
After his death in 1902, the mill burned down but was replaced in less than 5 months with the building you see here today (currently the Visual Arts Centre). MacKay’s daughter married James Morden who took over running the mill and focused its efforts on marketing Cream of Barley cereal. The product was wildly successful, due in great part to Morden’s marketing, and was produced into the 1950s. It eventually lost market share to ready to eat cold cereals.