Huron dictionary. Gabriel Sagard, a missionary who arrived in New France in 1623. He is best known for his records of the Huron language, including a dictionary. He also wrote Le grand voyage du Pays des Hurons, an ethnographic work. Nicholas Viel, the first Franciscan martyr in Canada, drowned by the Hurons while returning to Quebec City. Chrétien Le Clercq (Chrestien Leclercq), the first Recollect missionary to be assigned to the missions of the Mi’kmaq in Gaspesia, author of a French-Mi’kmaq dictionary and the ethnographic document Nouvelle Relation de la Gaspésie. Pacifique Duplessis (du Plessis), one of the original four Recollects in New France. Timeline 1606: Marie de Medicis laid down the first stone of the first Recollect chapel in France. 1610: Champlain is trying to find missionaries to go to the New World, he will ask to the Jesuits and then to the Recollects. 1611: Joseph le Caron becomes a Recollect. 1615: Father Chapouin sends four Recollects to accompany Champlain in his trip to Canada. Father le Caron is the first lettered European to go to Huronia. He will then have to come back to France to write a report, but he will return later to continue his mission in Quebec and Tadoussac. 1619: Recollects from Aquitaine – Father Sébastien (died 1623), Rev. Jacques Cardon, Jacques de la Foyer and Louis Fontinier – start a mission in Acadia on the Saint John River. 1619-1621: Construction of the Recollect convent in Quebec, on the Saint-Charles River. It was named after Charles de Boves, (vicar general) of Pontoise, who died soon after 1620, and who protected the Canadian Recollect mission. 1623: Sagard arrives in Quebec on June 28, accompanied by Fathers Nicolas Viel and Joseph Le Caron. On July 16, he leaves Quebec to go to Huronia, where he arrives on August 20. He then settles in Quieuindahian and then later in Quieunonascaron. 1624: Sagard and the others leave Huronia to go back to Quebec and then to France in autumn. 1632: Father Joseph Le Caron dies. A new edition of Voyages by Champlain deletes any allusion of the Recollect missionaries from precedent years. On this year, some Recollects were not allowed to embark on a boat to Quebec; three Jesuits went instead, including Father Paul Le Jeune. 1670: After a change in the colony's politics, the Recollect of Saint-Denis were finally allowed to come back to their old convent in