2 Early Footprints The 1744 map of Sieur de la Roque names the bay, Havre a la Souris . The 1758 British map calls it Mouse . Still later in 1764, Samuel Holland gave it the name after Alexander, 7th Lord Colville of Culross, who a year earlier had been given command of the station extending from Quebec round to Florida and the Bahamas.1 The name remains to this day. There were still other names given to the area. Alan Rayburn , in Geogra¬ phical Names of Prince Edward Island ,2 lists Grand Haven but gives no reference to its source. would have been a haven for ships from a north easterly wind but not from a southerly before the breakwater was extended with the first government grant in 1877. It is possible, however, that the Gloucester fleets which crowded into the Bay before a storm in the mid 1800s may have called it Grand Haven. In the early 1800s, John Cambridge , then part owner of Lot 44, brought out artisans from England and settled them on Souris River to work in his shipyard. He called the place New Bristol after his home in England at that time. There are a few newspaper references to the area by that name.' The five hundred acres of land in Lot 45 on which the Town of Souris was later built was sold at a tax sale in 1824 to William Johnston of Charlotte- town and given the name "Red Cliffs".4 This name was never in general use. We know from early ledgers that place names frequently changed. was called Crooked River at one time. When the railway came east, the station at St. Charles was called . The name Souris was not used very much in early records. Souris West was then called the or Ferry, and Souris East was usually referred to as . It was only after post offices were established that place names stabilized. Micmac: The first human footprints on our Island soil belonged to the Indian, as recent archaeological findings prove. These prints were made as long as 10,600 years ago.5 Following the retreating ice age, over twenty-five thousand years ago, these early people moved onto this continent from Asia and, over a long period of time, changed and adapted to the conditions as they found them. They moved in harmony with the ever changing environment as the ice slowly receded. The Eskimo to the north learned to live and enjoy life in a harsh land of ice and snow. Others, like the ancestors of the Micmac, travelled south along the Pacific seaboard, eventually spreading across States, up the seaboard and finally into the area of the Maritime Provinces. These first inhabitants have been given the name Paleo-Indian. A Folson or Clovis spearpoint used by these people was found at Basin Head, about five miles east of Souris .6 This was a rare find as little is known about these Indians who hunted caribou and other big game. A spearpoint found by Aage Sorensen of North Tryon thirty-five years ago and recently brought to the attention of David L. Keenlyside , a noted archaeologist, has been identified as also belonging to these first Paleo-Indians.7 The Paleo-Indians were followed by what are called the Shellfish People who relied mainly on shellfish, birds and small animals for food. These, in turn, were replaced by a group, the ancestors of our present