St Mary Amongst The Hurons

Although it's now a village in Ontario, the place is named after one of the first settlements of French Canada and thus holds the word Saint in its name. The settlement was peculiar because it was only Jesuit priests who lived there. Of course with the aim to conver the native Huron People to the catholic believe, in which they succeded very well.

There is a historical site that shows the buildings of that time and explains how the relations was between the friendly and curious Huron people and the strict but as curious Jesuit fathers. THey sort of lived 'happily' together, until the Iroquois came to murder the Huron and the Jesuits. The Iroquois are fierce warriors who did not want to collaborate with the white people. They rocked! But they were violent too. The stories of how the Jesuit fathers died is cruel literature. Scalping and boiling them alive, taking out their hearts and eating it. Cool stuff. The historical site however, focuses more on the nice interaction between the First Peoples and the Jesuits. But not a must if you visited Val Jalbert and Upper Canadian Village first, which we had done.

Ps: The quaint towns around Huron Lake aren't quite as quaint as guide books describe. They were boring really. Skip them! But do drive around Lake Muskoka, the villages there were nicer.