 Bourg went to Quebec in the summer of 1774; around that time, Bishop Briand appointed him Vicar-General for Acadia.That autumn, he made a pastoral visit to the Acadians at Saint John River.From there he made his way to Petitcodiac, and Annapolis, and then Grosses Coques near St. Marys Bay, where he ministered to a group that had returned to settle there after being deported from Massachusetts.