The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
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The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History
Canada -- Biography; Canada -- History
=Jesuit Relations.= _The Relations_ were published in Paris, by the
provincial of the order, in small annual volumes. The original
narratives were written in Canada, or in one or other of the remote
mission fields, by the devoted missionaries, and are invaluable as a
record of the condition and character of the various Indian tribes in
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. =Index=: =Ch= Promoted
immigration to Canada, 250; describe religious condition of the colony,
256-258; also last days of Champlain, 262, 263. =F= Parkman on, 30;
Rochemonteix on, 30; Marie de l'Incarnation on, 30; their influence in
securing support for the missions, 30-31. =Bib.=: _Jesuit Relations and
Allied Documents, 1610-1791_, ed. by Thwaites, Cleveland, 1896-1901, 73
vols.; _Relations des Jesuites_, Quebec, 1858, 3 vols.
=Jesuits.= The first missionaries of the order, Lalemant, Masse, and
Brébeuf, arrived in Canada in 1625. Work among the Algonquians began
that year; and among the Hurons in 1626. The mission to the Iroquois
dates from 1642. With the Iroquois mission are particularly associated
the names of Jogues, Le Moyne, Ragueneau, Frémin, and De Carheil; and
with the mission to the Hurons, those of Brébeuf, Lalemant, Chabanel,
Garnier, and Chaumonot. _See also_ under names of individual
missionaries. =Index=: =Hd= Their mission at Three Rivers, 43; an
unworthy member of the order, 48-49; suspected of sympathy with rebels,
130, 181; engage in the ginseng trade, 148; vestibule of their church
turned into theatre, 306-307. =F= Arrival of, 17; return after
restoration of Canada to France, 25; Frontenac's attitude towards, 113;
their missions, 166. =L= Their devotion to the cause of missions, 4, 5;
recommend Laval as vicar apostolic, 26; re-establish mission in Iroquois
country, 73; place church at Quebec under patronage of Immaculate
Conception, and St. Louis, 85; works of piety instituted by, 86. =Dr=
Expelled from France, controversy respecting their property in Canada,
23; petition the king for restoration of their property, 35. =Ch=
Récollets decide to ask assistance of, 150; not favoured by the traders,
152; arrival of, at Quebec, 153; their convent robbed by English, 196;
embark for Tadousac on board Kirke's ship, 196; sail for France, 206;
take charge of Quebec mission on restoration of the country to France,
225; establish their convent of Notre Dame des Anges, 227; their convent
at Quebec, 228, 229; give banquet to Emery de Caën, temporary governor,
228; found missions at Three Rivers and in Huron country, 228; also at
Miscou and Cape Breton, 229. =D= As factors in spread of civilization in
America, 2-3. =Bib.=: _Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents_, ed. by
Thwaites; Parkman, _Jesuits in North America_; Rochemonteix, _Les
Jésuites et la Nouvelle France_; Kip, _Early Jesuit Missions_; Campbell,
_Pioneer Priests of North America_.
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