 In that year, when the congregation of "goodly and godly" people was sufficiently large, the Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist was consecrated and the Reverend H. Pollard was installed as the first Rector.In 1889, a furore erupted in St George's Church which was to have a dramatic effect upon the life of St. John's.A small core of thirty people left St. George's over a dispute centering on the liturgy, and this group bought a piece of land at the corner of Elgin and Somerset Streets from James McLaren of Buckingham, Quebec.