Remick and his sister, an elderly couple, and found them frozen to death, sitting by their empty stove. Diseases like diphtheria. appendicitis, and particularly tuber- culosis, took a heavy toll despite the efforts of country doctors. The sea also claimed many lives; older Souris residents recall, as children, walking the shallow waters off Souris beach on a dark, misty evening searching for the body of a young girl, Eileen Madore, who had drowned while swimming.

But most of those lost at sea were fishermen. The greatest such disaster in the history of Souris occurred in January, 1967, when the trawler Iceland II, driven by a wild Atlantic storm, grounded on the rocky Nova Scotia coast with the loss of all hands. Nine of the 10 crew members were Souris men -— Captain Tom Hodder, Mate Leslie (Tony) MacDonald, Chief Engineer Albert MacDonald, James Carter, Clarence Malone, Lee Jenkins, David O’Hanley, John Hendsbee, Clovis Gallant. The eleventh man, Reginald Foote, was from New-

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Dr. A.A. ("Gus") MacDonald made medical history when he sewed the feet back on a boy who had lost them in a farm accident. The operation was performed on a kitchen table in the boy’s home at St. Margaret’s. The boy, H.A. MacCormack, recovered and lived a normal life until his death as an elderly man several years ago. Dr. Gus practiced medicine in Souris for 60 years. He owed his education to his uncle, the Reverend Donald Francis MacDonald, the builder of St. Mary’s Church; in gratitude the young doctor chose to practice in Souris, where he was greatly beloved and is still remembered with affection.

The Matthew & MacLean lobster factory, shown here in an old photo- graph, stood on John Knight's wharf. Only part of the structure survives today.

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These fish drying flakes belonged to Matthew - MacLeanLtd., and stood ' ' above Breakwater Street. A barquentine-rigged ship photographed in Souris harbour.

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