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This Grammar School continued until c. 1900 when the new Souris High School was built on the corner ofChurch and Pond Streets on the same lot as Colville School, combining the two schools in one. As A.B. Warburton said in his article on consolidation in the Vol. III, May, 1902 issue of Prince Edward Island Magazine: “In Souris this (consolidation) has already, in a small way, been done...united two schools into one single large one.”

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Souris High School — Grades I-VIII - 1920-21

Back Row L—R: Kempis Deighan, Chester O‘Donnell, Johnnie Townshend.

Second Row: Gus Malone, Jack MacEwen, Unknown, Jack Brennan.

Third Row: Unknown, Marshall Paquet, Unknown, Roy White, Walter Ryan, Joe Clinton, Reggie Buffet, Brenton St. John, John Malone, Gerard Pettipas, Unknown, John D. MacIntyre, Frank Cheverie, John D. Paquet, Unknown, Ambrose MacIn- tyre, Hugh MacIsaac, Unknown, Unknown, Ronnie Cheven'e, Raymond Leard, George MacEachern, Unknown, Cahill Cheverie.

Fourth Row: Harry Poole, Hudson Poole, Unknown, Unknown, Earl Paquet, Gregory Clinton, Emery White, Emmett Donahoe, Irene Buffett, Isobel Brown, Annie Ding- well, Mary Poole.

Fifth Row: Unknown, Orrin Creamer, Unknown, Unknown, George Cheverie, Leslie Currie, Unknown, Olga White, Celia Dingwell, Elizabeth Macdonald, Bertha Poole, Lottie Gillam, Christie MacKenzie, Mary Gillam, Edith Green, Lucretia MacKenzie, Annie Bushey, Mildred Poole, Gladys MacKenzie, Florence Green, Hilda Bushey, Unknown, Unknown, Johnnie Creamer.

Sixth Row: Eugene Lewis, Unknown, Elzio Pettipas, Unknown, Louis Meurant, Gordon Poole, Urban Cheverie, Joe Sweeney, Lester O'Donnell, Melvin McQuaid, Unknown, Michael Cheverie, John Sweeney, Unknown, Alphonsus Clinton, Un- known, Unknown, Unknown, Roddie MacIntyre, Unknown, Unknown.

Seventh Row: Unknown, Joe Gallant.

The Colville School, which remained on the same location, was turned into the Town Hall and Fire Station. The Agricultural Hall, in later years, was hauled to a new location on north Main Street about opposite the present day Liquor Store, and used for a time as a store. It was torn down later by Dr. Alfred Smallwood and the lumber used to build his home.

St. Mary’s Convent School, mentioned earlier, was to have a profound influence on the Town for nearly a century. Under the guidance of the