Jesuit missionary, born at Dieppe, France, in February, 1618;
died at Quebec, 3 May, 1697. At the age of twenty-one he entered
the Society of Jesus, and after his course of studies and
teaching in France, arrived in Canada in 1655. He was at once
deputed with Chaumonot to begin a central mission among the
Iroquois at Onondaga. The diary he kept of this journey and of
his return to Quebec in the year following gives a graphic
account of the terrifying conditions under which these journeys
were made. In 1661 he accompanied Druillettes, the Apostle of
Maine, on an expedition overland to Hudson Bay, the purpose of
which was to establish missions among the Indians in that region
and perchance to discover an outlet through Hudson Bay to the
China Sea. The expedition was unsuccessful and is only
chronicled as another abortive attempt to find the famous
Northwest Passage. In 1668 Dablon was on Lake Superior with
Allouez and Marquette, forming with them what Bancroft calls the
"illustrious triumvirate", and he was the