VIMONT, BARTHÉLEMY, priest, Jesuit, missionary, third superior
of the Canadian mission; b. 17 Jan. 1594 at Lisieux (Normandy);
d. 13 July 1667 at Vannes in France. He entered the Society of
Jesus at Rouen on 16 Nov. 1613. After his noviciate he took his
philosophy at the Collège at La Flèche (1615–18), then taught
for one year at Rennes and three years at Eu. From 1622 to 1626
he studied theology at the Collège de Clermont, in Paris;
finally he returned to Eu as bursar (1626–29). It was from there
that he left for Canada, on 26 June 1629, on one of Capt.
Charles Daniel’s ships; this convoy was also carrying Fathers
Philibert Noyrot and Alexandre de Vieuxpont. The captain, cast
up by a storm on the coast of Cape Breton Island, towards the
end of August, built a fort at the entrance to the Grand-Cibou
(today called St. Ann’s), where he left a garrison with Father
Vimont as the chaplain. Vieuxpont, after surviving the shipwreck
in which Father Noyrot had perished, joined Vimont. Together
they started to preach t