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The Shed Building - this two storey structure, with heavy sliding doors, once served as a garage for the trucks that collected the cream from farmers, between 1925 and the 1980's..

Until the changes in farming practise took place, and cream was no longer the main product of the area, the trucks had several routes to follow two or three times a week, collecting the cream cans from the many small farms and returning the empties. The cans were unloaded here and after emptying were sterilized and then reloaded in 'farm order' for easy drop off along the routes. Every farmer had a number which was painted in red on his cans.
Much work has been carried out in this building. The second floor needed to have strong supports to house the surplus artifacts for the Heritage Centre. It held a large amount of rubbish accumulated over the years, which had to be sorted through before disposal. Shelves were built to take the artifacts, but some work is still needed on these to identify and label them correctly. Time to do this is restricted by extreme heat in summer and cold in winter. Experts have been called in to identify large collections of old tools and assorted bottles.....there are the broken remains of old looms and spinning wheels, furniture and assorted objects, the origins and donators of which are unknown.

There is talk of taking part of the storage area and creating an art studio - for teaching purposes. This will mean another re-organising of the stored artifacts, but such a room could be useful for any kind of class visit. - provided everyone can manage the stairs!

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Equipment in the Shed building
21st Century. 2002
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia Canada


Credits:
Creamery Square Project Office

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Downstairs too held a vast amount of material varying from a large number of wood and metal stacking chairs -(many broken) shabby furniture, desks, bookcases, display cases, timber, paint cans, old wheel barrows and broken implements and pieces of creamery equipment as seen here. The floor was uneven and the walls drafty. Everything was cleared out - 'good' stuff stored upstairs- then construction began, starting with a new floor.

There being insufficient space in the new Heritage Centre, large,important pieces of equipment from the Creamery were accepted by the Museum of Industry in New Glasgow, and thereby saved from destruction.

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Work on the Shed building
21st Century. 2008
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia Canada


Credits:
Creamery Square Project Office

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Today on the ground level there are two sets of washrooms( complete with showers and lockers for those wishing to kayak on the river); there is a small shop, behind that is a store for outdoor equipment, and the last garage bays are now a very well equiped boat building shed.


An outside staircase was added ,leading to the top floor and acts as a fire escape.

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Creamery Square
5 October 2009
Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia Canada


Credits:
Creamery Square Heritage Society

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Taken from the top of the Grain Elevator, this shows the original positions of the older buildings the exception being the Farmers' Market - the red building in the foreground, which was built in 2005
The Creamery became the property of the village, together with the Shed Building but for a while the other structures were still in use by Scotsburn but with the possibility of the deeds being handed over at a later date.

The vegetation along the river bank was partly cleared so that stunning views became available. looking down the Waugh River to Tatamagouche Bay.