Joseph Marest

Joseph Marest was a Jesuit missionary in New France in the late 1600s and early 1700s. He is known chiefly for remaining in Michilimackinac/ St. Ignace Mission as missionary to the Ottawas after Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac moved the center of the French fur trade from Fort de Buade to Fort Detroit in 1701.[1]

Born in Chartres, France 19 March 1653 and died in Montreal, October 1725.[2] He served in the straits of Mackinaw from 1700 - 1714[3] at St. Ignace and Michilimackinac. He came to New France about 1686 and arrived at Michilimackinac in 1688. After serving in 1690 with Nicolas Perrot's failed mission the Sioux country,[4] Marest returned to the straits of mackinaw. Joseph Marest was the brother of Jesuit Pierre-Gabriel Marest, who served in the Illinois country.[5]

References
  1. Marchand, Philip (2009-02-24). Ghost Empire: How the French Almost Conquered North America. McClelland & Stewart. p. 244. ISBN 9781551991757.
  2. "Biography – MAREST, JOSEPH-JACQUES – Volume II (1701-1740) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca. Retrieved 2016-04-13.
  3. Folwell, William Watts (1921-01-01). A History of Minnesota. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 44.
  4. Herbermann, Charles George; Pace, Edward Aloysius; Pallen, Condé Bénoist; Shahan, Thomas Joseph; Wynne, John Joseph (1913-01-01). The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church. Encyclopedia Press.
  5. Leavelle, Tracy Neal (2011-11-29). The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America. University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-0812207040.


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