Assigment # 6

In 1628, he was the first black person known to have lived in Canada.He was the first recorded slave that was purchase in New France. Olivier was a boy from Madagascar. People believed that he was less than ten years of age when he was brought to New France, in the area of Qubec by British Commander David Kirke. Shortly after his arrival Olivier was sold to Olivier Le Tardiff, head clerk of the French colony. When Quebec was handed back to the French in 1632, Le Tardiff left the colony. Upon doing so he sold his slave to a Quebec resident. The boy was educated in a school established by the priest Jesiut, Father Le Jeune and later baptised as Olivier Le Jeune, taking the first name of the French clerk and the surname of the Jesuit priest. Olivier Le Jeune died on May 10, 1654. It is believed that by the time of his death his official status was changed from that of "domestic servant" to freeman.