Laure, Pierre-Michel (Missionary in Quebec, Canada)

Laure, Pierre-Michel (Missionary in Quebec, Canada)

When Pierre-Michel Laure first arrived to Quebec he was a teacher then he traveled to Saguenay, where he realized Catholicism was a forgotten religion among the Montagnais. Father Laure had a lot to teach the citizens about religion. Father Laure would hold religious services around Tadoussac and continued to carry out his ministry in Chicoutimi and Papinachois. Father Laure left important geographical and ethnological data, an “français-montagnais,”, maps, and plently more.

1720-1738

Person

Chicoutimi, Montagnais at Tadoussac, Papinachois at the post on the Îlets Jérémie

Victor Tremblay, “LAURE, PIERRE-MICHEL,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed October 1, 2021, https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/laure_pierre_michel_2E.html.
“Laure, Pierre-Michel.” Laure, Pierre-Michel - Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec. Accessed October 1, 2021. https://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=13535&type=pge.

1688

Orleans, France

1738

Les Éboulements, Canada (Quebec)

Teacher at the Jesuit college; Deacon; Priest; Missionary; Author of a dictionary Montagnais

French; Algonkin; Montagnais (Innu-aimun)

Pierre-Michel Laure was a Jesuit, a Roman Catholic order of brothers and priests, joined in 1707. He travelled to Canada shortly after, he was settled in Quebec. Soon after he became priests, he was trusted with rebuilding the abandoned mission to the Montagnais in the Saguenay region. He started teaching the Montagnais Catholicism. He traveled to the Montagnais at Tadoussac where he spent four winters and built a chapel and house for the missionary, there he taught more and more people about religion and the French language. During those summers he kept his ministry at Chicoutimi and to Papinoachois, at Îlets Jérémie. Over time Father Laure did some great things for his mission, and he would have liked to do more. In 1737, Father Laure was appointed resident missionary at Les Éboulements. He soon later passed after his last trip to Saguenay in 1738.

“Laure, Pierre-Michel.” Laure, Pierre-Michel - Répertoire du patrimoine culturel du Québec. Accessed October 1, 2021. https://www.patrimoine-culturel.gouv.qc.ca/rpcq/detail.do?methode=consulter&id=13535&type=pge.

Vers 1711-1738 Pierre-Michel Laure (Jean-François Régis)
https://rd.uqam.ca/LeJeune/1711Laure.html

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