tailieunhanh - SOME EARLY RELIGIOUS TEACHERS ON THE RIVER ST. JOHN

Our knowledge of affairs on the River Saint John down to the period of English occupation is largely derived from the correspondence of the Jesuit missionaries, the last of whom was Charles Germain. After his retirement the Acadians and Indians remained for several years without any spiritual guide, a circumstance that did not please them and was also a matter of concern to the Governor of Nova Scotia, who in December, 1764, informed the Secretary of State that a promise had been made the Indians of the River St. John to send them a priest, which the Lords of. | Some Early Religious Teachers on the River St. John Our knowledge of affairs on the River Saint John down to the period of English occupation is largely derived from the correspondence of the Jesuit missionaries the last of whom was Charles Germain. After his retirement the Acadians and Indians remained for several years without any spiritual guide a circumstance that did not please them and was also a matter of concern to the Governor of Nova Scotia who in December 1764 informed the Secretary of State that a promise had been made the Indians of the River St. John to send them a priest which the Lords of Trade had now forbidden. The governor regrets this as likely to confirm the Indians in their notion that the English are a people of dissimulation and artifice who will deceive them and deprive them of their salvation. He thinks it best to use gentle treatment in dealing with the Indians and mentions the fact of their having lately burned their church 90 by command of their priest detained at Quebec as a proof of their zealous devotion to their missionaries. In the summer of 1767 Father Charles Francois Bailly came to the River St. John and established himself at Aukpaque or as he calls it la mission d Ekouipahag en la Riviere St. Jean. The register of baptisms marriages and burials at which he officiated during his year s residence at Aukpaque is still to be seen at French Village in the Parish of Kingsclear York county. The records of his predecessor Germain however were lost during the war period or while the mission was vacant. That there was a field for the missionary s labor is shewn by the fact that in the course of his year s residence on the River St. John he officiated at 29 marriages 79 baptisms and 14 burials. His presence served to draw the Indians to Aukpaque where there were also some Acadian families who seem to have been refugees of the expulsion of 1755. The older Indian village of Medoctec was now deserted and the missionary ordered the chapel .

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