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
55. (p. 221)--The mission of St. Ignace was founded by Marquette, in
1670, on Point St. Ignace, on the mainland north of and opposite the
Island of Michillimackinac (now shortened to Mackinaw or Mackinac, as
fancy dictates). The term Michillimackinac, variously spelled, was
applied by the earliest French not only to the island and straits of
that name, but in general to the great peninsula lying north of the
straits.
56. (p. 221)--The mission of Sault Ste. Marie, at the outlet of Lake
Superior, was founded by Raimbault and Jogues in 1640. The place was
always an important rallying-point for the natives, and naturally
became the center of a wide-spreading fur trade, which lasted, under
French, English, and American dominations in turn, until about 1840.
57. (p. 221)--The Western mission of St. Francis Xavier was founded by
Allouez in 1669, at the first rapids in the Fox River (of Green Bay),
on the east side of the river, in what is now the city of Depere, Wis.
An important Indian village had from the earliest historic times been
located there.
58. (p. 223)--Outaouaki = Ottawas; Puteatamis = Pottawattomies;
Kikarous = Kickapoos; Outagamies = Foxes; Oumiamis = Miamis.
59. (p. 223)--Bayagoulas, one of the Louisiana missions, of which
Father Paul du Ru, S. J., was in charge in 1700. Shea's _Catholic
Missions_, p. 443.
60. (p. 227)--An anonymous writer in _The Catholic World_, (vol. xii.,
p. 629) makes the statement that Quentin and Du Thet were sent out to
replace Biard and Massé "if they had perished; otherwise to return to
France." Contemporary writers, however, speak of their coming as a
reinforcement.
61. (p. 227)--On what came to be known as Frenchman's Bay, on the east
side of the island of Mount Desert. Parkman says (_Pioneers_, ed. 1865,
p. 276, _note_): "Probably all of Frenchman's Bay was included under
the name of the Harbor of St. Sauveur. The landing-place so called
seems to have been near the entrance of the bay, certainly south of Bar
Harbor. The Indian name of the Island of Mount Desert was Penetic. Its
present name was given by Champlain."
62. (p. 227)--The "Jonas," conspicuous in the annals of Acadia from the
time in which Poutrincourt and Lescarbot sailed in her for Port Royal,
in 1606, to her capture by Argall in 1613. Parkman aptly calls her "the
'Mayflower' of the Jesuits."
63. (p. 229)--Samuel Argall, born in Bristol, England, 1572; died,
1639. See Cooke's _Virginia_ (Amer. Commonwealths ser.), pp. 111-113,
for a fair estimate of this tempestuous character. Folsom's "Expedition
of Captain Samuel Argal," to _N. Y. Hist. Colls._ (new ser.); vol. i.,
pp. 333-342, goes over that ground quite completely.
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