Wellhead Flare: Raw natural gas is flared off to reduce the pressure to the point where it could be controlled with the methods and equipment available in those days and sent on to the Turner Valley processing plant.

The first Millarville store and post office were located in Malcolm Millar's ranch house on his homestead about eight kilometers east of the present site. This was the only store in the region and it served as a trading post for the Indians who sold or exchanged their furs and buckskins for various trade goods.

After Millar retired as store keeper in 1910, W.W. King had a store built on the hillside above his ranch buildings, less than a kilometer from present day Millarville. In 1911, the post office was also moved from Millar's ranch to the new King building. In 1916 Humphrey Twist took over the store but soon sold it as a “going concern” to Forward and Walton. Unfortunately this building burned about 1948. Luckily the post office had been moved before the fire to Norman Pegler's store that had been built in 1926 on its present site.

The Peglers had arrived in the Millarville district in 1926 when they bought a small acreage and put up the general store. After 1941, when the post office was moved, mail came in from Calgary three times a week. The oil boom had reached north from Turner Valley to Millarville and at the end of their eighteen years here, the Peglers sold out to Jappy Doughlass, a grandson of Malcolm Millar.

Throughout the forties, the population of Millarville expanded and the store reaped the benefits. Douglass first added a coffee shop and then moved the McFarland Lumber Yard Office from High River and attached it to the store. The Millarville boom, like all others, was destined to collapse. Through succeeding years, the store had many owners, but was able to survive basically intact, despite the pronounced tendency of owners to move their dwelling or business establishments when they relocated.