Nicolas Aubry

Nicolas Aubry was a French priest who accompanied Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts to Acadia in 1604. There were two other clergy on this expedition, a priest who was to minister to the parish of Port Royal and a Protestant minister. This expedition had as its cartographer Samuel de Champlain. There were also 77 other settlers.

Champlain, in his writings, reported a violent quarrel over religion between the Protestant minister and a curé which ended in blows. The priest was, in all likelihood, Nicolas Aubry.

He also was recorded in writings from that time because of a mis-adventure which happened to him during his short visit to the New World. He became lost in the woods around Baie Sainte-Marie, Nova Scotia and survived for sixteen days on his own before being rescued from the shores of the Bay of Fundy by a fisherman. He returned to France after his recovery and the last known record of him is in 1611.

External links

"Nicolas Aubry". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.