8 mi NE of Souris in Lot 46. Named for a rock offshore, now washed away, and for Barra in the Outer Hebrides. Tradition has that a first settler, Mclsaac, exclaimed to others that "you might as well be on the rock of Barra" in reference to the barrenness of the land. School district C1851.PO 1879-1914.
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