Image of Red Roof Church

-- St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, commonly known as the "red roof church" is a fine example of Neo-Gothic building from the Victorian era. Established in 1861 as an Anglo-Catholic parish, it was, in the words of Karl Raudsepp, "the first Tractarian church in Canada and the first Anglican free seat church in Montreal". The old system of pew rents, which provided income for churches, was eschewed here with the idea that rich and poor should sit and worship together as equals before God. The present stone church building dates from 1878 and was designed by architect William Tutin Thomas in consultation with the Rev. Edmund Wood, Rector and founder of the parish.