title: Pioneer Settlements in Upper Canada (Canadian University Paperbooks; 96)
author: Edwin C. Guillet
description: Edwin C. Guillet (1898-1975) was educated at the University of Toronto (B.A. 1922) and at McMaster University (B.A. 1926; M.A. 1927). He joined the staff of Lindsay Collegiate in 1923 and the Central Technical School in Toronto in 1926, remaining until 1934. From 1958 to 1962 he served as research historian with the Ontario Department of Public Records and Archives. In 1963 he was appointed consultant on Canadiana to the Library of Trent University. He was the author of Early Life in Upper Canada and many other books, was noted especially for his works on social and local history.
zlib_text: CHRONICLES OF CANADA  
  Edited by George M. Wrong and H. H. Langton  
  In thirty-two volumes  
  
  ##### Volume 4
  
  THE JESUIT MISSIONS  
  A Chronicle of the Cross in the Wilderness  
  
  By THOMAS GUTHRIE MARQUIS  
  TORONTO, 1916  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  ##### THE RECOLLET FRIARS
  
  For seven years the colony which Champlain founded at the rock of Quebec lived
  without priests. [Footnote: For the general history of the period covered by
  the first four chapters of the present narrative, see 'The Founder of New
  France' in this Series.] Perhaps the lack was not seriously felt, for most of
  the twoscore inmates of the settlement were Huguenot traders. But out in the
  great land, in every direction from the rude dwellings that housed the
  pioneers of Canada, roamed savage tribes, living, said Champlain, 'like brute
  beasts.' It was Champlain's ardent desire to reclaim these beings of the
  wilderness. The salvation of one soul was to him 'of more value than the
  conquest of an empire.' Not far from his native town of