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About Charles-Michel Mesaiger
- Charles-Michel Mesaiger (7 March 1689 – 7 August 1766) was a French Jesuit priest who spent some time in missionary work in present-day Canada. Mesaiger arrived in Canada in 1722 and spent a number of years in the mission to the Ottawas at Michilimackinac.
- He subsequently became a chaplain to the French and joined Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La VĂ©rendrye and his party as they began a serious exploration of the land to the west of Fort Kaministiquia.
- He was instrumental in sending out the first party which built Fort St.
- Pierre on Rainy Lake in 1731.
- In 1732, he accompanied the la VĂ©rendryes to that fort and beyond to Lake of the Woods where they built Fort St.
- Charles. Poor health forced Mesaiger to return to the east in 1733.
- He had influenced the beginning of the La VĂ©rendrye explorations which would continue to push westward.
- He also became the first missionary to travel this far west.
- His replacement, Jean-Pierre Aulneau, was to become a martyr in carrying on the mission that Mesaiger had started.
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