1. 1667 to July 1676
Mission Saint François-Xavier-des-Prés (La Prairie de la Magdeleine)
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2. July 1676 to 1689
Mission Saint François-Xavier du Sault (Sault Saint-Louis :
Côte Sainte-Catherine)
In the summer, they began to build a chapel (bark lodge), which was finished in the following autumn (1676).
Spring 1678: The Jesuits Fathers had started building the first chapel.
Autumn 1684: They rebuilt the previous church and the relics of Catherine Tekakwitha were brought in this church from the cemetery.
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3. 1689 Village moved to Montréal(*)
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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.
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5. 1695 to 1716 Kanatawenke, which means “Near the rapids”
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6. 1716 Kahnawake, which means “On the rapids”
Pierre Cholenec was Superior of the Mission of Saint Francis Xavier from 1716 to 1722.
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.

In 1689 there were, Fort Lachine, where was Holy Angels Chapel and presently Holy Angels Church is at 1,400 Saint-Joseph (Borough of Lachine), Fort Rolland, where a commemorative plaque is at 3,500 Saint-Joseph (Borough of Lachine), Fort Cuillerier, fortified residence of René Cuillerier (in the Borough of Lachine) and Fort de la Présentation bordering the Saint-Laurent River (in the Borough of Dorval and across to Dorval Island). These were the forts, where the French lived, on the island of Montréal that were nearest to the village of the Sault Saint-Louis.

And the only nearest census to 1689 that we have of the Mission was from a letter of Claude Chauchetière in 1682. He mentions that at the Mission, there were 60 lodges, or one hundred twenty to one hundred fifty families and there were at least two families per lodge. In 1711, Father Joseph Germain, S.J. writes that the Mission in Kanatawenke consists of five hundred, or six hundred Iroquois.