On September 14th the English fleet set out carrying Champlain, the Jesuits, the Recollets, and two-thirds of the French, that is to say, nearly the whole of the colony.  The passage was short though difficult, and eleven of the crew died from dysentery.  On October 20th the vessels reached Plymouth, where Kirke was much disappointed to learn that the treaty of peace signed on April 24th had been confirmed on September 16th.  All the French, except Champlain, took passage for France at Dover.  Champlain proceeded directly to London, where he met the French ambassador, M. de Chateauneuf, and related to him the events which had taken place in Canada, and urged him to take steps for its restoration to France.

The fathers disembarked at Calais at the end of October.  Father Masse returned to his former position of minister at the college of La Fleche.  Father Anne de Nouee went to Bourges.  Father de Brebeuf entered the college of Rouen, where he had laboured previously, and three other Jesuits whom we find afterwards in Canada, Father Charles Lalemant, Father Jogues and Father Simon Lemoyne, were at that time professors in this college.  Father Masse and Father de Brebeuf were soon to resume their ministration in this country, which they were forced to abandon at a time when they had hoped to see the realization of their noble mission.  L’Abbe Faillon has written that the family of Hebert alone remained at Quebec after the surrender, but this is incorrect.  The truth is that at least five families remained in Quebec.  It was God’s will that the most prominent and influential men should leave for France, but He also ordained that a few heroic settlers or possessors of New France should remain.  If their remaining was favourable to France Champlain deserves the credit, for he did more than any of his countrymen to bring it about.  The population of Quebec or of the whole colony in July, 1629, was divided as follows:—­Inhabitants, twenty-three; interpreters, eleven; clerks, fourteen; missionaries, ten; domestics, seven; French, arrived from the Huron country, twenty.  This makes a total number of eighty-five persons.

The following persons remained at Quebec:—­Guillaume Hubou and his wife, Marie Rollet, widow of Louis Hebert; Guillaume Hebert; Guillaume Couillard, and his wife Guillemette Hebert, and their three children; Abraham Martin, and his wife, Marguerite Langlois, and their three children; Pierre Desportes, and his wife, Francoise Langlois, and their daughter Helene; Nicholas Pivert, his wife, Marguerite Lesage, and their niece; Adrien Duchesne and his wife; Jean Foucher, Etienne Brule, Nicholas Marsolet, Le Baillif, Pierre Reye, Olivier Le Tardif.  The missionaries who returned to France were:  Three Jesuits, two Recollets, two Brothers Jesuits and three Brothers Recollets, ten in all.  Their names were:  Fathers Jesuits Enemond Masse, Anne de Nouee and Jean de Brebeuf, Fathers Recollets Joseph de la Roche d’Aillon, and Joseph Le Caron, Brothers Jesuits Francois Charton and Gilbert Burel, and the Recollet Friars Gervais Mohier, Jean Gaufestre and Pierre Langoissieux.  Among the clerks who returned home were Corneille de Vendremur, Thierry-Desdames, Eustache Boulle, and Destouches.