# Pierre Raffeix

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**Pierre Raffeix** (1633–1724) was a French [Jesuit](/source/Jesuit) missionary in [Canada](/source/Canada).

## Biography

He was born at [Clermont-Ferrand](/source/Clermont-Ferrand), entered the Society of Jesus in 1653, and came to Canada in 1663. In 1668 he established near [Montreal](/source/Montreal) a settlement for converted [Iroquois](/source/Iroquois) (now [Kahnawake](/source/Kahnawake)).

In 1671 he replaced [Étienne de Carheil](/source/%C3%89tienne_de_Carheil) in the [Cayuga](/source/Cayuga_people) mission, and afterwards went to the [Seneca Indians](/source/Seneca_Indians) until 1680.

Raffeix was a cartographer, as the following surviving maps bear witness:

- "Carte des regions les plus occidentales du Canada", dated 1676, and bearing a legend relating to the voyage of discovery of [Jacques Marquette](/source/Jacques_Marquette) and [Louis Joliet](/source/Louis_Joliet);
- "Le lac Ontario avec les pays adjacents et surtout les cinq nations iroquoises";
- "La Nouvelle-France, de l'Océan au lac Erié, et, au sud, jusqu'à la Nouvelle-Angleterre".

After his return to Quebec he acted as procurator to the mission. He spent two years at [Jeune-Lorette](/source/Jeune-Lorette) (1699–1700), shortly after the final migration of the remnants of the [Huron](/source/Wyandot_people) nation. He died at [Quebec](/source/Quebec).

## References

- Campeau, Lucien. ["Raffeix, Pierre"](http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/raffeix_pierre_2E.html). Vol. 2.

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