1. 1667 to July 1676
Mission Saint François-Xavier-des-Prés (La Prairie de la Magdeleine)

2. July 1676 to 1689
Mission Saint François-Xavier du Sault

3. 1689 Village moved to Montréal(*)

4. 1689 to 1695 Kahnawakon, which means “In the rapids”
The village was begun probably in the winter of 1689–1690 and completed early in the summer of 1690, but was settled in after July 1690.

5. 1695 to 1716 Kanatawenke, which means “Near the rapids”

6. 1716 Kahnawake, which means “On the rapids”
In 1725, it was decided to build a palisade around the Mission.
1845, the present church is built on the same site and the Rectory building (built in 1720) is still standing.

(*) The beginning of 1689, the governor of New France had feared an attack from the Iroquois in early summer. The governor decided to have the village of the Sault Saint-Louis transferred within the walls of Montréal. The French soldiers had taken six weeks to transport the corn of the village.
When they settled in Montréal, there is without mention to where the village was moved to in Montréal. But there is mention that the Natives from the Sault with their families were to remain among the French, and were protected by the soldiers. The relics of Catherine Tekakwitha had followed with them in their displacement and other displacements of the Mission.