Pierre Raffeix

• Name — Pierre Raffeix • Born — 1633 • Birthplace — Clermont-Ferrand, France • Died — 1724 • Place of death — Québec, Canada • Occupation — Missionary, cartographer Pierre Raffeix (1633–1724) was a French Jesuit missionary in Canada.

He was born at Clermont-Ferrand, entered the Society of Jesus in 1653, and came to Canada in 1663. In 1668 he established near Montreal a settlement for converted Haudenosaunee (now Kahnawake). In 1671 he replaced Étienne de Carheil in the Cayuga mission, and afterwards went to the Seneca Indians until 1680. Raffeix was a cartographer, as the following surviving maps bear witness: • "Carte des regions les plus occidentales du Canada", dated 1676, and bearing a legend relating to the voyage of discovery of Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet; • "Le lac Ontario avec les pays adjacents et surtout les cinq nations iroquoises"; • "La Nouvelle-France, de l'Océan au lac Erié, et, au sud, jusqu'à la Nouvelle-Angleterre". After his return to Quebec he acted as procurator to the mission. He spent two years at Jeune-Lorette (1699–1700), shortly after the final migration of the remnants of the Wendat (Huron) nation. He died at Quebec.