creamery

noun, 1. a factory producing butter and cheese, 2. a shop where milk, cream, etc. are sold; a dairy (COD)

“We milked the cows here and went to the creamery and factory and did that whole thing, you know.”

“Pretty near every week you went to get your cheque for the cream from the creamery anyways, so you didn’t have far to go to get the meat you had in there either.”

“I used to take it to Kingston to the creamery where they had lockers over there.”

“We were just sending to the creamery at that time, and then it would, you know, cream would keep quite awhile.”

“I was kind of fortunate when you think about it, because like my dad, well two or three times a week, he’d be taking whey-cream to the 1:00 boat for to ship to the creamery in Kingston.”

“Did you take your milk to Wolfe Island?”
“No, we, had cream. We separated it and shipped it to Kingston, to the creamery in Kingston. We only took it over- well in the summertime you had to take it over a couple times a week, but in the winter it kept pretty well in the winter. You took it over whenever you could.”

“They had what they call- well, it was just lockers. A big freezing compartment. And it was all- oh, there’d be about maybe two feet by two foot square or maybe three feet long. With a door on it. And you could rent them from the creamery.”

“We were waiting, all of us waiting, and Dad he would always- coming home from work, would stop at the creamery and pick up his cheque.”

“I think they mostly used the creamery when they milked cows.”