iMMm as | Frontal view church built in 1911. This sixth church building, the cement block church, is generally considered to have been a disaster. It began to give trouble almost imme¬ diately and turned out to be worse than the fires that had already plagued the parish. As time went on, it gave rise to controversy as to whether it could be strengthened and repaired by bricking up the walls. It was even¬ tually decided to repair the structure - a decision to which some were strongly opposed. Fire had not yet run its course with St. Ann 's, Hope River . In 1946 the elegant parochial house was burned to the ground. The present parochial house was built in 1946 by Walter Reid and still stands as the fourth to be built by the parish. Since church records are usually kept in the parochial house the question arises as to what damage the fires did to the records. Remarkably, the only records that were destroyed were in the fire of 1881. All records since that time are intact. 27