In the following summer, a contract for building the existing church was let to Messrs. Burke and MacDonald who put up a fine frame build— ing according to the same plan as that of the preceding one which had been designed by Mr. John Corbett, architect, then of Charlottetown who himself undertook the completion of the interior of the church.

This sanctuary of St. Anne at Hope River is one of the prettiest among the wooden churches of the diocese and is beautifully situated upon an eminence overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence and surrounded by well cultivated farms.

The mission was first served by Bishop McDonald, or by a priest sent by him from Rustico. From the death of the Bishop up to the year 1862 it was still attended from Rustico, the missionary being Rev. G.A. Belcourt. From 1862 to 1866 it was attended from St. Malachy's, Kinkora, first by Rev. F.X. DeLangie then by Rev. P. Doyle, Mass being said in the mission every third Sunday. In September 1869, the mission of St. Ann was again attached to St. Augustine's, Rustico and was attend- ed by Rev. Peter McPhee.

In 1872, the Mission was enlarged by the addition of one hundred families taken from Rustico. It was then given in charge to Rev. A.J. Trudelle who remained up to the spring of 1881 when the presbytery in which he resided and which had been built by Bishop McDonald in 1844, was burned to the ground. St. Ann's once more relapsed into a dependen- cy of Rustico, and was since well served by Rev.. Peter McPhee, assisted for a time by Rev. Stanislaus Boudreault and latterly by Rev. Angus MacDonald.

In the year 1882 the parishioners completed a new parochial house which is neat and tasteful and an ornament to the mission.

Hope River is the birthplace of the Hon. William Wilfred Sullivan who has been for the past eight years, Premier and Attorney General of Prince Edward Island. His parents emigrated to this country from Kerry, Ireland, and settled in the district of Hope River where their descendants are the prosperous owners of a large and valuable property.

In Hope River was also spent the boyhood of Mr. James Jeffrey Roche who in early manhood left Prince Edward Island for the Athens of America (Boston) where he is now counted among the distinguished literary men of the day. He was editor of the Boston Pilot."

So end the historical notes of Father Burke.

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