Trouvé, Claude

Trouvé, Claude

Claude Trouvé was sent to Acadia in 1688, presumably to conduct pastoral duties in the Acadian communities. While there is not much information on Trouvé in Acadia, He most likely worked with Indigenous communities, similarly to the work he did in in Quinte for 12 years prior to his work in Acadia. Trouvé only remained in Acadia for two years before he was captured in 1690 and take to Boston. Soon after he was released, Trouvé resumed his missionary work in Beaubassin until 1704 when he passed away due to exhaustion.

1688-1690; 1694-1704

Person

Beaubassin, New Brunswick

Noël Baillargeon, “TROUVÉ, CLAUDE,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed October 1, 2021, https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/trouve_claude_2E.html.

1644

Touraine

1704

Guysborough, N.S

Priest; Sulpician; Missionary

French; possibly English and Indigenous languages

Claude Trouvé was born in 1644 in the province of Touraine. Trouvé studied theology and received the subdiaconate at the Sulpician seminary in Paris. In 1667, bishop Laval conferred the diaconate upon him and the priesthood in 1668. In 1667 he was sent to Canada, and in 1688 the bishop appointed him to the missions in Acadia. In 1690, at the time of the time of the time of attack on Port-Royal, Trouvé was captured and taken to Boston. Two more times, Trouvé was caught in a war, and it was believed that in 1704, Claude Trouvé passed away due to exhaustion.

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Conflict and Change in Early Canadian History (Carleton HIST 1301)

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