Jacques Buteux

From 1622 to 1625 he studied philosophy at the Collège in La Flèche, where the revered Acadian missioner Énemond Massé was in residence prior to his second trip to New France.

[2] Buteux arrived in Quebec on 24 June 1634 and his superior, Paul Le Jeune assigned him to the trading post at Trois-Rivières, under command of the Sieur de Laviolette.

[3] An effort to establish a native settlement at the Cap de Trois-Rivières, on the left bank of the St. Maurice River having failed, French settlers were recruited.

Buteux had left letters and many documents in the parish registers giving historians a good profile of his time in Canada.

A National Trail section bearing the name of Jacques-Buteux connects the rest stop of highway 155 of Grandes-Piles on the road 159.

[6] The microbrewery Le Trou du Diable in Shawinigan created a type of abbey beer in his honor.