Jean Le Sueur ( – 29 November 1668), also known as ''Abbé Saint-Sauveur'', was a priest from France who arrived at the colony of

New France New France (french: Nouvelle-France) was the area colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spai ...

in 1634 on the same ship as

Jean Bourdon Jean Bourdon ( – 1668) was the first engineer-in-chief and land-surveyor in the colony of New France, and the first attorney-general of the Conseil Superieur. Bourdon came to New France in 1634 and he was designated as the engineer to Gover ...

. The arrival of these two people is important to their history because a friendship developed that affected both their lives. Bourdon received a number of parcels of land as payments for various services. One, a fief that he named Saint-Jean, was given to him by Governor

Charles de Montmagny Charles Jacques Huault de Montmagny (c. 1583 to 1599 – 4 July 1657) was governor of New France from 1636 to 1648. He was the first person to bear the title of Governor of New France and succeeded Samuel de Champlain, who governed the colony ...

in 1639 and he later built a chapel there for his friend, Abbé Le Sueur. In 1650, Le Sueur moved to the site where the chapel was being built. It became the parish church for

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hill, under the ministry of Abbé Le Sueur, who also became the tutor to the Bourdon progeny. The chapel was even mentioned in a 1660 dispatch to ''

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'' by Bishop Laval.

External links

Biography at ''the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''
1668 deaths Roman Catholic priests in New France Year of birth unknown 1598 births {{Canada-clergy-stub