seventy five in length by forty in brea th, and was in the Gothic style of

Architecture. It was Just completed exteriorly when it was accidentally consumed by fire in the month of October 1875.

In the following summer. a contract for building the existing church was let

to Messrs. Burke and MacDonald, rho put up a fine frame building. according

to the pane 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 1352 to 1866. it was attenddd from St. Malachy's, Kincora. first by Rev. F. X. de Laugie, then by Rev. P. Doyle. mass being said in the mission every third Sunday. In September 1863, the mission of St. Anne was again attached to St. Augustine's Rustico, and was attended by Rev. Peter McPhee.

In 1872 the missiOn was enlarged by the addition of one hundred families, td:en 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 1833, was burned to the ground. St. Anne's once more relapsed into a dependency of Rustico. and has since been served by Rev. Peter VcPhee, assisted for a time by Rev. Stanislanus Boudreeux, and latterly L; Rev. Angus H-cfionnld.

In the year 1882 the perishoners completed a new parochial house. which is

neat and tasteful and en ornament to the mission.

Wope River is the birthplvoe of the Von. William Milfrid Sullivan, who has