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In the Province of Quebec, the Reverend John Quebec 

 Ogilvie, a missionary of the S. P. G. to the Indians 5e7*i&5o 2ll ~ 

 in what is now the State of New York, came to 

 Montreal &quot;in the capacity of Chaplain to the 

 British troops and to their Mohawk allies.&quot; 

 The Indians in the neighbourhood for some thirty 

 miles distant were &quot;extremely attached to the 

 ceremonials of the (Roman Catholic) Church,&quot; 

 and had been &quot;taught to believe the English 

 have no knowledge of the mystery of man s 

 redemption by Jesus Christ.&quot; As these Indians 

 spoke the Mohawk language Mr. Ogilvie &quot;en 

 deavoured to remove their prejudices, and by 

 showing them the Liturgy of our Church in their 

 mother tongue,&quot; he &quot;convinced many of them 

 that we were their fellow-Christians.&quot; The 

 Reverend John Stuart after various trials and Rev. j. 

 distresses &quot;as a loyalist in New York Province, 

 escaped to Canada. For some years his head 

 quarters were in Montreal, whence he visited the 

 Mohawks in that neighbourhood (La Chine) and 

 in Upper Canada.&quot; 



Ontario, with 19,640, ranks next to British Ontar 

 Columbia in the number of its Indians. Of the 

 total, those in the eastern and southern parts of 

 the province are among the most interesting 

 historically, the most advanced socially, and the 

 most prosperous of the whole Dominion. 



To follow the course of the stream of the 

 &quot;Spirit of Missions&quot; in their midst, we must re 

 trace our steps to pre-revolutionary days, and 



