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Hello historians the empty store was actually a mecanics garage and post office in Nemoscam Ab. In my younger days it was run by Mr.Earl Hoibak as mecanic and his wife and her mother ran the post office out of the south end of this same building.I believe Earl also delivered farm fuels later as well.I was friends with their son Kenneth as well. There was a store a larger building about a block east of this garage and Post Office. My dad bought part of this large Nemiscam General Store and had Joseph Kerner move it to our farm near Hoping and Faith Alberta in the 1960s. I have some of the unused Receipt books in my possesion in perfect shape from the old store which we made into a storage shed on our farm. After Mr Hoibak passed away his wife remarried a Carl Gyorki who sold fuel thru a UFA outlet across the street from the Garage. They also continued living in the house in Nemiscam at the time.I later purchased the UFA warehouse and moved it to my farm as well and its still there since the 1970s and is in service as a shed as well. We hauled grain to Nemiscam as well as there were 3 elevators in town and I remember the trains coming in and stopping with mail and parcels as well as passengers on the traincar as well back in the 1950s. They also pulled loaded grain cars and returned with empty ones to be filled from these elevators.We were friends with The Newell Mann family at AP Grain elevator and they always milked cows and sold cream etc.Henry Muellor ran the Alberta Wheat pool there as well. I believe there was a UGG elevator there as well maybe ran by George Roth. Not sure of all spellings so my apologies.I remember a line up of trucks from across the tracks east of town all the way to elevators and if you got 3 loads of grain in a day hauled that was a big day. And when a quota opened up and you had room it was a very important day. People slowly moved up truck after truck sometimes took an hour to get in and dump. I hauled there as a young farmer and so did my dad back in the day. Others that lived in town were the Halvorsons, Raricks, Jerry Sales, Gerald and Shirley Douglas,Muellers Hank and Violet,Ken and kim Kultgen Jr, Ashley Butterwick,Les and Fay Ohara some seasonal Duck and deer hunters from Great Falls Mt., and others that I forgot names from. Barry Hurt and a Mr Berger,,Ken Baldwin also ran elevators there years ago as well as others I have forgotten.

Empty store in Nemiscam Alberta.jpgNemiscam as I remember it.

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