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Chapter I - Early Footprints

‘ R. Douglas, Place Names of Prince Edward Island With Meanings, Ottawa King's Printer, 1925, p. 19.

7 Alan Rayburn, Geographical Names of Prince Edward Island,Toponymy Study 1, Ottawa: Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, 1973, p. 115.

3 Prince Edward Island Register, March 13, 1827 lists John Burke and John Chaisson as fence viewers at New Bristol and Rollo Bay.

4 Land Register, Public Archives, Charlotte town, Prince Edward Island, Liber 31, folio 168.

SOURIS NAME - A LEGEND (By C. Roy White)

Maybe during the early 1700’s, or before, many years previous to the fall of Louis- burg (1748), “New France” (Lower Can- ada), now the Province of Quebec, sent their “coureurs de peche” (fishermen), during the summer months to take from the sea the harvest of the “deep blue" —FISH.

One of the bases, or harbours of the French fishermen was at what is now Red Head Harbour at the north end of St. Peter's Bay. From there various excur- sions were made inland. During the course of one of these excursions, the “coureurs” ventured much to the east south east. Lo and behold, they came out of the woods at the top of what is now known as Souris West hilltop. The panorama at which they gazed in almost reverent silence—a land- locked harbour, shoals and sand beach, with an ideal river flowing seaward. ALL THEY COULD HAVE HOPED—THERE! They paused, and the leader of the group noting their expression exclaimed: “Vous avez la sourire!" (You have the smile). (Sourire, pronounced soo-ri, SOURIS). Thus naming what they saw: Le Havre a la Sourire—Smiling Harbour, the Harbour of Smiles.

And that, as the legend indicates is the origin of the name of the Town of SOURIS.

Micmac:

5 David L. Keenlyside, “‘Ulus” and Spear- points,’ Two New Archaeological Finds from Prince Edward Island. The Island Magazine, XVI, (Fall-Winter 1984), p. 26.

5 John H. Maloney, M.D., “And in the Beginning...", Canada's Smallest Pro- vince, ed. Francis W.P. Bolger, 1973, John Deyell Company, p. 2.

7 Keenlyside, p. 26.

3 Ibid., p. 27.

9 Maloney, p. 3.

‘0 Leard Papers by George A. Leard on microfilm at Public Archives, Prince Ed- ward Island, Accession 2323. Reel 4, Gowan Brae in index.

” Ibid.

‘2 Abraham Gesner’s Report to the Journal of the House of Assembly, 1847, Appendix D. Alexander Leslie, who was Justice of the Peace for many years, came to Souris in 1834. fiom any information available, it appears that his collection of native artifacts was sold to an American.

'3 Leard Papers, Reel 5, Indians.

1‘ L.F.S. Upton, “Indians and Islanders”, Acadiensis, Autumn 1976. University of Prince Edward Island Library. p. 21.

French and Acadian:

‘5 Quotation from Jacques Cartier's diary translated from Portuguese to French by Hakluyt. The words are inscribed in both English and French on a cairn erected on Queen Square, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, in Cartier’s honour in 1934.

“5 Lorne C. Callbeck, The Cradle of Confed- eration, (Brunswick Press, Fredericton, N.B., 1964). p.19.

‘7 Census 1729, Sieur de la Roque.

“3 John Caven, “Old St. Jean”, The Prince Edward Island Magazine, September 1902, p. 239. John Caven gives excerpts from a book by Thomas Pichon about Cape Breton and St. John's Island published in Lon- don, 1760. Pichon was secretary to the Governor of Louisbourg. He was also an English spy. See Leard Papers, Reel 8, Pichon.