Jean de Quen [SEP] date of death
Jean de Quen
Jean de Quen (May in Amiens, France – 8 October 1659, in Quebec City) was a French Jesuit missionary, priest and historian. As head of Jesuit missions of New France, he founded the missions to Saguenay. In 1647, Jean de Quen was the first European to reach the shores of Piékouagami (Lac Saint-Jean).
Early life.
Born , in Amiens, Picardie, Jean de Quen was about 17-years-old when he joined the Jesuits on 13 September 1620
canoe. Bringing two Montagnais with him as guides, Jean de Quen travelled up the Saguenay to Chicoutimi, and took the river of the same name as far as lakes Kenogami and Kénogamishish. The group then entered Lake Saint-Jean via Belle-Rivière.
Upon seeing Lac St-Jean, Quen wrote in his journal: 
In 1651, Father Jean de Quen founded the Ange-Gardien mission, the first permanent European settlement at Sept-Îles.
Quen died of fever on October 8, 1659, and