Many Years After The Opening Of The Algonquin And Montagnais School At
Sillery, The Huron Indians, After Being Relentlessly Tracked
By their
inveterate foes, the Five Nations, divided into five detachments; one of
these hid on the Great Manitoulin Island,
Others elsewhere; a portion came
down to Quebec on the 26th July, 1650, [194] under the direction of Father
Ragueneau, and, on the 28th July, 1650, settled first on the Jesuits land
at Beauport; in March, 1651, they went to Ance du Fort, on the lands of
Mademoiselle de Grandmaison, on the Island of Orleans. But the Iroquois
having scented their prey in their new abode, made a raid on the island,
butchered seventy-one of them, and carried away some prisoners. The
unfortunate redskins soon left the Island in dismay, and for protection,
encamped in the city of Quebec itself, under the cannon of the fort,
constructed by Governor d'Aillebout to receive them, near the Jesuits
College (at Cote de St. Michel); in 1667, they settled on the northerly
frontier of Sillery, [195] in Notre Dame de Foy [now St. Foye]; restless
and scared, they again shifted they quarters on the 29th December, 1693,
and pitched their erratic tents at Ancienne Lorette, which place they also
abandoned many years afterwards to go and settle at Jeune or Indian
Lorette, where the remnants of this once warlike race [196] (the nobles
amongst Indian tribes) exist, now crossed with their Caucasian brethren,
and vegetate in obscurity - exotic trees transplanted far from their native
wilds.
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