Nicolas Aubry was a French priest who accompanied
Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts
Pierre Dugua de Mons (or Du Gua de Monts; c. 1558 – 1628) was a French merchant, explorer and colonizer. A Calvinist, he was born in the Château de Mons, in Royan, Saintonge (southwestern France) and founded the first permanent French set ...
to Acadia in 1604. There were two other clergy on this expedition, a priest who was to minister to the parish of
Port Royal and a Protestant minister. This expedition had as its
cartographer Samuel de Champlain. There were also 77 other settlers.
Champlain, in his writings, reported a violent quarrel over religion between the Protestant minister and a
curé
A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...
which ended in blows. The priest was, in all likelihood, Nicolas Aubry.
He also was recorded in writings from that time because of a mis-adventure which happened to him during his short visit to the
New World
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. He became lost in the woods around
Baie Sainte-Marie,
Nova Scotia
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Most of the population are native Eng ...
and survived for sixteen days on his own before being rescued from the shores of the
Bay of Fundy by a fisherman. He returned to France after his recovery and the last known record of him is in 1611.
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Roman Catholic priests in New France
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