05/28/2026
Proud to have this legendary business in our community!
There's a general store five miles north of Lucknow that scoops more ice cream in a summer than most parlours sell in a decade.
Locals call it the Miller Mall.
Allan and Lucy Miller bought the place back in the 1980s mostly to keep the local post office alive. They'd been running a tiny shop out of an old schoolhouse down in Langside, heard the Holyrood building was sitting empty, asked if they could buy it, and the answer was yes. Decades later, a sale to new owners, and it's still going strong. Still the most famous corner store in Bruce County.
The ice cream is the headline. A double scoop for a few bucks, served on a cone the size of your forearm. They go through 1,834 tubs of ice cream a year. That's around 40,000 cones. The record day was Victoria Day 2015 when they scooped 757 of them. 15-plus flavours rotating through.
The rest of the store is what a general store is supposed to be. Post office in the back. Fishing licence counter. Bulk flour and oatmeal for the Old Order Mennonite families who pull up in horse and buggies. Hardware. Farm supplies. As one regular puts it, "If they don't have it, you don't need it."
Open 7am to 10pm, seven days a week. No reservations. No fancy website. Just go.
825 Bruce Road 1, Holyrood. Bring a cooler if you're heading back the long way.
Full story in this week's GB Buzz. Link in comments.
