The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 ; the Original French, Latin, and Italian Texts, with English Translations and Notes, Volumen72

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Burrows Bros. Company, 1901
Establishment of Jesuit missions: Abenaki ; Quebec ; Montreal ; Huron ; Iroquois ; Ottawa ; and Lousiana.

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Página 5 - The Burrows Brothers Company conceived the project of republishing the now rare three-volume Quebec edition of the Jesuit Relations (1858), and of accompanying it with a page-for-page English translation. A beginning was made, tentatively, in the matter of translation ; but after a few months, it was decided to place the series under the direction of some professional student of American history. The present Editor was invited to assume charge.

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