[New] A Glimpse At Vermilion In 1914

and it had a power plant that powered over 1,000 lights in the community, as well as a telephone system and a school that cost $40,000 to build and had five teachers inside. The government had also built a $50,000 immigration hall to handle the influx of immigrants to the area.

As a distributing centre, Vermilion was doing good business. Over $175,000 in farming implements had been sold to farmers in the area and the money orders going through the post office amounted to $72,000, which included the purchase of almost 500 cars for locals.

The brick factory in town was able to produce 1.5 million bricks each year, and the flour mill produced upwards of 6,000 barrels of flour, at a rate of 125 barrels per day.

At the time, Vermilion also had three large department stores, four general stores, two hardware stores, two furniture stores, two tinsmiths, one machine ship, one harness shop and two blacksmith shops.

The Craig Brothers department store in town was also one of the largest general stores found west of Winnipeg and east of Vancouver.

As for the shipment of livestock, that doubled from 1913 to 1914 and one buyer of $150 cows made $700 in profit, which amounts to about $17,649 today.

The shipment of hogs was up 30 per cent over the previous year as well.

For dairy, 10,636 pounds of milk were produced in 1914 in the area.