A cultural history of the missionary: Julien Moulin, from the diocese of Rennes to North-western Canada, 1830-1878

Julien Moulin was born in La Gouesniere in 1830 and became a missionary in the Canadian North-West where he wanted to evangelize Natives and Metis from 1859 to his death in 1920. The archives of his own native parish contain many letters he sent to his family from 1854 to 1878. By this way we can observe Moulin inner world. But this is not a simple and traditional biography. Here I try to make the history of a parish of Brittany in the first half of the 19th century and the production of a priest; the history of the Canadian mission of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate; and particularly the history of the personal experience of the missionary. So this is above all the often forgotten atlantic cultural history of a missionary.