Where is ste.marie among the hurons located

Explore, hear the legends in the Longhouse and join in. Touch history, and experience life at this historic French Jesuit mission in the heart of the Huron-Wendat First Nation. Sainte-Marie now stands re-created on its original location where the compelling story is brought to life. In , the Jesuits, along with French lay workers, began construction of a fenced community that included barracks, a church, workshops, residences, and a sheltered area for Native visitors.

School Visits. Group Visits. Sainte-Marie among the Hurons is now closed for the regular season. Please be advised that the reservation line is closed.

Only restaurant packages are available meal and admission to First Light included. Download our free APP! By , Sainte-Marie was a wilderness home to 66 French men, representing one-fifth of the entire population of New France.

Sainte-Marie's brief history ended in , when members of the mission community were forced to abandon and burn their home of nearly ten years. Located near Midland in the beautiful Southern Georgian Bay area, this world-renowned reconstruction illustrates the interaction of the French and Wendat nations.

Guides in period costume present several hands-on demonstrations of French and Indigenous activities at the site, such as canoeing, blacksmithing, food preparation and storytelling, breathing new life into this missionary centre. Meanwhile, visitors also discover the basis of French and Indigenous cultures at the time, and the nature of the tragic events that occurred in Huronia. The aim of the interpretation program is to foster mutual understanding and reconciliation.

Some , people visit Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons every year. The fortified village of Sainte-Marie comprised 22 buildings when the Jesuit missionaries themselves set fire to it in This village embodied the scope of the project that inspired them in the first decades of New France.

They chose Huronia because this great Indigenous Nation was the principal ally of the French in the fur trade and was sedentary. The missionaries were able to live permanently among the Huron-Wendat and work every day at converting them.

Sainte-Marie was their base of operations. The missionaries could rest there, obtain supplies or even take refuge if necessary, between their stays in the Huron villages that surrounded them. The objective of the missionaries was to transform the customs and beliefs of the people they called the Huron. It was a major challenge, as this proud and respected people had a highly developed political organization and enjoyed great influence.