Much of the Fraser land was purchased by J.B. Little & Sons brick company. Little had been in business just north of the sawmill since 1893; and his descendents continued the brick-making operation until 1958, when they converted to a distribution company for brick made by the IXL automated plant in Medicine Hat.
J.B. Little company activities vacated Riverdale in 1971, though the family continued to live both in J.B.'s little brick house, still preserved in the midst of The Brickyard development, and other houses in Riverdale.
For a number of years the brickyard sat as an empty field. The carved-out depression made from clay-mining activities was filled with material excavated from the Canada Place site; and the land was finally sold to IGL for housing development. Construction started in 2001.
