Joseph Aubery
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Joseph Aubery (born at Gisors in Normandy, 10 May 1673; died at Saint-François, Quebec, Canada, 2 July 1755 was a French Jesuit missionary in Canada. Chateaubriand reproduces the life-story of Father Aubery in the character of the missionary in his Atala.
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[edit] Life
At the age of seventeen he entered the Society of Jesus, and for four years studied in Paris. He arrived in Canada in 1694 and completed his studies at Quebec where he was also instructor for five years, and where he was ordained in 1700.
Assigned to the Abenaki mission, he re-established in 1701 the mission at Medoctec. It was on the St. John River, at Hay's Creek[1], and appears to have been abandoned by the Franciscans about a year earlier. In 1708 he was given charge of the Abenaki reduction at St. François. He remained in that mission for nearly half a century.
[edit] Works
Numerous manuscripts, with the mission registers, were destroyed by fire in 1759. He wrote several memorials in opposition to the claims of the English in Acadia, and sent them to the French Government, urging that the boundary between the French and English possessions should be determined by mutual agreement. To these memorials he added a map, giving the boundaries as defined by the treaty of Utrecht. His plan, however, was not accepted. These documents were preserved in the Paris archives.
An unpublished French-Abenaki dictionary came to light in the twentieth century[2].
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://www.cchs-nb.ca/html/Peter_PaulL.html
- ^ Father Aubery's French Abenaki Dictionary, an English translation, Chisholm Bros. Publishing (1995), ISBN-10: 156798004X, ISBN-13: 978-1567980042.
This article incorporates text from the entry Joseph Aubery in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913.
