Further complicating matters, there is credible evidence that the French Jesuit Reverend Paul Ragueneau visited the falls some 35 years before Hennepin's visit, while working among the Huron First Nation in Canada.

The Jesuit Charlevoix went from Canada to Louisiana.

* 1662-French Jesuit missionary Julien Garnier sails for Canada

Saint Jean de Brébeuf ( March 25, 1593 – March 16, 1649 ) was a Jesuit missionary, martyred in Canada on March 16, 1649.

Brébeuf told many of his experiences in Canada in the Jesuit Relations, an invaluable source of early Canadian history.

The North American Martyrs, also known as the Canadian Martyrs or the Martyrs of New France, were eight Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, who were brutally tortured and martyred in the mid-17th century in Canada, in what are now southern Ontario and upstate New York, during the warfare between the Iroquois and the Huron.

The earliest written record of violins in Canada comes from the Jesuit Relation of 1645.

* Charles Garnier ( missionary ) ( 1606 – 1649 ), Jesuit missionary, martyred in Canada in 1649

Charles Albanel ( shärl älbänel ') ( 1616 – 96 ) was a French missionary explorer in Canada, a Jesuit priest.

The raiding party took them on a difficult overland journey of hundreds of miles to Kahnawake, a Jesuit mission village in Canada, across the St. Lawrence River from the village of Montreal.

Mercier was born in Saint-Athanase, Lower Canada, studied at the Jesuit College Sainte-Marie in Montreal, and was called to the Bar of Quebec in April 1865.

* Ginseng, first used by Native Americans, is discovered by a Jesuit missionary in Canada.

This change appears to have happened sometime between the mid-eighteenth century, when the Jesuit missionary Pierre Potier ( 1708 – 1781 ) documented the Petun dialect of Wendat in Canada, and the mid-nineteenth century.

* Jesuit relations of discoveries and other occurrences in Canada and the northern and western states of the union, 1632 – 1672, New York, 1847

Desautels was trained in the Jesuit College of St. Boniface, Manitoba, Canada, and later at the University of Manitoba School of Law.

Historians have noted contemporary accounts of competition between the Protestant missionaries and Catholic priests, who had become established with Jesuit missions from Canada and St. Louis, Missouri, as contributing to the tensions.

The Martyrs ’ Shrine is a Roman Catholic church in Midland, Ontario, Canada, which is consecrated to the memory of the Canadian Martyrs, six Jesuit Martyrs and two lay persons from the mission of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons.

This followed an important meeting of Huronia reconciliation in Midland, Ontario, Canada, attended by representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy, Wyandotte nations, British, French, Dutch, Anglican Church and Catholic Jesuit brothers.

In 1639, Mother Marie of the Incarnation ( née Marie Guyart, b. 1599 ), two other Ursuline nuns, and a Jesuit priest left France for a mission to Canada.

The " Huron Carol " ( or " Twas in the Moon of Wintertime ") is a Canadian Christmas hymn ( Canada's oldest Christmas song ), written in 1643 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada.

Loyola College was a Jesuit college in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Clement X, seeing the results of the apostolic labours of the early French missionaries in Canada, the number of the faithful, and the wide field of labour, resolved to give the Church an independent organisation, and erected a see at Quebec, the bishop to depend directly on the Holy See ; this provision would later secure its permanence after Quebec passed into the hands of England.

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* 1615-French missionaries in Canada open schools in Trois-Rivières and Tadoussac to teach First Nations children with the hopes of converting them

* Jean Grégoire de La Trinité, alias Jean-Gaston Tremblay, from Canada also proclaimed himself Pope Gregory XVII back in 1968 ; however, Tremblay usually styles himself Pope John-Gregory XVII and further, that he is the self styled successor of an ultra-modernist French antipope, Michel Colin ( former Roman Catholic priest of the Sacred Heart missionaries ), founder of the Renovated Church of Christ in 1951 and who went under the name Clement XV since ca.

Potlatching was made illegal in Canada in 1884 in an amendment to the Indian Act and the United States in the late 19th century, largely at the urging of missionaries and government agents who considered it " a worse than useless custom " that was seen as wasteful, unproductive, and contrary to civilized values.

Although the forced relocation of Japanese Canadians away from the West Coast was supported by most members across Canada, church leaders and missionaries in B. C.

In 1859 two missionaries of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America came to Japan, followed by missionaries from the Church of England and the Anglican Church of Canada.

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" In 1845, the Maritime Baptists were the first Protestant body in what is now Canada to send missionaries overseas.

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The Recollects were important as early missionaries to the French colonies in Canada, although they were later displaced there by the Jesuits.

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* 1615: French Roman Catholic missionaries arrive in Canada.

His parents, the Reverend Charles and Gertrude Jolliffe, were missionaries for the Methodist Church of Canada, and were living near what was then known as Luchow, China.

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Not all Chinese arrivals had to pay the head tax, however ; some were presumed to return to China after " sojourning " to Canada because of their transitory occupation or background ( students, teachers, missionaries, merchants, members of the diplomatic corps ) and were therefore exempt from paying this fee.

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By the 1830s there was a blending of Native and Christian ceremonies among the Ktunaxa, which occurred without the presence of European missionaries or pressure, but rather through their contact with Christian Natives from other parts of Canada and the United States.