1673.] OLD LORETTE. 431 



upon the Jesuits who were at that time in their 

 country. This calamity was, four years after, fol- 

 lowed by another, when the best of the Huron war- 

 riors, including their leader, the crafty and valiant 

 Etienne Annaotaha, were slain, fighting side by 

 side with the French, in the desperate conflict of 

 the Long Sault.^ 



The attenuated colony, replenished by some 

 straggling bands of the same nation, and still num- 

 bering several hundred persons, was removed to 

 Quebec after the inroad in 1656, and lodged in 

 a square inclosure of palisades close to the fort.^ 

 Here they remained about ten years, when, the 

 danger of the times having diminished, they were 

 again removed to a place called Notre-Dame de 

 Foy, now Ste. Foi, three or four miles west of 

 Quebec. Six years after, when the soil was im- 

 poverished and the wood in the neighborhood 

 exhausted, they again changed their abode, and, 

 under the auspices of the Jesuits, who owned the 

 land, settled at Old Lorette, nine miles from Que- 

 bec. 



Chaumonot was at this time their missionary. 

 It may be remembered that he had professed spe- 

 cial devotion to Our Lady of Loretto, who, in 

 his boyhood, had cured him, as he believed, of a 

 distressing malady.^ He had always cherished the 

 idea of building a chapel in honor of her in Canada, 



1 Relation, 1660 (anonymous), 14. 



2 In a plan of Quebec of 1660, the " Fort des Hurons " is laid down 

 on a spot adjoining the north side of the present Place d'Armes. 



3 See ante, p. 102. 



