Séminaire de Quebec Journal

This journal lists students enrolled in Petit Séminaire when it opened in 1668, including six Huron-Wendat children. The Séminaire de Quebec was founded in 1663.

Musée de la civilisation, Séminaire de Québec archive collection, MS2

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Names

Of those who entered and left the Pétit Séminaire

The Petit Séminaire opened on the first day of October in 1668, after having overcome several obstacles. The motives were to draw the children away from the corruption of sin and licentiousness where the naturalness of the country leads them. Inclining them to the ecclesiastic state and making them serve the Church with decency by teaching them the ? hymns and ceremonies.

What gave occasion to this establishment was that Mr. Talon, Intendant, received an order from the court to work to Frenchify the savages, and to succeed at this, suggested to Monseigneur de Laval, Bishop of Quebec, to remove the children from the Huron nation and ? the Algonquin, and to Frenchify them, it was necessary to mix them with French children. We removed everyone for whom we paid all or part of the board from the Collège des Jésuites. Then we promptly renovated the old house where Mrs. Couillard had lived, which we had purchased from her several years ago. The school was first composed of eight French boys and six Huron boys who entered on the Day of St. Denis. Here are the names.

Pierre Volant and Charles Volant (Claude, according to the Trois-Rivières record), twin brothers from, 14 years old, now priests
Brother Claude
Michel Poulin from Trois-Rivières, 14 years old, died in Quebec in 1694. He was released in 1670 without inclination
Pierre Pellerin from Quebec, 12 years old, who has since been a Récollet and called Father Ambroise
Jean Pinguet from Quebec, 17 years old: priest
Paul Vachon from Beauport, 12 years old; priest
J. B. Haslay from Lauzon Coast, 12 years old, left on 20 1669
Joseph Haondecheté, 12 years old
Joseph Honhatoron, 15 years old