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Town of Dinant, then in the Li^ge country, now in the Province of Namur, Belgium. The understanding was that it should be placed in the Huron chapel, though it was the bishop's intention to have the chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin under the title of the Annunciation (Rel. 1670: Queb. ed., 22, 1; Clev. ed., LIII, 131. Cf. Rel. 1671: Queb. ed., 7, 1; Clev. ed., LIV, 287; Rels. Ined. I, 149; and espe- cially Chaumonot, "Autob.", 174-176). The wish of the bishop was carried out (Rel. 1670: Queb. ed., 15, 1; Clev. ed., LIII, 97), the village, however, for a long time bore the name of Notre Dame de Foy, and was constituted the centre of the parish of that name by Mgr. de Saint- Vallier, 18 September, 1698. It now goes by the name of Sainte-Foy, the original appella- tion of M. de Puiseaux's fief.

1673. — As the Huron colony was at this time stead- ily expanding, owing both to the great influx of Iro-

85) under the title of Notre Dame de Lorette (Rels. ined., II, 14; Clev. ed., LIX, 81).

1697. — "Finally", says Father Girault, "from the autumn of 1697 till the present year 1762 [date of his memoir] the Hurons have lived at Jeune Lorette. Jeune Lorette has no dependencies. It is only a small piece of land in the Cdte Petit St-Antoine, seigniory of St-Michel. On it the Jesuit Fathers, to whom the Seigniory belongs, allowed the Hurons to settle, towards the close of 1697" (Clev. ed., LXX, 207). And there they have remained till the present day.

1711. — Under date of 5 November, 1711, Father Joseph Germain, writing from Quebec, sends this report, through the general of the Society, to the Propaganda, concerning the Hurons of Jeune Lorette: "This mission is three leagues from Quebec and is made up of Hurons who are instructed by two of our Fathers, d'Avaugour and Descouvert [sic]. These

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quois Christians, especially from Tionnontoguen, the chief town of the Mohawks (Clev. ed., LVII, 25), and to natural increase, the missionaries determined to move from Notre Dame de Foy, where they were cramped for land and had little forest growth for fuel, to a more commodious site one league and a half further in the forest. There they planned to build a chapel modelled on that of Our Lady of Loreto, Italy (Rels. in6d., I, 295; Clev. ed., LVIII, 131, 149; cf. Clev. ed., LX, 68-81). The location was one league and a half from Notre Dame de Foy and three leagues from Quebec (Rels. In^d ., 1, 305 ; Clev. ed ., LVIII, 147). However, for some time after the removal of the vil- lage the Indians continued to cultivate their fields at Notre Dame de Foy (Rels. In., I, 296; Clev. ed., LVIII, 131). Including the late accessions from the Iroquois, the population now reached three hundred (Rels. ined., II, 71 ; Clev. ed., LX, 26, 145). This last change of position is thus recorded in Father Girault's memoir: " They [the Hurons] remained there [at Cote St-Michel] froni the spring of 1669 to the 2Sth [sic] of December of the year 1673. Thence they went to live at Vieille Lorette where they remained . . . until the autumn of 1697" (Clev. ed., LXX, 207).

1674. — The corner-stone of the chapel was laid by the superior of Quebec, 16 July, 1674, and the struc- ture was blessed on 4 November of the same year (Rels. In^d., I, 309-10; Clev. ed., LVIII, 155 ; LX,

Indians are very fervent Christians, who are exceed- ingly assiduous at public prayers in their church and at private prayers in their cabins; constant in attend- ance at Holy Mass and in frequenting the Sacraments, in which they participate often with a devotion both tender and solid ; they strictly observe the command- ments of God and of the Church and lead most exem- plary Uves" (Clev. ed., LXVI, 203-05).

1794.— On 10 October, 1794, two days after the death of Father Etienne-Thomas-de-Villeneuve Gi- rault, the last Jesuit missionary of the Hurons near Quebec, Reverend Joseph Pdquet, a secular priest, was appointed as his successor (Lionel St-George Lindsay, "Notre-Dame de la Jeune Lorette", 1900, 281), and on 15 November the Bishop of Quebec au- thorized the purchase of the land of Michael Bergevin, dit Langevin, for the site of a parish church (ibid., 282).

1795. — The bishop, in April, 1795, gave his consent to the building of a presbytery with chapel annexed, and on 2 December, the work being completed, the chapel was blessed (ibid., 282, 283).

1796. — On 6 October the limits of the parish were determined, and a pastoral letter assigned as patron St. Ambrose. The dimensions of the parish were six miles square. This took in part of the old fiefs of Gaudarville, St. Gabriel, L'Ancienne Lorette and Charlesbourg (ibid., 282, 290).