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. An early Picture takep in 1920, of the original OslatOth cria:tnerY'ShOwa Ore.?, 00P10Yees
in front of the vats in the creamery workroom. Thia picture is also 0P file at the Dominion
Archives. From the left are Jack Hatham, Harry Hinchley, (who wrote the aCcOmpap/4#941
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c • An early picture of the exterior of We original Seaforth
Creamery, taken in 1918, Harry Hinckley, a Seaforth
native who started in the creamery business under Charlie
Barber a the Seaforth' Creamery has filed the 'original of the
picture in e Public Archives in Ottawa.
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CQNIGRAI-ULATION.
To Les Seiler
On the completion of renovations and
-enlargement of
Seaforth Creamery Ltd.
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Former partner
still assoeiated'
Ed Hallman to. whom Mr.Hin-
cheley refers in this storey was
associated with .Robert Bailey
while in Seaforth.
Mr. Bailey now is butihr ma-
nager with the brokerage firm of
Ron A. Chisholm in Toronto and
the Seaforth Creamery buys all
its butter through this company
as well as selling about 90% of
its dairy spread.
We are proud to have installed the
refrigeration for the plant '
Wilber Brown Electric
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Les. Seiler
on his decision to buy the Sea-forth Cream ery
Building and revive the Butter Business in Seaforth. -
is . "A REAL ASSET-TO THE TOWN"
We were pleased to have been a part of the building im-
provements by installing the plumbing, steam piping,
electrical service, heating and wiring requirements.
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years. Perhaps with the usual
foresight and good judgment that =-
.had been his over the years he =
could see the handwriting on the
So in 1946 when the chance
came he sold the Seaforth • 0.e•
Creamery to Ed Hallman. ,Ed =
ran it for a few years and then he =
sold it. After that it passed =
through the hands of other owners ...Ng
until before many years it met =
the fate of so many other crea-
merles in Ontario and the day was .10"
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merry siness made rapid
.strides no only in Ontario but
ball over C a. New creameries
were opene up in all parts of
the province and before many
years almost every town had a
creamery and some more. t
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Butter production went up r
pidly as more and more farme s
turned to 'milking sows and
separating cream MI" shipment
to. the creamery. The creameries
and the government worked to-
gether closely for the ?niprove-
ment of butter and new regulat-
ions were brought out to govern khe marketing of cream and
butter. Government grading of
butter was followed by grading of
cream and from 1925 on all cream
shipped to creameries had to be
bought on grade.
As more creameries opened
UP the whole industry became
much more competitive a's
farmers had more choice of
different creameries to patron-
ki&Ize. In order to be more attrac-
tive to shippers many creameries
tended to be moil accommodating
in their services to patrons.
Seaforth Creamery had long
followed the practice of paying
for cream by cheques which were
issued around the middle and the
end of each month. But in the
late 1920's Charlie Barber
changed the system to paying"
for every can in cash as soon as
the patron wished. A 'shipper
would bring in a can of cream and
as soon as it could be weighed
and tested the shipper could have
his money.
The patrons appreCiated this
prompt service and would often
bring a can of cream, get their
money and then take it up town
and use• it to buy their require-
ments at the stores. On Satur-
day nights, when the stores Med
to be open, farmers came from
far and wide 10 bring their cream
and get their money. At such
times the creamery was a busy
spot with cars lined up outside
waiting' to deliver their cans of
cream. Inside the building all
hands were on the rush to take in
the cream and let the patrons
be on 'their. way. Often on a
Saturday night in summer over
100 shippers would deliver cream
in a few hours.
The setting sun
In the 1940's, it was harder
to run a creamery and every
year it seemed to get tougher.
This was to be expected during
the war but even after the war
was over things did not seem to
become any easier„ Wartime
scarcities still prevailed -and it
was difficult or sometimes
'impossible to buy badly. needed
trucks or other equipment. The
government , was passing more
regulations and more and more
controls seemed to be coming
all the time.
By 1946 Charlie Barber was
beginning to feel that he had been
in the creamery business long
enough. The best years of his
life had been spent in the butter
industry and • he had played an
important part in its growth and
development. He had now reached
the time when he could look pack
with some satisfaction at his
accomplishments over the years.
Moreover he had reached en
age when many men retire and
this seemed like a good time to
get out when he was still active
enoukh to enjoy life for a few more
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He also made his contribution ono'
to the life of Seaforth. He was *"'"
always reedy to help with any
project for cothinUnity better- 7,4•
gent an d gaVe freely of his
time and ability on countless "I'm
boards and committees when =
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Charlie flarber had been a a
good citizen. He ran a good
creamery. He gave good service=
to, hundreds of cream shippers =
over the long years when he was. =
operating. And he made his 1440.
contribution to the great Dairy = -
Industry.
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