Cover of the Jesuit Relations for 1662-1663

The Relations des Jésuites de la Nouvelle-France, commonly abbreviated as the Jesuit Relations, are the annual reports which were issued by the superior of the Jesuit missions in New France to the Jesuit overseer in France between the years of 1632 and 1673. Narrative in format, the reports were written in French and originally intended to inform the procurator of the progress of the conversion work among the First Nations people of the New World. Eventually, the reports came to be oriented more towards the general public with the aim of gathering financial support for the missions and to recruit new settlers to the colonies. They remain an important primary source in the study of the early history of New France and Native societies in the early years of European contact. The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... Capital Quebec Language(s) French Religion Roman Catholicism Government Monarchy King See List of French monarchs Governor See list of Governors Legislature Sovereign Council of New France Historical era Ancien Régime in France  - Royal Control 1655  - Articles of Capitulation of Quebec 1759  - Articles of Capitulation of Montreal 1760  - Treaty... First Nations is a term of ethnicity used in Canada. ... Carte dAmérique, Guillaume Delisle, c. ... In historical scholarship, a primary source is a document, or other source of information that was created at or near the time being studied, by an authoritative source, usually one with direct personal knowledge of the events being described. ...

Authorship and publication

Beginning in 1632, the Relations were published annually until 1673. ^[1]

Notes

1. ^ Thwaites, p. 41.

Bibliography

Relations des jésuites: contenant ce qui s’est passé de plus remarquables dans les missions des pères de la Compagnie de Jésus dans la Nouvelle-France. Quebec: A. Côté, 1858.

Donnely, Joseph P. Thwaites' Jesuit Relations: Errata and Addenda. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1967.

McCoy, James C. Jesuit relations of Canada, 1632-1673: a bibliography. Paris: A. Rau, 1937.

Thwaites, Reuben Gold [editor and translator]. The Jesuit Relations and allied documents : travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in New France, 1610-1791 : the original French, Latin, and Italian texts, with English translations and notes. Cleveland: Burrows Bros. Co., 1896-1901. In seventy-three volumes.

External links

• The text of the Relations in English.

• A general overview of the Relations from Library and Archives Canada.

• A brief account of the publishing and distribution history of the Relations from Library and Archives Canada.