Chateaubriand reproduces the life-story of Father Aubery in the character of the missionary in his Atala.
He arrived in Canada in 1694 and completed his studies at Quebec where he was also instructor for five years, and where he was ordained in September 1699.
It was on the Saint John River, at Hay's Creek,[3] and appears to have been abandoned by the Franciscans about a year earlier.
[1] Aubery helped negotiate between the English and the Indians the Treaty of Casco in June 1727, obtaining better terms than those offered the year before.
To these memorials he added a map, giving the boundaries as defined by the treaty of Utrecht.