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=: (Samuel de Champlain era) Promoted
immigration to Canada, 250; describe religious condition of the colony,
256-258; also last days of Champlain, 262, 263. (Count Frontenac era) 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.