Jean-Joseph Casot was a Jesuit came from France to Canada in 1757 as a lay brother.

Casot served the Jesuits in a variety of lay positions including bursar of the Jesuit college in Quebec until Bishop Briand

Jean-Olivier Briand

Jean-Olivier Briand was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Quebec from 1766 to 1784.He was ordained as a priest in 1739 and left for Canada in 1741 with another priest, Abbé René-Jean Allenou de Lavillangevin and the newly appointed bishop of Quebec, Henri-Marie Dubreil de Pontbriand, in...

 ordained him as a priest in 1766. He spent the rest of his life as bursar of the college in Quebec and was also confessor to the nuns of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec

Hôtel-Dieu de Québec

The Hotel-Dieu de Québec is a teaching hospital located in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada and affiliated with Université Laval's medical school. It is part of the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec , a network of three teaching hospitals and several specialized institutions. Its areas of...

 for a number of years.

Casot is known as the last Jesuit in Canada. Before his death and in his will, he attempted to deal with the numerous properties that were part of the Jesuit assets in the country. Despite these efforts, his death began a long period of disputes over the Jesuit estates. The Society of Jesus was re-established in Canada in 1842 by Clément Boulanger

Clément Boulanger (Jesuit priest)

Clément Boulanger was a Jesuit priest who was notable in Canadian history.Boulanger was a young priest when the Society of Jesus was re-established in France. He joined the Jesuits in 1823 and by 1842 he was made provincial of the Jesuits in France...

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