Jesuit Relations, annual reports and narratives written by
French Jesuit missionaries at their stations in New France
(America) between 1632 and 1673. They are invaluable as
historical sources for French exploration and native relations
and also as a record of the various indigenous tribes of the
region before the influence of settlers and missionaries had
changed them. Published originally in Paris in annual volumes,
they were translated and edited by R. G. Thwaites (73 vol.,
1896–1901). See bibliography by J. C. McCoy, Jesuit Relations of
Canada, 1632–1673 (1937, repr. 1973). The Columbia Electronic
Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University
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