St. Luke’s Anglican Church
(Souris Heritage Anglican Church)
140 First Street S,
Souris

Designation Date: January 23, 1992
Designation Authority: The Town of Souris
Present Owner: Souris and District Heritage Club Inc.

Constructed in 1883, the former St. Luke’s Anglican Church is one of the oldest churches in western Manitoba. Only two years after initial settlement of the area, and a full three years before the railway reached it, the fledgling community of Souris, largely Anglican at the time, engaged an architect to design its church. It was a wood frame structure, of modest size and designed in the popular Gothic Revival style of the period. As the community and the congregation grew, additions were made to the church, in 1894 and again in 1911. The latter additions were demolished in December of 1989. However, the original 1883 section was saved and acquired by the Souris and District Heritage Club, which relocated the structure to its present site.