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Jesuit missionaries had to write annual reports to their superior in Québec or Montréal as an account of their activities. Annually, between 1632 and 1673, the superior compiled a narrative or "Relation" of the most important events which had occurred in the several missionary districts under his charge, sometimes using the exact words of the missionaries and sometimes summarizing the ...
The Jesuit missionaries who came to New France in the seventeenth century aimed to both convert native peoples such as the Huron to Christianity and also to instill European values within them. [10] Jesuit planners believed that by creating European social institutions and patterns, conversion would become easier: linking European lifestyle as ...
Map of New France (Champlain, 1612). Jesuit missions in North America were attempted in the late 16th century, established early in the 17th century, faltered at the beginning of the 18th, disappeared during the suppression of the Society of Jesus around 1763, and returned around 1830 after the restoration of the Society.
Starting in 1627, it was the New France Company "Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France" who administered New France. Saint-Joseph (1626) Godefroy (1633) Hertel (1633) de Beauport (1634) des Jésuites (1634) La Clousterie (1634) Du Buisson (1634) La Citière (1635) de la Côte-de-Beaupré (1636) de l'Île de Montréal (1636) Île-Jésus (1636)
The book is largely sourced from the writings of François Le Mercier, a principal member of the Jesuit mission to New France who held the title of Rector at the Jesuit college in Quebec and the General Superior of the missions in New France from 1653 to 1656 and again from 1665 to 1671 when he was appointed procurator and primary of the Jesuit college in Quebec which he held for a year before ...
On 15 January 1636, the Company of New France granted to Jacques de la Ferté, Abbot of St. Mary Magdalene of Châteaudun, France himself a member of the company, a "fief and seigneurie of ten lieues in width (approximately 32.48 kilometres (20.18 mi)) along the shore of the St. Lawrence River, by twenty "lieues" (about 64.96 kilometres (40.36 mi)) north from the River.
Jean de Brébeuf SJ (French: [ʒɑ̃ də bʁe.bœf]) (25 March 1593 – 16 March 1649) was a French Jesuit missionary who travelled to New France (Canada) in 1625. There he worked primarily with the Huron for the rest of his life, except for a few years in France from 1629 to 1633.
François Joseph le Mercier (4 October 1604 – 12 June 1690) was a prominent French Jesuit in the early missions to New France and the Huron people. He was the rector of the Jesuit college in Quebec and superior of the whole Canada mission from 1653–56 and again 1665-70, during which period he authored The Jesuit Relations, as well as two published works concerning the Huron missions in the ...