Sainte-Anne-de-Prescott

Sainte-Anne-de-Prescott
Village
Village of Sainte-Anne-de-Prescott
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Municipality	East Hawkesbury
Status	Rural locality
Government
• Mayor	Robert Kirby
Website	ste-anne.ca

Sainte-Anne-de-Prescott (often written as Ste-Anne-de-Prescott) is a predominantly francophone, Canadian town located in the United Counties of Prescott and Russell, in Ontario, near the Québec border and Glengarry County. It is a part of the Municipality of East Hawkesbury

Sainte-Anne-de-Prescott is a village in eastern Ontario and near the Québec border. Nearby locations include Saint-Eugene and Sainte-Justine-de-Newton which is in the Regional County Municipality of Vaudreuil-Soulanges.

The construction of the church began on August 9, 1883 in order to celebrate the first mass in the sacristy on January 13, 1884. The bell was acquired from the Ernest Chanteloup Company that same year. The church was blessed by Bishop Duhamel September 4, 1884 and the first resident pastor, Joseph E. Coderre, arrived on June 9, 1885. In 1897, the construction of the transepts were completed, and the church acquired a Casavant Frères (opus 85). In 1914 the interior was greatly enhanced through the paintings, executives and faux marble columns made by the painter Toussaint-Xénophon Renaud. In 1921, the cemetery was embellished with an angel of the resurrection of Louis Jobin. The interior restorations of 1958 and 2002 refreshed the colours of the church but several decorative elements were lost. The church has a painting by Toussaint-Xénophon Renaud representing the death of St. Joseph, which was restored in 2013.

Ste-Anne-de-Prescott is one of the few villages in Ontario that have retained many of its stations of the cross.

In the early nineteenth century, the area was occupied by a handful of settlers, mostly British. In 1847 the diocese of Bytown (Ottawa) founded a settlement company that promotes immigration in eastern Ontario to combat the exodus of Canadians to the United States and to ensure the Catholic presence in Ontario. The parish received its official title in 1885. The reason for the choice of St. Anne as patron remains unknown but Prescott comes from the name given to the county. Prescott County is named for Robert Prescott (1726-1815), a distinguished soldier who was Governor-in-Chief of the Canadas from 1796-1799.