Jean Dolbeau
Dublin Core
Title
Jean Dolbeau
Description
In Quebec City, Jean Dolbeau supported and encouraged the French colonizers. He also fought to convert Indigenous people to his religion, even taking an Indigenous boy back home with him to France to “educate” him.
Date
June 2 1615 to Summer of 1617; June 27 1618 to Fall of 1620
Type
Organization
Coverage
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Source
Frédéric Gingras, “DOLBEAU, JEAN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed October 4, 2021, https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/dolbeau_jean_1E.html.
Person Item Type Metadata
Birth Date
1589
Birthplace
Duchy of Anjou, France
Death Date
1652
Place of Death
Orléans
Occupation
Recollet priest; missionary in New France
Languages Spoken or Written
French
Biographical Text
He was a part of the Recollets of Balmette. Jean Dolbeau had the first mass celebrated in Quebec. He helped build a chapel named St.Charles with rooms for the other missionaries. He stayed in Quebec and ministered to the French. He would also try to convert Indigenous people. When he visited Quebec for the second time, he brought a jubilee- the first of Quebec. In 1620 he blessed the corner-stone of Canada’s first convent and seminary.
Bibliography
Frédéric Gingras, “DOLBEAU, JEAN,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed October 4, 2021, https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/dolbeau_jean_1E.html.
Portrait Credit
Jean Dolbeau - Détails du monument de Ste-Jeanne d'Arc-(Sillery) Québec, Daniel Abel, 2011, Flikr
Associated Course
Conflict and Change in Early Canadian History (Carleton HIST 1301)
Student Cataloguer
Carley Best
Citation
carleybest, “Jean Dolbeau,” Recipro: The history of international and humanitarian aid, accessed September 19, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/recipro/items/show/449.