1916 Review gave me some idea of how much they did.
September 21, 1916:
The Coronation Creamery Co. will locate their new plant just south of the Northern Lumber Co. One car load of machinery to be installed arrived last week.
The company will be able to handle 5000 pounds of butter daily when the new plant is ready for business.
Yes, that is 5000. I counted the zeros three times.

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