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of the great tragedies of the human race had been wrouglit and people 

 after people had well nigh been wiped otï tlie face of the earth. 



But so-called extermination is never quite complete, — there are 

 usually some remnants. The traeiug of the remnants of the Hurons 

 and the Petuns is the next chapter in our story. Following the notes 

 of Father Martin, who edited the Canadian edition of Bressani's history^ 

 of the Jesuits in Xew France, we can divide the remnants into five 

 groups, 



1. A considerable number of the Hurons became incorporated in 

 the Iroquois N"ation. Many were taken prisoners and adopted into the 

 confederacy ; others, strange to say, appear to have gone by choice. They 

 maintained their identity for many ye^U's. 



5. Another band sought refuge among the Eries lonly to be wiped 

 out later on when the Iroquois so completely destroyed that nation. 



3. In the year following the great dispersion the Jesuit priests, 

 accompanied by a band of Hurons, set out from Christian Island, 

 taking the old trade routa After ntnning the gaitutlet of Iroquois 

 guerilla bands, they finally reached Qutbec. The Hurons were settled 

 upon the Island of Orleans.- Thither the relentless Iroquois followed 

 them and made life so uncertain that, after eight years of ceaseless 

 atfctcks, they sought shelter for a time right in the heart of the city 

 adjacent to the fort. Afterwards they were removed to Beauport. again 

 to old Lorette, and in 16 T 9 finally located at new Lorette, Huron Lorette, 

 as it is called, where their descendants live to this day, making 

 moccassins and snowshoes, embroidering fancy deerskin articles and also 

 acting as guides to the hunters and tourists. Their houses or cabins 

 clu?ter abolit the old church, erected in 1731, in imitation of the Casa 

 Sancta of Lorette in Italy. 



This little band of 300, at Lorette, is much visited "by tourists to old 

 Quebec, Many writers in mistake refer to it as the sole remnant of the 

 old Hurons. As it is so well known and is kept so much in public view, 

 we need make n.o further reference to it than to repeat the words of 

 Father Martin, written in 1852 : 



'There (at Lorette) is found in our day all that remains of this 

 Xation once so celebrated. After having lost its country, its language, 

 its customs and a part of its nationality, it is disappearing little by little 



1 See appendix to Bress?.ni"s Missions des Jésuites dans la Nouvelle 

 France. (Montreal. 1S52) pp. 309-ùIS. 



- Students interested in following- up the history of the dispersed 

 Hurons should read the story of Dollar's Defence of the Long Sault. See 

 Parkman's The old Regime in Canada, chapter AT and Burrows Jesuit Relations 

 vol. XLV p. 241 chapter R' of Relation of 1659-60 " Of the Condition of the 

 Huron Nation and of its latest defeat by the Iroquois Nation." 



