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Étienne Dufresne, S.J. was born on May 17, 1859 in St-Pie, Quebec, and following Classics studies at Collège St-Hyacinthe, joined the Society of Jesus on July 30, 1879. Father Dufresne completed his formation between Collège Sainte-Marie, Sault-au- Récollet, and the Holy Cross Mission in Wikwemikong, where he taught at the residential school for four years. He was ordained a priest on October 28, 1887.

Father Dufresne returned to Northern Ontario following his ordination. He would proceed to spend the next 63 years between Manitoulin Island, the East Shore of the Georgian Bay, Waubaushene and the French River, and the North Shore of Lake Huron from Sagamok to Garden River. In 1930, Father Dufresne relocated to the residential school in Spanish, Ontario where he worked at the local parish and nearby mission stations. In 1947, waning health inclined Father Dufresne to retire to the infirmary at Collège de l’Immaculée-Conception in Montreal. He died in 1950 after 70 years in the Society of Jesus.

Paul Méry, S.J. (né Paul Lechien) was born in Tournai, Belgium, on November 18, 1880. He attended Jesuit school in Tournai and then entered the Society of Jesus in Arlon, Belgium in 1899. Father Méry’s poor health made the completion of his studies difficult, and after spending 1902 to 1912 studying between Tronchienne, Tournai, and Louvain, he was advised to leave the Society of Jesus because of it.

In 1913, Father Méry changed his name from Lechien to Méry and relocated to Canada, where he was hired to teach at Collège Sacré-Coeur in Sudbury from 1912 to 1914 and then at Collège Saint-Marie in Montreal from 1914 to 1916. He reapplied to enter the Society of Jesus, and upon acceptance, recommenced his studies between the novitiate at Sault-au-Récollet and Immaculée-Conception; from 1918 to 1920, he returned to Collège Saint-Marie to study and teach. For the next four years, Father Méry was located at Collège Saint-François-Xavier in Edmonton, where he was ordained in 1921.

Father Méry spent the next seven years teaching and serving as a pastor at Campion College in Regina, the residential school in Spanish, Ontario (1928 to 1929), the Jesuit Parish in Vancouver, and Sault Ste. Marie. In 1932, he was appointed Superior and teacher at the residential school in Spanish, then worked as treasurer at Regiopolis College in Kingston, Ontario from 1937 to 1942. That year, Father Méry relocated to Imaculée-Conception where he spent 25 years in charge of registering parish marriages. He retired to the infirmary at Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, and died two years later, in 1970.

Louis André, s.j., prêtre et missionnaire jésuite, né le 28 mai 1631 à Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, et décédé le 19 septembre 1715 à Québec. Après avoir reçu une formation dans l’enseignement et terminé les études ecclésiastiques de rigueur chez les jésuites, il s’embarqua pour la Nouvelle-France. À l’âge de 54 ans, après tant d’années de travail missionnaire, on le chargea d’enseigner la philosophie, et plus tard le latin, tâche qui l’occupa jusqu’en 1690. C’est sans doute pendant cette période qu’il compila son dictionnaire des langues algonquine et outaouaise, de même qu’un petit guide de conversation, qui existe encore, intitulé : « Preceptes, Phrases et Mots ».