"PETER BIARD, a French citizen, born in Grenoble, a laborer of great zeal, and of very many laurels which [iv] he first gathered in the dreadful and pathless forests of the Canadian tribes of North America. Although suffering there every extremity, he still experienced nothing more brutal than the Heretics. The barbarous race, forgetting its savageness, was learning to venerate the character of this most righteous man; when, behold, Heresy, hostile to holiness and ignorant of God, burst, together with the English, upon the shores of Canada. The reward of a very laborious expedition was great,--to drive thence the hated Jesuit. For some time he was kept in bonds; and at last, stripped of everything, he was with difficulty restored to France. But meanwhile, until it was safe to return to the wilds of Canada, he took vengeance in a holy manner for the injury inflicted by the Heretics; during the rest of his life he sought with the greatest enthusiasm to win to life those by whom he had been devoted to death. He had formerly taught Theology at Lyons, not without commendation. On his return from the Military Mission, when he had turned aside to Avignon, and, making use of his opportunity, had retired into the Novitiate, in [v] almost the very beginning of his spiritual Exercises, he was called away to the contemplation of paradise, as we believe, on the 19th day of November, in the year 1622. Besides a _Letter to R. P. General Commander from Port Royal_, and _An Account of the Expedition of the English against Canada_, Father Biard wrote _A Book Advocating the authority of the Pontiff_ against Martinet, a minister. In French, also, he published separately _An Account of New France and of the journey thither of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus_. Lyons, by L. Muguet, 1616, in 12mo."--[O'CALLAGHAN.] [vii] Tabvla Rervm. Pag. _SOCIETAS Jesu, in Canadam, seu Novam Franciam inducta_ 5 II _Initium Canadicæ Missionis, & primi fructus_ 7 III _Domicilia Societatis & Missiones in Nova Francia_ 18 IV _Missio Canadensis ab Anglis proturbata_ 25 V _Unus è Societate interficitur; alii Canada ejiciuntur_ 27 VI _Missiones Societatis Jesu in America septentrionali, Anno 1710_ 37 [vii] Table of Contents. [_The page numbers refer to O'Callaghan's Reprint._] Page. _THE Society of Jesus introduced into Canada or New France_ 5 II _Beginning and first fruits of the Canadian Mission_ 7 III _Settlements and Missions of the Society in New France_ 18 IV _The Canadian Mission driven out by the English_ 25 V _One of the members of the Society is killed; the others are expelled from Canada_ 27