Sillery  
The town of Sillery, on the St. Lawrence river, was named for Noël Brûlart de Sillery, of the Company of New France. Brûlart de Sillery set up one of the earliest Jesuit missions that attracted Wôbanaki converts, including Montagnais, Algonkin, and Kennebec. By 1676, 150 Wôbanaki people were living at Sillery, and the mission also started attracting Connecticut River valley refugees. In 1701, after Jesuit missionaries moved the mission church of Saint François de Sales from the Chaudière River, many of the Wôbanakiak at Sillery moved to Odanak or St. Francis.

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