Summerside's War Effort During WWII

Related Memories
(Gasoline and Rubber)

Lorne Cousins served in the navy during the war. He remembers the day that he came into Summerside from his parents' home in Breadalbane and decided to attend a movie at the Capitol. When he came out, he discovered that someone had siphoned the gasoline from the family car. He was quite irked, to say the least.
Submitted: December 2004

Lowell Huestis remembers with fondness going on fishing trips during the wartime period to places like Tryon, Scales Pond, or Bonshaw with his paternal grandparents. This was possible because his grandfather had a B category rating for gasoline rations. Jess Huestis worked for the Joseph Read Company and was in charge of coal deliveries from the warehouse near Water Street West.
Submitted: April 2005

Windsor Corney 's father and uncle owned the Corney Brothers service station on Water Street. The vulcanizing of tires was a big business during the war years. Windsor recalls as a young teenager watching his father repair tires. The electric vulcanizing system was able to cure the rubber sections that were used to replace any worn or damaged pieces that had to be cut out of old tires. Another electric machine could make new treads on the rubber. The garage had a single large service section and was always busy.
Submitted: January 2005

Gerard Dalton remembers making deliveries from his father's drugstore on the English bicycle that they owned. Many other retailers used bikes for making deliveries around town, including the grocery store at the corner of Central and Church Streets. Their delivery man was nicknamed "Freddie Mouse" and Gerard always went out of his way to avoid him.
Submitted: January 2005