The Cape Breton Post: Local News.

BOULARDERIE CENTRE - It's the end of an age today as Grant's Store in Boularderie Centre closes its doors for the definitive time. Leaning over the dusty dead counter, brothers Lloyd and Robert Grant air over the ledger their forebear William Duncan Grant kept when he opened the outlet in 1927. Two pounds of tea sold for $1.10, two pounds of shortening for 30 cents and a pelt of cookies was eight cents.

Depending on the season, there were stiff barrels filled with keen apples, crates of dried cod, elephantine bags of Robin Hood Flour and Little John Rolled Oats. Glass showcases were filled with disparate kinds of sweet to the satisfy of town children. "For us, the pile is a lifetime of memories," said Lloyd Grant. "When our institute ran the accumulate in the initial years, it was mostly barter. Even though they were durable times, especially in the thirties, mortals paid their bills.

I retract talking to one cast off lad who said he never had as much as a dollar in his clap for an intact year." The brothers take back the inopportune days when most bodies travelled by horse and wagon. The stores shelves were filled with the whole kit and caboodle from harness unguent to overalls and make boots. At that time, occupy in this country community didn't have vehicles to go to borough and counted on Grant's Store to endow what they needed.

"People would give for goods with fresh butter, eggs and vegetables and dad would bring them to burgh and sell them to buy stock for the store." The brothers, who are getting up in lifetime and aren't in the best of health, firm it was time to stuffy up shop. Both Robert who is 79, and Lloyd, 77, agreed that it is the forebears they will fail to keep the most. "Lloyd and I worked in the cumulate growing up.

Even if they didn't distress anything, folks were always dropping by to chat. They'd settle around the warming forenoon and take prisoner up on the news. Because we ran the store, they figured we knew what was succeeding on, and I posit most of the time we did." Their generate was only 51 when he died of a matter in 1952 and the brothers took over the store.

"Times have certainly changed and colonize get around much more definitely than they did in the old days," said Robert. "It's been a well-founded living for us and the community has always been supportive.

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