Abstract
In seventeenth-century New France, the Jesuit missionaries to the Huron people found themselves in an environment very different from the one they had known in France. From surroundings that consisted of great architectural structures, cities and roads, cultivated agricultural landscapes and dwindling and restricted forests, these missionaries found themselves in a landscape that by their standards was undeveloped, uncultivated and uncivilized. The wilderness they described was primitive, frightening and dangerous. This paper considers how these European missionaries made a place for themselves in their new environment. It explores their descriptions of this new landscape and their experience in the New World, which they provided in the Jesuit Relations, revealing how the missionaries perceived their place and what that place came to mean to them.
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