Champlain returned from France to Quebec in the month of June of the following year, and again took over the government of New France.  He brought with him Fathers Masse and Jean de Brebeuf, and their arrival was the dawn of a brighter era for the Canadian missions.  The Jesuits founded, during the same year, a mission at Three Rivers, and another at Ihonatiria in the Huron country.  The mission-stations at Miscou and at Cape Breton were also opened at about the same time, but they were all, practically speaking, dependent upon the liberality of the Hundred Associates.

The Jesuits in their Relations of 1635 regarded the establishment of the mission of Notre Dame des Anges as destined to fulfil three designs which they had in view for the honour and glory of God.  These were:  (1.) To erect a college for the education of young Frenchmen who were becoming more and more numerous. (2.) To found a seminary for young Indians for the purpose of civilizing or improving their moral condition. (3.) To extend the missions of the Jesuits among the Hurons and other savage tribes.  These three designs were in a measure accomplished by this means.  From the year 1626 Quebec was the principal centre of Canadian missions, which extended from Tadousac to the Great Lakes.  Seeing that the French were all gathering in the vicinity of Fort St. Louis, and that their convent was exposed to attacks of the Indians, the Jesuits decided to build their new college upon the promontory of Cape Diamond.  In the year 1637 the Hundred Associates conceded twelve acres of land to the Jesuits near Fort St. Louis, upon which they built their college and a church, some years after.  The seminary for young Indians was opened in the year 1627, and Father Charles Lalemant conducted a class for them as long as there were pupils to attend.

The seminary of Notre Dame des Anges has an interesting though brief history.  It was Father Le Jeune’s intention to have removed it near to the fort.  The question of transferring it to the Huron country, in order to obtain a greater number of pupils had been discussed, but there were many reasons against the change, the principal being that the proximity to the Huron families would have caused the fathers annoyance.  The seminary was, therefore, continued at Notre Dame des Anges, where it remained until it was closed.  Father Le Jeune wrote to the Provincial in France on August 28th, 1636:—­

“I consider it very probable that, if we had a good building in Kebec we would get more children through the very same means by which we despaired of getting them.  We have always thought that the excessive love the savages bear their children would prevent our obtaining them.  It will be through this very means that they will become our pupils; for, by having a few settled ones, who will attract and retain the others, the parents, who do not know what it is to refuse their children, will let them come without opposition.  And, as they will be