Nouvel, Henri

Nouvel, Henri

Henri Nouvel arrived in Quebec in August 1648 where he spent 40 years of service to the Indigenous peoples. In 1673, Nouvel informed Governor Louis de Buade de Frontenac about possible fur trading threats with the Indigenous people of Quebec. Father Nouvel also learned many of the native language of the Indigenous people which is how we came about the threat of the fur trade. Henri Novel also intervened in a conflict involving a Jesuit missionary by the name of Antoine Laumet over Indigenous raids. During this time Henri Nouvel was also writing and describing the customs and culture of the Indigenous people on the Northshore. He was the first European to give this account.

Arrived in Quebec city in August 1648 and did missionary work until 1669

Person

Quebec, Canada

Léon Pouliot, “NOUVEL, HENRI,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed September 30, 2021, https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/nouvel_henri_2E.html.

Media of New York, Henri Novel. People Pill 2020. https://peoplepill.com/people/henri-nouvel-1

Born 1621 or 1624

Pezena department of Herault in the Occitanie region of Southern France

Dead between October 8, 1701 and October 28, 1702

Place of death is Baie des Puants (Green Bay, Wis)

Priest; Jesuit; missionary

Assuming french as first language; studied Ameridian language in his first year of Quebec

Henri Nouvel became the first voyager to describe the people and the territory of the Northshore in Quebec. Nouvel was most famous for his voyages to the Montagnais and Papinachois countries. Henri Nouvel was a part of the Society of Jesus making him a Jesuit of the Roman Catholic church. Nouvel was appointed a Priest sometime before he joined the Jesuit society. Father Nouvel spent his later years at the college of Quebec and taking part in occasional missions to Ottawa. Henri Nouvel’s missionary work in the last 30 years of his life involved a team under Nouvel’s direction. They are now famous missionary workers.

Digital Museum of Canada. The Archives- Father Henri Nouvel. Archeo-Mamu Côte-Nord 2020.https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/pointe-aux-outardes/story/the-archives-father-henri-nouvel/

Murdock, Reily. Man offers to help fund marker honouring natives if “first white man” stays in Saginaw.Saginaw and Bay City news. July 14, 2020
https://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw-bay-city/2020/07/man-offers-to-help-fund-marker-honoring-natives-if-first-white-man-monument-stays-in-saginaw.html

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

Megan Williams