ST. ANN 'S SCHOOL By Heather MacNeill St. Ann 's School appears in the Visitation Reports of 1848. In 1848, it is recorded in the Annual Visitation Report that St. Ann 's School of Lot 22 was operating. The first report indicates the following: "newly opened, examined in all branches good". According to a history paper, written for Father Francis Bolger 's RE. I. History course, by Noella Reid about the history of St. Ann 's School, the little one-room schoolhouse was located on the corner of St. Patrick's Road and Road, diagonally across from its second site now the property of Vincent and Pauline Doiron of St. Ann 's. In 1851, the Annual Visitation Report indicates that Edmund Roach , a first class teacher was teaching in the one-room school. That year, Mr. Roach taught 42 students attending St. Ann 's School. Enrollment in St. Ann 's School, over the next century, fluctuated somewhere between 30 students a year to enrollments reaching almost 60 students some years. It is more than likely that the first structure of St. Ann 's School was a building that was hastily needed and thus it was not to be a long-stand¬ ing structure. Credibility can be given to this idea because Father Burke's notes tell us a new church was built in 1864, and the belief is that the sec¬ ond church that had been rebuilt in 1843 or 1844 and hauled from Hope River to St. Ann 's some years later was turned into a school. The second church was moved to the present location of Vincent Doiron's. According to the school inspector of 1864, the state of the first school was reported as being: "of logs, low and rather small; roof not very good". The Annual Visitation Report of 1866 lists the condition of the first school as being "very bad; new one in frame and boarded". The 1867 Report records the condition of St. Ann 's School as "new and good - 24 x 22, 10 feet posts, 2nd coat of plaster wanting". This gives credence to Father Burke's notes. The opening of the new school likely occurred in 1867 or 1868 at its present location of Vincent Doiron's. Of notable mention, Mr. William Sullivan is recorded as being the school teacher in St. Ann 's during the school year of 1857 - 1858. Forty- three students were enrolled that year. He was reported as "using good methods of teaching and keeping order and discipline well maintained". Mr. William Sullivan later became premier of Prince Edward Island between the years 1879 to 1889. Quite a few years later, in 1873, record has it that Patrick McElmeel , a first class teacher was teaching in St. Ann 's. The inspector of 1875 33