42 Inasmuch 



the Grand River Reserve was purchased from the 

 Missisauga. 



A remnant of the Huron Nation made its 

 escape, finally, to Quebec. The majority of the 

 survivors, however, were carried away captive 

 into the Iroquois country. A Jesuit Father 

 mentions meeting, among the Iroquois, with 

 about one thousand Hurons, many of whom were 

 still practising the rites of their Christian faith. 

 A prominent Huron chief, John Baptist, was 

 baptized at Onondaga having been adopted by 

 that tribe. 



After the destruction of the Hurons, the 

 Iroquois made peace with the French and invited 

 missionaries to take up their residence among 

 them. Three years later the work was aban 

 doned, the Jesuits making their escape through a 

 stratagem. Their converts, known as the &quot;pray 

 ing Indians of Canada,&quot; are, in their descendants, 

 to be seen to-day in the Iroquois of Caughnawaga 

 near Montreal. 



These heroic and self-sacrificing efforts of the 



church * Jesuits on behalf of the Indians were the indirect 



work &quot; cause of the establishment of Church of England 



mission work amongst the Six Nations. A consid- 



1700 erable number had been drawn over to Canada 



and settled in two communities near Mount 



Royal. One of the Chiefs of these * Praying 



Indians of Canada&quot; addressed the Government 



Commissioners at Albany, N.Y., and said, &quot;We 



are now come to trade and not to speak of religion ; 



only this much I must say, all the while before I 



