In a small park by a southern Ontario lake, a museum has recreated a Huron village and the long house constructed to hold the handful of Jesuits who came here in 1636 to spread Christianity (and, sadly, smallpox).
Carla Mulford's anthology, Early American Writings (New York: Oxford, 2002) contains a selection from Brébeuf's Relation of What Occurred in the Country of the Hurons in the Year 1636 on pages 429-40. The following Google Earth placemark file takes you to a beautiful Autumn day with gorgeous orange foliage. Download 1636brebeuf.kmz (0.8K).
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