Massé, Enemond, one of the first Jesuits sent to New France; b. at Lyons, 1574; d. at Sillery, 12 May, 1646. He went to Acadia with Father Biard, and when it was found impossible to effect any good there, they established a new mission at the present Bar Harbor, Maine, which was soon after destroyed by the English—Massé being set adrift on the sea in an open boat. He succeeded in reaching a French ship and returned to France. In 1625 he again set sail for Canada, and remained there until the fall of Quebec. He returned a third time in 1632, but, as he was then advanced in age, he no longer laboured among the savages, but lived mostly at Sillery, which he built as a reservation for the converted Indians. A monument has recently been erected to his honour at this place on the site of the old Jesuit church which stood on the bank of the St. Lawrence a short distance above Quebec.
De RocuemonTerx, Les Jésuites et la Nouvelle France (3 vols., Paris, 1896); CampBe.y, Pioneer Priests of North America (New York, 1909).
T. J. Campbell.