At St-François , Ile d'Orléans
A romantic Inn on a prestigious Island
On the bank of the majestic St-Lawrence River, a magnific Inn located in a unique, calm, and imposing site in St-François de l'Île d'Orléans, near Quebec.
Menu" à la carte", Table d'hôte, Menu for groups. Reception room and packsge, wedding room and package for weddind
Why is it called Chaumonot?
We wish to honour the memory of Pierre Chaumonot, one of the fathers of New France. His name, now a part of the history of Orleans lsland, takes us back to his arrival in Quebec in 1639.
As a Jesuit priest, Chaumonot was sent from France to work as a missionary among the Hurons. Born in France in 161 l, he was ordained in Italy in 1639, and left for Canada in the summer of that same year, accompanied by Ursuline and Hospitalière nuns.
The illustrious Father Chaumonot became identified with the Hurons, and it was he who led them to Orleans Island on March 29, 1651. It took all the influence of this tireless evangelist to convince the Hurons to work the land; hunting and fishing had always been their only preoccupations.
Of ail the Jesuit missionaries to work in New France. Father Chaumonot was probably the one to have best understood the character of the Hurons. Under the leadership of this zealous missionary, the Huron colony became a model Christian community.
ln 1692, Father Chaumonot was forced to retire to the Jestuit college because of old age and ill health. He died there on February 21 1693, at the venerable age of 82.
