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before Prowse Bros. but they failed in business.

‘3 Land Register Liber 34 folio 828, Liber 36 folio 618, and Liber 40 folio 566.

‘3 Unpublished manuscript of Randy Chev- erie, “Matthew & McIean Limited”.

“ Ieard Papers, Reel 15 Stores. And M.F. Hagan, “Owen Connolly, Esq. 1820-1887”, pub'd by trustees estate of Owen Cou- nolly, 1977. p. 23.

‘5 beard Papers, Reel 5 Hearts.

“ Act of General Assembly, 1899. 62 Vic- toria Cap. XXVIII, Assented to May 19, 1899.

‘7 Leard Papers, Reel 15 Stores.

“ GeorgeAIeard,“Souris Sixty YearsAgo”, published in Guardian, August 19, 1958.

" Information from J. Russell Ieard who grew up near the corner of Hebrew and Main in Souris.

5° Ieard Papers, Reel 14 Paquet

5' Leard Papers, Reel 14 Magdalena. J.F. Sterns interview.

5’ leard Papers, Reel 14 Magdalena. Daily Examiner, November 27, 1884.

5" Leard Papers, Reel 7 Magdalena.

5‘ Ieard Papers, Reel 7 Packets.

55 Daily Examiner. May 2, 1898.

5‘ Leard Papers, Reel 14 McLauchlan. Also interview J. Frank Sterns, June 8, 1955.

Trades and Craftsmen:

5" Ieard, “Souris Sixty Years Ago”. August 18, 1958. _ ‘

5‘ Ibid. See also Reel 13 Craftsmen and Reel 15 Stores.

5' MacKinnon and Warburton, p. 604. See also Reel 3 Creamer.

’0 Leard Papers. Reel 15 Wright. See also Wesleyan, April 28, 1882.

‘1 Eastern Graphic, January 17, 1979.1nter- view with Jack Cantwell.

‘1 Leard, Claws, Tales & Tornally, pp. 6, 7, 15.

‘3 Eastern Graphic, April 4, 1979. Interview with Glynn Stewart.

G‘ Ieard Papers, Reel 4 Fur Farming. See

also Eastern Graphic. June 13, 1979.

Interview with C. Roy White.

McAlpine’s Directory of 1900.

Atlantic Advocate article in issue Janu-

ary 1966, pp. 53-54.

‘7 [card Papers, Reel 13 Cars.

“ Ieard Papers, Reel 13 Banks. Pioneer, May 20, 1884.

5' MacKinnon and Warburton, p. 441. (There was a Bank of Nova Scotia in Souris for a time located in the Connolly Building. Managers included Lutz. Fraser and James Gray. It closed c. 1924.)

7° Leard Papers, Reel 13 Hotels. Interview with Frank Hearts, August 13, 1954.

7‘ Leard Papers, Reel 13 Hotels. Bannerman C. Cox was the son of J.B. Cox who came from Newfoundland c. 1845. He had a

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store in Charlottetown and later moved to Morell where he died. (Prince Edward Island Magazine, March 1901, p. 21.) Leard Papers, Reel 13 Hotels.

Ibid.74. beard Papers, Reel 14 MacDonald. Ieard Papers, Reel 14 Post Office. Warburton, p. 372.

Ibid. p. 370.

Royal Gazette, July 15, 1851.

Family Herald and Weekly Star, April 11, 1888. See also P.E.I. Directory 1889, pp. 222 and 240, and Leard Papers, Reel 15 Telephone: Interview with Co]. Dan MacKinnon, January 1952.

MacKinnon and Warburton, p. 104. Frank Schwartz, “An Economic History of Prince Edward Island", Exploring Island History, ed. Harry Baglole, Rag- weed Press Belfast, P.E.I., 1977. pp 1021M. Leard Papers, Reel 5 Harvest Excursion: McLean’s, September 1, 1954.

Ibid., Lewin beard interview. September 1966.

C. Roy White interview.

Lorne C. Callback, “Economic and Social Developments Since Confederation". Canada ’s Smallest Province. ed. Francis W.P. Bolger, printed in Canada by John Deyell Company, 1973. p. 339.

Chapter VII - Community

In 1950, when Hon. Melvin McQuaid addressed the newly formed Board of Trade, he noted that the population of Souris at that time (1,183 in 1951) was about the same as it had been in 1900 when an earlier Board of Trade was formed. (1,140 in 1901 census). In 1981 the population of Souris was 1,452.

Leard Papers, Reel 15 Streets: Roads, Bridges, Wells.

Leard Papers, Reel 15 town. Annual report of Town Council, 1912 (Street Committee Report). -

Ieard Papers, Reel 15 Streets.

Leard Papers, Reel 15 Town. Annual Report of Town Council, 1912 (Report of Street Lighting Committee).

Malachias Callaghan was a tailor in Souris in 1910.

Leard Papers, Reel 13 Health.

Doctors & Epidemics:

Letter of Chief Justice Peter Stewart to Lord Sydney, June 2, 1784. See also Frank- lin L. Pigot’s History of Mount Stewart, Prince Edward Island, published by the author in 1975.

Leard Papers, Reel 8 Pioneer Customs. Census of 1841. See also Reel 13 Doctors. Guardian, June 18, 1932. See also Reel 13, Doctors.

‘2 Bolger. Canada's Smallest Province, p.

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