SOURCES AND EARLY HISTORIOGRAPHY OF JESUIT MISSION IN FIRST HALF 17<sup>th</sup>-CENTURY NEW FRANCE
Missionary activity of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in the North America always was one of the main objects of attention both in foreign, and in home American studies. Without dependence from an estimation of methods and results of this activity to avoid it at research of early colonial history of continent it is not obviously possible, for it was a key element of the major events and the processes proceeding during 17<sup>th</sup> - first half 18<sup>th</sup> centuries. At the same time, historians poorly master till now that huge document file which has resulted Jesuit apostolate in New France, especially in first half 17<sup>th</sup> century, when letters and reports of missionaries were actually unique evidences of the European colonisation and those social and economic, political and cultural processes which it initiated.