La Loutre, Louis Joseph de

Sent to Canada by the Society of Foreign Mi ions at Paris, 1737. Mi ionary to the Micmac Indians, 1740. Vicar-general of Acadia under the bishop of Quebec. A determined enemy of British supremacy in Acadia. After the fall of Fort Beauséjour, escaped and fled to Quebec. The following year embarked for France, but on the voyage was taken prisoner by a British ve el and kept in confinement for eight years. Returned to France when peace concluded in 1663. Died in obscurity. Bib. : Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe ; Richard, Acadia; Selections from the Public Documents of Nova Scotia , ed. by Akins. See also Acadians, Expulsion of the.