Chabanel, Noél

Jesuit mi ionary in the Huron country, 1643. Had been a profe or of rhetoric in France, before coming to Canada. When the Hurons were driven from their country by the Iroquois, in 1649, he and Garnier led their demoralized flock to the Island of St. Joseph, in Match a dash Bay, an inlet of Georgian Bay. Even here the Iroquois followed them, and attacked the mi ion of St. Jean, Dec. 7, 1649. Chabanel had left the place a short time before, and so escaped the general ma acre. He, however, fell a victim to one of his own Hurons, who confe ed that he had murdered the mi ionary and thrown his body into a river. Index : L Died a martyr, 62. Bib. : Parkman, Jesuits in North America .