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1S15. — Bouchette, in his "Topographical Descrip- tion of the Province of Lower Canada ", has this to say of La Jeune Lorette and its population at this date: " The Indian village of La Jeune Lorette between eight and nine miles from Quebec, is situated on the eastern side of the River St. Charles, upon an eminence that commands a most interesting, varied and extensive view. . . . The number of the houses is between forty and fifty, which on the exterior have something like an appearance of neatness; they are principally built of wood, although there are some of stone. The inhabitants are about two hundred and fifty, descend- ants of the tribe of Hurons once so formidable even to the powerful Iroquois" (409-410).

1827. — The regular canonical erection of the parish of St. Ambroise de la Jeune Lorette took place on 18 September, 1S27 (Lindsay, ibid., 290).

1829. — Wenwadahronh6 or Gabriel Vincent, third chief of the Hurons of Lorette, died 29 March, 18'29, aged .57. He was the la.st full-blooded Huron — with absolutely no intermixture in his line, it is said, from the time of the exodus from Huronia in 1650. He was also the only Indian at Lorette who had reared his family in the language of his forefathers, the yoimger inhabitants of the village, at that date speaking the French language and not understanding their own ((Jueb. "Star", 8 April, 1829, quoted by the Abbe Lindsay, op. cit., 209).

1835. — Civil recognition of the St. Ambrose parish was granted on 9 October, 1835, under the adminis- tration of Lord Gosford (Id., op. cit., 282).

1845. — On 21 May of this year there were among the Indians residing at Lorette sixty-one men, sixty- two women, and sixty-eight chiklren, who were right- ful recipients of "the King's Gifts". Down to as late a date as 1854 it was customary to distribute such gifts among most of the families of the village. In this latter year thi.s distribution of promiscuous articles was abolished, and a subsidy for the mainte- nance of the resident pastor and of the village school was substituted for it (Lindsay, op. cit., 273—1).

1861. — Father Julius Tailhan, S.J., w'ho resided at Quebec at that time, states that in 1861 the Hurons of Lorette numbered two hundred and sixty-one. (See his "Memoires sur les mceurs etc. par Nicolas Perrot", 1864, p. 311.)

JESUIT MISSIONARIE-S OF THE HURONS OF QUEBEC,

165U-17flO

SECULAR PRIESTS WITH THE HURONS OF QUEBEC, 1794-1909

Name

SojonRN

Pierre-Joseph-Marie Chaumonot

June 10, 1650 to Sept. 19,

1655 April 23, 1658 to June 2,

1662 September 1663 to July 23,

1665 Oct. 3. 1665 to 1692 in 1652

in 1666 and in 1699

1674 to 1676 inclusive

Frangois VaiUant de Gueslis. ..

1675 to 1677 in 1678

1679 to 1683

PiiTn- Choloriec

16S3 to 1688 in 16.S7

in 1688 and from 1691 to

Jacques de Lamber\*iJle

Michel-Germain de Couvert

1695 in 1689. 1690. and in 1698 from 1691 to 1712 in 1695, 1702. and 1703

Pierre Millet

Louia d'.\vaueour

Pierre-Daniel Richer

in 1696 and 1697

from 1706 to 1715 inclusive

from 1715 to 1760

Armand de La Richardic

from 1725 to 1727

1740 to 1742 from 16 Oct., 1743 to 24

Jean-Baptiste-FranQois de Salle-

June. 1744 from 1749 to 1754

Etienne - Thomas -de-ViUencuve

Girault

from 17.55 to 1790

Name

SOJOURN

from Oct. 10, 1794 to Aug.

