The Recollets (English: Recollects) were a French branch of the Roman Catholic order, the Franciscans (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Minorum), first established in France about 1570. According to one historian, "Recollection-houses are, strictly speaking, those monasteries to which friars desirous of devoting themselves to prayer and penance can withdraw to consecrate their lives to spiritual recollection". The French Récollets had 11 provinces with 2534 cloisters by the late 18th century. The order was suppressed during the French Revolution.
Canada
The Récollets were important as missionaries to the French colonies in Canada, although they were displaced there by the Jesuits. The first Récollet missionaries arrived at Quebec City, from Rouen on June 2, 1615. The Récollet fathers are said to have brewed the first beer in New France in 1620. They left New France in 1629 but returned in 1670. After the British conquest, the order was prohibited from recruiting new members. The last Canadian Récollet Brother Louis died in 1848 at Quebec City.
Jouve, Odoric-Marie. Dictionnaire biographique des Récollets missionaires en Nouvelle-France, 1615-1645 - 1670-1849, province franciscaine Saint-Joseph du Canada. Saint Laurent, Quebec : Bellarmin, 1996. ISBN 2890078159.
Rue des Récollets, Québec (http://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/fr/ma_ville/toponymie/rues/recollets.shtml)
Black Robes (http://www.collectionscanada.ca/explorers/h24-1430-e.html)
Order of Friars Minor - see General History of the Order Second Period (1517-1909) (3) The Recollects (http://www.ewtn.com/padrepio/franciscan/ofm.htm)
The Indians expressed a readiness to give the Recollet Daillon a passage; they knew the 'grey-robes'; but they did not know the Jesuits, the 'fl-robes,' and they hesitated to take Brebeuf and Noue, urging as an excuse that so portly a man as Brebeuf would be in danger of upsetting their frail canoes.
The Recollet, however, had instructions from his superior Le Caron to go to the country of the Neutrals, of which Champlain's interpreter, Etienne Brule, had reported glowingly, but which was as yet untrodden by the feet of missionaries.
Most interesting, however, to the Jesuits and Recollets were the provisions in the charter of the new company to the effect that none but Catholics should be allowed to come to the colony, and that during fifteen years the company should defray the expenses of public worship and support three missionaries at each trading-post.
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