Daniel's brother Charles was a sea-captain in the employ of the De Caen Company of France, representing Protestant-Huguenot interests.

[4] They arrived at St. Anne's Bay, Cape Breton, where the two Jesuits remained for a year ministering to the French who had settled there.

[3] In the spring of 1633, Daniel and Davost joined Captain Morieult on his way to Quebec, and arrived there on 24 June.

Davost stopped at Tadoussac on the way, a French trading settlement at the confluence of the Taddoussac and St. Lawrence rivers.

Shortly thereafter on 4 July,[6] the Iroquois made a sudden attack on the mission while most of the Huron men were away in Quebec trading.

He gave them general absolution and, immersing his handkerchief in a bowl of water, he shook it over them, baptizing the catechumens by aspersion.

[7] St. Anthony Daniel Roman Catholic church and parish, Kitchener, Ontario, is named for him.