The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614
History
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 2: Acadia, 1612-1614
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Indians of North America -- Canada; Jesuits -- Missions; Jesuits -- North America
67 (p. 209).--Named by Cartier (1535), Island of Bacchus, from the
profusion of wild grapes found there. Thévet (_Gr. Insul._) says it was
called by the natives Minigo. Its later name, Isle of Orleans, would
seem to have been given by Cartier, during his first sojourn at Quebec.
See Laverdière's _Champlain_, p. 88. Le Jeune (_Relation_ of 1632,
_post_) mentions it as St. Lawrence Island. It is 20 miles long, and
six miles in its greatest width.
68 (p. 211).--Pierre Coton (also written Cotton) was born in 1564, at
Neronde, and belonged to a distinguished family of Forez; became a
Jesuit priest, and confessor of Henry IV. (see _note_ 7, _ante_, and
vol. i., _note_ 39), and afterwards of Louis XIII. This position he
resigned about 1618, then spent six years at Rome. Returning to France
(1624) as provincial of his order, he died at Paris, March 19, 1626.
69 (p. 217).--_Institutum_, the published collection of the laws
regulating the order of Jesuits (official ed., Prague, 1757; new ed.,
Avignon, 1827-38). For description of this work, see McClintock &
Strong's _Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature_, vol. iv., pp. 865, 866.
70 (p. 217).--See vol. i., _note_ 2.
71 (p. 221).--De Monts's lieutenant, Pontgravé, who is mentioned by
Champlain as Sieur de Pont Gravé, also as Pont. Lescarbot, in _Nouv.
France_, calls the lieutenant "du Pont, surnamed Gravé." He was a
merchant of St. Malo, interested with Chauvin in the Canada trade, and
an intimate friend of Champlain; he made trading voyages to Canada
during some thirty years. Concerning his son, see vol. i., _notes_
13, 44. See Dionne's account of Chauvin and his enterprises (_Nouv.
France_, pp. 193-212, 318-328); on p. 198, he cites from Bréard some
information regarding Pontgravé's family.
72 (p. 221).--Faillon discusses at length the statement of Charlevoix,
that Canada was first called New France in 1609; and he brings much
evidence, both circumstantial and direct, to show that this appellation
was of much earlier date. He considers it highly probable that this
name was applied to Canada at least as early as Cartier's first voyage
(1534).--See his _Col. Fr._, vol. i., pp. 511-513. The "Shorte and
briefe narration" of Cartier's second voyage, given in Goldsmid's
_Hakluyt_, vol. xiii., p. 146, says: "Here endeth the Relation of Iames
Cartiers discouery and Nauigation of the Newfoundlands, by him named
New France." Biard says (_Relation_ of 1616, _post_): "I believe it was
Jean Verazan who was godfather to the title of New France."
73 (p. 225).--Josse, the priest Jessé Fléché; see vol. i., _note_ 25.
74 (p. 233).--Probably referring to the anonymous author of the
_Factum_; see _post_, _Relation_ of 1616, chap. x., and _note_ 97, on
the _Factum_.
75 (p. 233).--Robin de Coulogne; see vol. i., _notes_ 31, 37.
76 (p. 235).--This man, whom Champlain calls Simon Imbert Sandrier, is
said by Biard (chap. xx., _post_) to have been formerly a tavern keeper
at Paris.
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