Trade and Commerce Courtesy Pictures of the Past by Leards. The Souris River near its entrance into the Gulf of St. Lawrence . This picture is from Vol. 15 of The Book of History, pub'd. by the Gooler Society, 1915. There are several hand tinted post cards of this scene in Souris today. A look at the 1863 map of Souris West will show that Souris West in the 1870s was on its way to becoming a well established and prosperous com¬ munity. Streets had been surveyed and named, there was a forge, store and post office, a hotel (The New Dominion ) and a schoolhouse on the west side of the River. And, strangely enough to those of us today who are familiar with the area around Bridge, there was room for Moynagh's store to the north of the bridge and no less than nine property lots on the south side with the terminal of the newly built railway ending on . Surely this was an important community with a great future. What hap¬ pened? The answer lies in the name, even at this time prominent on the map, of Knight whose story will be told in the history of Souris East in Lot 45.