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They made attempts to christianize the Micmacs of Acadia, the Abnaki of the upper St John, the Algonquin tribes of the lower St Lawrence, and the Nipissings of the upper Ottawa.

From The Jesuit Missions : A chronicle of the cross in the wilderness by Marquis, Thomas Guthrie

"Nicholas, did you say you had visited the Nipissings?"

From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

To the westward, along the Ottawa River, and skirting the north shore of Lake Huron to Michillimackinac and Green Bay, were the strong French allies, the Hurons, Ottawas, Nipissings, Kiskagons, Sacs, Foxes, and Mascoutins.

From The Road to Frontenac by Merwin, Samuel

There were fully five hundred of them, Hurons, Ottawas, Ojibwas, Pottawatamies, Crees, and Nipissings, with a hundred and ten canoes laden with beaver skins to the value of nearly a hundred thousand crowns.

From Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV by Parkman, Francis

The story of the Cross was being carried even to the Algonquins and Nipissings of the upper Ottawa and Georgian Bay.

From The Jesuit Missions : A chronicle of the cross in the wilderness by Marquis, Thomas Guthrie