ken place in Canada, and urged him to take steps for its restoration
to France.

The fathers disembarked at Calais at the end of October. Father Masse
returned to his former position of minister at the college of La Fleche.
Father Anne de Nouee went to Bourges. Father de Brebeuf entered the
college of Rouen, where he had laboured previously, and three other
Jesuits whom we find afterwards in Canada, Father Charles Lalemant,
Father Jogues and Father Simon Lemoyne, were at that time professors in
this college. Father Masse and Father de Brebeuf were soon to resume
their ministration in this country, which they were forced to abandon at
a time when they had hoped to see the realization of their noble
mission. L'Abbe Faillon has written that the family of Hebert alone
remained at Quebec after the surrender, but this is incorrect. The truth
is that at least five families remained in Quebec. It was God's will
that the most prominent and influential men should leave for France,
but He also ordained that a few heroic settlers or possessors of New
France should remain. If their remaining was favourable to France
Champlain deserves the credit, for he did more than any of his
countrymen to bring it about. The population of Quebec or of the whole
colony in July, 1629, was divided as follows:--Inhabitants,
twenty-three; interpreters, eleven; clerks, fourteen; missionaries, ten;
domestics, seven; French, arrived from the Huron country, twenty. This
makes a total number of eighty-five persons.

The following persons remained at Quebec:--Guillaume Hubou and his wife,
Marie Rollet, widow of Louis Hebert; Guillaume Hebert; Guillaume
Couillard, and his wife Guillemette Hebert, and their three children;
Abraham Martin, and his wife, Marguerite Langlois, and their three
children; Pierre Desportes, and his wife, Francoise Langlois, and their
daughter Helene; Nicholas Pivert, his wife, Marguerite Lesage, and their
niece; Adrien Duchesne and his wife; Jean Foucher, Etienne Brule,
Nicholas Marsolet, Le Baillif, Pierre Reye, Olivier Le Tardif. The
missionaries who returned to France were: Three Jesuits, two Recollets,
two Brothers Jesuits and three Brothers Recollets, ten in all. Their
names were: Fathers Jesuits Enemond Masse, Anne de Nouee and Jean de
Brebeuf, Fathers Recollets Joseph de la Roche d'Aillon, and Joseph Le
Caron, Brothers Jesuits Francois Charton and Gilbert Burel, and the
Recollet Friars Gervais Mohier, Jean Gaufestre and Pierr