Jesuit Relations
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The Jesuit Relations, the common name by which the Relations des Jésuites de la Nouvelle-France are known, are the annual reports which were issued by the superior of the Jesuit missions in New France to the Jesuit overseer in France between the years of 1632 and 1673. Narrative in format, the reports were written in French and originally intended to inform the procurator of the progress of the conversion work among the First Nations people of the New World. Eventually, the reports came be oriented more towards the general public with the aim of gathering financial support for the missions and to recruit new settlers to the colonies. They remain an important primary source in the study of the early history of New France and Native societies in the early years of European contact.
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[edit] Authorship and publication
Beginning in 1632, the Relations were published annually until 1673. [1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Thwaites, p. 41.
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Relations des jésuites: contenant ce qui s’est passé de plus remarquables dans les missions des pères de la Compagnie de Jésus dans la Nouvelle-France. Quebec: A. Côté, 1858.
Donnely, Joseph P. Thwaites' Jesuit Relations: Errata and Addenda. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1967.
McCoy, James C. Jesuit relations of Canada, 1632-1673: a bibliography. Paris: A. Rau, 1937.
Thwaites, Reuben Gold [editor and translator]. The Jesuit Relations and allied documents : travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 : the original French, Latin, and Italian texts, with English translations and notes. Cleveland: Burrows Bros. Co., 1896-1901. In seventy-three volumes.
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