The house was built in 1880, it was originally owned by J.G Stern, owner and operator of Stern's Bros company in Souris. A block of wood was found when the owners removed the sun porch from the front of the home, it reads:
Alva Leighton, Souris Oct 23 1881, PE Island, Born 1865 Age 16.
"When this you see remember me and bare me in your mind, let all the world say what they may speak of me as you find, for likley when this block is found i will be cold under the ground."