Nicolas Frémiot
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| Nicolas Frémiot | |
|---|---|
| Father Frémiot | |
| Occupation | Jesuit missionary |
Nicolas Frémiot, also known as Father Frémiot, was a Jesuit missionary and the founder of the Fort William Mission.
Mission work
- According to the mission's records, Frémiot was the first missionary to found the Fort William Mission, establishing it in 1848.[1]
- In 1848 he and Father Choné arrived at Fort William and founded a permanent mission there; Frémiot remained at the mission to labour among the Ojibwe, while Choné travelled to distant regions visiting scattered bands.[2]
- The two missionaries endured many hardships paddling along the shores of Lake Superior to reach the mission. The district was then a wilderness with no regular communication with the outside world, inhabited only by Hudson's Bay Company employees, traders, trappers, Ojibwe, and Métis.[1][2]
- After three years of toil at Fort William, Frémiot had converted few of the local Ojibwe, who for the most part kept to their traditional practices; he took consolation in the more successful labours of Choné.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 J. J. Wills."Till."[book].Papers of the Thunder Bay Historical Society.1911–1912.p. 141.Link.(Rights: public_domain | Access: open)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eugene Robin."The Founding of Fort William Mission and The Jesuit Missionaries."[book].Papers of the Thunder Bay Historical Society.1913.p. 348.Link.(Rights: public_domain | Access: open)
- ↑ Eugene Robin."The Founding of Fort William Mission and The Jesuit Missionaries."[book].Papers of the Thunder Bay Historical Society.1913.p. 349.Link.(Rights: public_domain | Access: open)