St. Anne’s Anglican Church is owned by the Diocese of Rupert’s Land, and was designated on March 26, 1996, by the RM of Portage la Prairie. St. Anne’s was constructed between 1862 to 1864, and is the 2^nd oldest Anglican Church in Manitoba, as well as being one of the oldest log churches in continuous use in Western Canada. Built through the efforts of Archdeacon Cockran, founder of the Church of England missions in the Assiniboine Valley, its first incumbent was Reverend John Chapman, who conducted his first service as an ordained minister at the church on New Year’s Day, 1865. Before St. Anne’s was built, settlers who had migrated from the parishes of St. Andrew’s, St. Paul’s, and St. James’ on the Red and lower Assiniboine Rivers, worshipped in Portage la Prairie or in farm houses in this district. The structure is a rare example of Red River Frame log construction, popular throughout the West from 1820 to 1870. It is well preserved, and contains many original elements and fixtures, including hand-made pews, a vestry screen decorated with ‘jackknife-cut’ crosses, and a one-piece baptismal font carved from a single large oak log.