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Courtesy Pictures of the Put by Innis. The Stone Hotel

over the bank at the back of the house injuring his arm which had to be amputated later. He, of course, did not go to sea.“

Post Office:

Few people are aware that Souris has an interesting, self-appointed pub- lic relations man. In 1965, the Guardian branch office manager in Souris passed a letter addressed to the newspaper on to George A. Leard. It was from Edouard R. Souris of Toronto, requesting information about the Town name, similar to his own. George replied, telling him that it had been so named by the French in 1741 and that there was a Souris East and Souris

West, each with a post office at one time. When the Town requested the postal authorities to have the “East” dropped,they refused, because there was already a Souris Post Office in Manitoba.

Mr. Souris, a native of Antwerp, Belgium, and now a film editor with CTV in Toronto, has made a hobby of visiting places all over the world with variations of the word Mouse. He has found 60 in all, towns, rivers, valleys, parks and hills in France, Belgium, Madagascar and other places including an island in the Indian Ocean. He visited Souris in the summer of 1966. On his return, he wrote to Canada Post describing the beauties of the Island. He pointed out that the word “east” is not on the Federal Building nor is it used by the residents of the Island. He requested that, as a Centennial Project,