Pierre Raffeix (1633–1724) was a French
Jesuit
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missionary in
Canada.
He was born at
Clermont-Ferrand, entered the Society of Jesus in 1653, and came to Canada in 1663. In 1668 he established near
Montreal a settlement for converted
Iroquois (now
Kahnawake).
In 1671 he replaced
Étienne de Carheil
Étienne de Carheil (20 November 1633 – 27 July 1726) was a French Jesuit priest who became a missionary to the Iroquois and Huron Indians in the New World. He served as the chief Jesuit missionary to the Native Americans of the Straits of Mack ...
in the
Cayuga Cayuga often refers to:
* Cayuga people, a native tribe to North America, part of the Iroquois Confederacy
* Cayuga language, the language of the Cayuga
Cayuga may also refer to:
Places Canada
* Cayuga, Ontario
United States
* Cayuga, Illinois ...
mission, and afterwards went to the
Seneca Indians until 1680.
Raffeix was a cartographer, as the following surviving maps bear witness:
*"Carte des regions les plus occidentales du Canada", dated 1676, and bearing a legend relating to the voyage of discovery of
Jacques Marquette and
Louis Joliet;
*"Le lac Ontario avec les pays adjacents et surtout les cinq nations iroquoises";
*"La Nouvelle-France, de l'Océan au lac Erié, et, au sud, jusqu'à la Nouvelle-Angleterre".
After his return to Quebec he acted as procurator to the mission. He spent two years at
Jeune-Lorette
Wendake is the current name for two urban reserves, Wendake 7 () and Wendake 7A, () of the Huron-Wendat Nation in the Canadian province of Quebec. They are enclaves entirely surrounded by the La Haute-Saint-Charles borough of Quebec City, within ...
(1699–1700), shortly after the final migration of the remnants of the
Huron nation. He died at
Quebec.
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1633 births
1724 deaths
17th-century French Jesuits
French Roman Catholic missionaries
Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada
18th-century French Jesuits
French cartographers
Jesuit missionaries in New France
Clergy from Clermont-Ferrand
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