Allan Greer, editor, The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North America, Bedford Saint Martin's, 2000, is a scholarly edited selection, with a substantial historian's introduction, from the seventy-three-volume Jesuit Relations, the missionaries' own annual reports from New France. Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec in 1608; Recollet friars arrived in 1615 and Jesuit missionaries, including Jean de Brebeuf, followed from 1625, building the Catholic church that became New France's established religious institution.
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Scholarly edited primary-source collection with a substantial academic introduction by a University of Toronto historian, part of the widely used Bedford Series in History and Culture; used for the 1608 founding of Quebec and the Recollet and Jesuit missions that followed. NotesUsed for Catholic missions in New France, 1608 onward.
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AuthorAllan Greer, editor
PublisherBedford Saint Martin's
Publication Year2000
Source TypeEdited volume
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Source The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North AmericaAllan Greer, editor
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Source The Jesuit Relations: Natives and Missionaries in Seventeenth-Century North AmericaAllan Greer, editor
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