Community 111 school on Souris River may have been in the home of Edmund Shea and been abandoned when Shea moved to teach in other schools. In 1863, a last sad note: a petition to the Assembly of Edmund Shea , aged and infirm, former teacher, seeking financial help.62 The Royal Gazette of July 1, 1851 records the visit of John Ross to the Souris area. At , James Mclnnis had 30 pupils. At Souris West , Priscilla Logan had 30 pupils in a new school opened in March. This was the school built to replace one used as a hospital during the smallpox epidemic of 1849 and later burned by order of the Board of Health. The government had supplied a grant of ten pounds towards its replacement.63 Courtesy Picture* of the Past by Leards. John Knight 's wharf and home. The white building behind the schooner is Knight's Private School, thought to be the first school in Souris . John Ross apparently inspected only one school in Souris where teacher, John Sweeney , had 30 pupils. He reported: "Souris School built since I reported last. A commodious well lighted house has been recently erected in this district in which a school has been in successful operation during this past winter. Subjects taught: reading, writing and arithmetic."6'1 This must have been Colville School, erected on the west side of , south of where the railway would later pass. If so, it was 39 feet by 23 feet and used for many years as a Primary School. In 1883, this school was moved to the west side of a 100 foot square of land bounded on the north by the railway fence, on the east by and on the south and west by land owned by the vendor, Amelia Knight .65 The reports of the school visitors to the eastern and western parts of the Province were contained in the July 27,1866 edition of the Supplement to the Islander .66 Here, School Visitor John Arbuckle said, "Grammar school needed at Souris ..." A visit there showed 67 pupils in one school, L. Mclnnis , teacher in charge and, no doubt one or more teachers on staff. A detailed account showed 90 young people between the ages 5 to 16 in the Souris area, over twenty of them not in school. In 1871, School Visitor John McSwain , said in his report that a grammar school had been established in Souris four years earlier. From this we can assume that Souris Grammar School began c. 1867.67 At first, according to a Souris River resident, the Grammar School classes were held in the upper floor of the Agricultural Hall.68 In 1878, tenders were