La Salle, Cavelier de, 16, 116; Fort Cataraqui conceded to, 145; his birth, 147; comes to New France, 147; establishes a trading-post at Lachine, 147, 148; starts on his expedition to the Mississippi, 148; returns to look after his affairs at Fort Frontenac, 149; back to Crevecoeur and finds it deserted, 149; descends the Mississippi, 150; raises a cross on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico and takes possession in the name of the King of France, 151; spends a year in establishing trading-posts among the Illinois, 151; visits France, 151; his misfortunes, 152; is murdered by one of his servants, 152; Bancroft's appreciation of, 152, 153; his version of the Abbe de Fenelon's sermon, 160, 161 Latour, Abbe de, quoted, 33; on the liquor question, 36-8; _re_ the Sovereign Council, 40; describes the characteristics of the young colonists, 100; on Laval, 187, 188, 264 Lauson-Charny, M. de, director of the Quebec Seminary, 55, 134 Laval, Anne Charlotte de, only sister of Bishop Laval, 19 Laval, Fanchon (Charles-Francois-Guy), nephew of the bishop, 140 Laval, Henri de, brother of Bishop Laval, 19, 21, 139, 141 Laval, Hugues de, Seigneur of Montigny, etc., father of Bishop Laval, 17; his death, 18 Laval, Jean-Louis de, receives the bishop's inheritance, 19, 21, 22, 139 Laval-Montmorency, Francois de, first Bishop of Quebec, his birth and ancestors, 17; death of his father, 18; his education, 19-21; death of his two brothers, 21; his mother begs him, on becoming the head of the family, to abandon his ecclesiastical career, 21; renounces his inheritance in favour of his brother Jean-Louis, 21, 22; his ordination, 22; appointed archdeacon of the Cathedral of Evreux, 22; spends fifteen months in Rome, 23; three years in the religious retreat of M. de Bernieres, 24, 25; embarks for New France with the title of Bishop of Petraea _in partibus_, 26; disputes his authority with the Abbe de Queylus, 27, 28; given the entire jurisdiction of Canada, 28; his personality and appearance, 28, 29; his devotion to the plague-stricken, 33; private life, 33, 34; friction with d'Argenson on questions of precedence, 34; opposes the liquor trade with the savages, 36-9; carries an appeal to the throne against the liquor traffic, 39; returns to Canada, 41; his efforts to establish a seminary at Quebec, 47-50; obtains an ordinance from the king granting the seminary permission to collect tithes, 50; receives letters from Colbert and the king, 52, 53; takes up his abode in the seminary, 55; his pastoral visits, 74, 75, 87; founds the smaller seminary in 1668, 97-9; his efforts to educate the colonists, 97-100, 124; builds the first sanctuary of Sainte Anne, 101; his ardent desire for more missionaries is granted, 104, 105; his advice to the missionaries, 105-7; receives a letter from the king _re_ the Recollet priests, 110; created Bishop of Quebec (1674), 129;