The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 1: Acadia, 1610-1613
History
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 1: Acadia, 1610-1613
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
48. (p. 199)--Philip Alegambe, a Jesuit scholar (Flemish). Died in
1652, while superior of the house of his order at Rome. He was the
leading writer upon _Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu_ (1643).
49. (p. 219)--_Seven Islands._ A group at the mouth of the St. Lawrence
River, near the northerly shore of the gulf.
50. (p. 219)--Chicoutimi River, rising in numerous small lakes near
Lake St. John, pursues a picturesque course, frequently interrupted by
rapids, eastward and northeastward into the Saguenay. At the junction,
seventy-five miles above the mouth of the latter, is now the important
lumber-shipping port of Chicoutimi, at whose wharves ocean-going
vessels are laden. The old missionary district of that name included
the rugged country lying south and southwest of Lake St. John.
51. (p. 221)--The French Jesuits definitely abandoned the Iroquois
field in 1687, owing to the rising power of the English. In 1701,
Bruyas was again on the ground, being joined the year following by
De Lamberville, Garnier, and Le Valliant, and later by D'Hue and De
Marieul. The entire party was driven out in 1708, and many of their
Iroquois converts retired with them to the mission of Caughnawaga, near
Montreal.
52. (p. 221)--The Iroquois Mission of St. Francis Xavier was founded in
1669 by Iroquois Christians,--emigrants from the "castles" of the Five
Nations. The mission was finally removed to Sault St. Louis, on the St.
Lawrence, and called Caughnawaga, from the Indian village of that name
on the Mohawk, where had also been a Jesuit mission.
53. (p. 221)--Lake Michigan. Called Lac des Puants on Champlain's map
of 1632, in reference to the Winnebago tribe (Puants) on Green Bay; in
several of the _Relations_, and on Marquette's map (1674), it is styled
Lac des Illinois, from the Illinois Indians upon its southern coast;
Allouez calls it (1675) Lac St. Joseph, because of Fort and River St.
Josephs on the southeast coast; Coronelli's map (1688) honors the
Dauphin by calling the lake after him; Hennepin comes the nearest to
modern usage, in his name, Michigonong.
54. (p. 221)--Lake Huron, which has figured under many titles, in the
old maps and chronicles. This name has reference to the Indian family
upon its eastern shores. Champlain first named it La Mer Douce, ("The
Fresh Sea"), and later Lac des Attigouantan, after the chief tribe of
the Hurons; Sanson's map (1657) names it Karegnondi; Coronelli's map
(1688) christens it Lac d'Orleans; Colden in one place gives it as
Quatoghe, and in another as Caniatare. Lac des Hurons first appears in
the map accompanying the _Relation_ for 1670-71.
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