Charles Albanel

Charles Albanel (1616 - January 11th, 1696) was a priest Jésuite and a Explorateur French in News-France.

Born in Auvergne, it entered to the Jesuits in 1633. In 1649, it arrived at Canada, in Tadoussac, where he is missionary until in 1671.

At the time when the Hudson' S Bay Company began its operations, he was a chief of a French part of the company which explored the Rivière Saguenay, the Lac Mistassini, and the Rivière Rupert until the Hudson Bay claiming the area for the France.

Chaplain of the military forwarding of the marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy against Iroquois in 1666, it was of passage to Holy-Foy in 1670. On another voyage, it was captured in 1674 by the English and was brought back in England. After its return in 1676 to the Canada, it served in missions in the green Baie in the Michigan and died in Sault Co.-Marie on January 11th 1696.

References

  • biographical Dictionary of the clergy Canadian-French , Jean-Baptist-Arthur Allaire, Montreal: Printing works of the Catholic school of deaf-mute, 1908-1934.

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