Jacques Buteux (Abbeville, France, 1599 - Trois-Rivières, 1652), Jesuit, came to Quebec City in 1634. He was immediately assigned to the mission of Trois-Rivières where he became superior in 1639. Father Buteux made his first voyage in Attikameks region, in the upper basin of the Saint-Maurice River in 1651. He wrote a "relation journal" about his first trip in Haute-Mauricie. On his second voyage, the next year, at the same place, Father Buteux was then accompanied by a sixty Attikameks, some French and a Hurons. Unfortunately, he was then attacked and killed by Iroquois.
