Jacques Bigot (26 July 1651 – April 1711) was a Jesuit priest who arrived in Canada in 1679 as a missionary to the

Abenakis The Abenaki (Abenaki: ''Wαpánahki'') are an Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States. They are an Algonquian-speaking people and part of the Wabanaki Confederacy. The Eastern Abenaki language was predom ...

. Bigot's first mission posting was at Sillery,

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, where the Abenakis had fled from the English. By 1683 he had relocated them to a site on the

Chaudière River The Chaudière River (French for "Cauldron" or "Boiler"; Abenaki: Kik8ntekw) is a river with its source near the Town of Lac-Mégantic, in southeast Quebec, Canada. From its source Lake Mégantic in the Estrie region, it runs northwards to flo ...

. The site had been granted to him by the

Governor General of New France Governor General of New France was the vice-regal post in New France from 1663 until 1760, and it was the last French vice-regal post. It was replaced by the British post of Governor of the Province of Quebec following the fall of New France. ...

, Antoine Lefèbvre de La Barre. Jacques strength was in his missionary work where he worked continually for the good of his community. His brother,

Vincent Bigot Vincent Bigot (15 May 1649, in Bourges – 7 September 1720, in Paris) was a French Jesuit priest and a missionary in Canada. Life history Vincent Bigot, like his brother Jacques, was sent to the Algonkin mission at Sillery upon his arrival in C ...

was active in the missions at the same time and rose to the position of superior general and, subsequently, the procurator of Canadian missions.

References

Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''

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