- Euclide Auclair, an apothecary
- Cécile Auclair, his daughter
- Count de Frontenac, a military officer and the governor of the Quebec colony
- Blinker, a poor disabled man whom Cecile charitably feeds
- Antoinette Gaux, a prostitute, and the neglectful mother of Jacques
- Jacques Gaux, the son of Antoinette and friend of Cecile
- Bishop Laval, the elder churchman
- Bishop Saint-Vallier, a younger churchman with rather poor judgment
- Pierre Charron, a hunter and fur trader
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