visitor “No boy, you’re in Souris West.” 
     
    

    
     38. Near the old Queen’s Whart in Souris West. 
     
    

    
     39. For over 20 years, the Kickham shipyard produced the famous lights. 
     
     The two and three-masted schooners all had “light” as part of their name 
     
     - the Minot’s Light, the Souris Light, the Arclight, the Twilight, the 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Sunlight, the Searchlight, the Silverlight, the Satellite, the Limelight and 
     
    
   
   
    
     the Delight. among others. 
     
    

    
     40. Brush and stone. 
     
    

    
     Al. A Drawbridge. 
     
    

    
     42. Hon. James R. MacLean (1842-1903). In the early 1890’s he 
     
     imported a special grass seed and had it planted to hold the shifting sands 
     
     along the causeway. 
     
    

    
     43. ~1832. A sub-collector of customs was appointed with an annual 
     
     salary of £ 61.00 
     
    

    
     44. Inthe 1830's he purchased a small wharf about a mile to the east of 
     
     ‘the entrance of the Souris River. To protect the wharf, he constructed a 
     
     breakwater, which succeeded in developing a major shipping port. 
     
    

    
     ‘45. 1849. It became later known as the Railway Wharf when the railway 
     
     came to Souris in 1875. 
     
    

    
     46. 1841. The Government marked the channel with two buoys. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     47. Haley built his factory in Souris at the end of the northeast corner 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the breakwater, just below the lighthouse. 
     
    

    
     48. “Axe-handle night” erupted near the Carlton Store on October 12, 
     
     1888. One man, a sailor named Strople, was killed when he ran from the 
     
     attack and forgot to turn the corner near the present day Centennial Park, 
     
     falling over the bank near Stone’s Wharf. 
     
    

    
     49. 105 years (1869-1974). 
     
    

    
     50. In Souris a workable telephone was connected from the home of 
     
     Lemuel, Robert and William Mellett to the residence of Caleb C. Carlton 
     
     Sr., soon after the invention of the instrument by Alexander Graham Bell. 
     
    
   
   
    
     /51. The railway was constructed to head towards the Queen’s Wharf at 
     
     Souris West. It angled down across the dunes with the terminus on the 
     
    
   
   
    
     beach. It was an impractical location, as the sand would drift on the tracks 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ and have to be swept off. The new station was constructed on Pond Street 
     
     _in the north-western part of the Town. 
     
    
   
   
    
     52. The W. B. Leard building at 80 Main Street. Waldron B. Leard had 
     
    
   
   
    
     la tailoring business on the ground floor, employing as many as eight people. 
     
    
   
   
    
     They made the first suit. If you didn’t pay for the suit, the second suit 
     
     would come from the tenants on the other half of the ground floor - two 
     
     lawyers...and Matthew and McLean’s stored your last suit on the third 
     
    
   
   
    
     floor - caskets. 
     
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