Excerpt from The Tourist's Guide to Quebec
During this time Champlain had visited France, and, returning to Canada in 1615, brought with him four priests of the Recollet order, whose convent, erected 1620, was the first building of the kind in Canada. The Recollets were followed, in 1644, by a small body of Jesuits, five in number; but for some.
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