17, 1799 from 1799 to 1801

Michel Amvot

Fran9ois-Ignace Ranvoyz6 ....

from Sept. 10, 1801 to 1805

FraixQois - Germain

Rivard Lo-

1819 to 1S24 from 1817 to 1819

Thomas Cooke

from 1824 to 1833

Louis-Th«5ophile Fortier

Fran<7ois Boucher

from Sept. 29. 1833 to 1843 from 1843 to Dec 4, 1880

as Assistant: from Dec. 4, 1880 to Sept. 1881 in charge; from 1881 to Oct. 1904 as P.P. from Oct. 1904

1901. — The official census. May, 1901, gives four hundred and forty-eight souls as the population of the Huron village of La Jeune Lorette. The tribe is still in possession of three reserves: the village it.self, which covers thirty acres; the Quarante Arpcnts re- serve, which, despite its name, contains one thou- sand three hundred and fifty-two acres; finally, the Rocmont Reserve, in the County of Portneuf, which is nine thou.sand six hundred acres in extent ("Bulletin des recherches historiques", cited by the Abbd Lind- say, op. cit. 275).

Chiefs of the Hurons of Quebec, 1650-1909

1. Shastaretsi, who died when the Hurons lived at

Old Lorette.

2. Ignace Tsawenhohi, "The Vulture".

3. Paul Tsawenhohi, who dieil at New Lorette.

4. Thomas Martin Thodatowan.

5. Jos6 Vincent.

6. Nicolas Vincent Tsawenhohi, who w'as the nephew

of the preceding. He was recognized after his election at the Great Council lire of the Kan- awokeronons or Iroquois of Caughnawaga. In 1819, called before the Committee of the uebec Legislature, he explained the procedure followed in the election of the grand chief.

7. Simon Romain Tehariolian, acclaimed at the

Great Council Fire of the Hurons, July 17th, 1845.

8. Frani^ois Xavier Picard Tahourench^, succeeded as

grand chief in June 1870. He had been war chief from 1840. He died in 1883.

9. Maurice Sebastien Aghionlian was elected in 1883.

From the date of the passing of the Indian Bill in 1880, its prescriptions have been followed in the appointment of both the chiefs and the grand chiefs (Lindsay, op. cit., 26.5-66). [For the migrations in the west of the Petun, or Tobacco Nation (Tionnontates, Etionnontates, Khion- ontatehronon, Dinondadies, etc.) see Petun Nation]. Original Sources. — Thwaites, The Jesuit Relations and Al- lied documents (Cleveland, 1S96-1901): Martin. Helations des Jfsuites (Quebec. 18.58); Itelalions Incdiles (Paris. 1861); Champlain. Lea Voyapes de la Xouvelle France (Paris, 1632); Laverdikre, (Eufres de Champlain (Quebec. 1870): Bressani, Breve lielalinne (Macerata. 1653) and French tr. by Martin (Montreal, 1852): Ragueneat. Memoires touehantla mart et les vertus des Pi res Isaac Joques. etc., M.S., with affidavits as to relia- bility (Quebec. 1652): I,AVERDii:nE and Casorain, Le Journal des Jesuites (C^urbec. 1S71): Carayon. /^remlVrc 7nission des Ji'suiles au Canada (Paris. 1864): Martin. Autobiographie du P. Chaumonot el son complement (Paris, 1S85): Shea. La Vie du Pire Chaumonot errite par lui-meme (New York, 1S58); Charles Garnier. Copie de ses Lettrcs (Contemporary' .MS.), written from Huronia, 1637-49: MS. copies of Letters from the Missionaries of Huronia to the Ccneral, 1636-.50; Saoard, Le grand yoyaqe au pai/s des Hurons (Paris. Tross reprint. 1865): Hist, du Canada depuis 1616 (Paris, Tross reprint, 1866); Le Clercq, Premier Etablissement, etc. (Paris. 1691): Dl'CRErx, Historic Canadensis Lihri Decern (Paris, 1664): Charlevoix, Ht«(._ de La Nouvdle France: Journal Hist. fVun vot/age dans I'Amer. Sep- lentr. (Paris, 1744), tr. Shea (New York, 1866-71); Allegambe AND Nadasi, Mortes lUustres (Rome, 1657); Tanneb, Societas