130 Community ■ourtesy Pictures of the Past by LeardB. Baseball Team, 1911. William J. MacDonald , later Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island , from the left - coach. sixth Fortune and France. The remaining settlers of origin were proba¬ bly strangers to each other as well. They visited back and forth helping each other, exchanging ideas, rejoicing together in good times and sharing sorrow in sickness or disaster. They became a small community interested in each other's welfare. Their sociability, of course, had a wider scope. The Acadians had friends and relatives at Souris West and the settlers similar connections on the North Shore of the Island. To be sure, life was difficult at times but never dull. When the day's work was done and the candles lit, neighbours gathered to talk of the day's events: Yankee schooners in at the spring for fresh water, a ship on the River nearly completed. They could look forward to a launching party. Charlie Bushey would be there with his fiddle. They had a great ability to enjoy simple pleasures: an evening spent with friends singing songs in French or Gaelic depending on where they were and who was supplying the music, or listening to tales of the Old Country. To their children born in early Souris , these must have been fascinating stories. In later years, as the settlements grew larger, there was a need for a different type of entertainment to raise money for special community needs. The old Court House which stood on was an imposing looking building with high cement basement walls containing the jail cells. It was used for public meetings, concerts and entertainments of all kinds for a long time. There was great consternation in 1883 when it was made known in the press that it was no longer available to the public. "Who owns it