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Hochelaga was the first indigenous settlement in Montreal to make contact with Europeans. The area known today as Montreal had been inhabited by indigenous peoples for some 8,000 years, while the oldest known artifact found in Montreal proper is about 4,000 years old. [2]
Between around 1000 C.E. and the late 1500s, a group of sedentary Indigenous peoples known as the St. Lawrence Iroquoians occupied the island of Montréal. During this period, the current Place Royale was a popular gathering place for everyday activities like fishing and canoeing.
In October 1535, French explorer Jacques Cartier became the first European to visit the future site of Montréal, then a substantial Iroquoian village called Hochelaga, with 150 longhouses at the foot of Mount Royal.
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The century of warfare between the French and the Five Nations Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) was marked by a series of military expeditions and guerrilla raids. It was initiated by Samuel de Champlain in 1609. He joined a war party of Algonquin and Huron-Wendat against the Mohawk of the Lake Champlain region. He thus inserted the French into the pre-exi...
Following Frontenac’s death in November 1698, Louis-Hector de Callière was promoted from governor of Montreal. He became governor of all New France in the spring of 1699 and began looking for ways to end the wars. In July 1700, delegates from four of the Haudenosaunee nations (the Mohawkwere absent) met with Governor de Callière to begin peace talk...
The Iroquois League pledged to allow French settlement at Detroit and to remain neutral in the event of a war between England and France. In exchange, the Haudenosaunee were permitted to trade freely and to obtain goods from the French at a reduced cost. All agreed that the governor general of New Francewould mediate disputes among them. This recog...
To mark the 300th anniversary of the peace treaty in 2001, the Pointe-à-Callière museum of anthropology in Montrealhosted an exhibition of artifacts related to the accord, including the original manuscript. The City of Montreal also named part of Place d’Youville, Place de la Grande-Paix-de-Montréal. An obelisk marks the location where the treaty w...
May 17, 2017 · However, some thirty years later the Sulpician priest François Dollier de Casson, acknowledged as Montréal’s first historian, states that they arrived on May 18. Vimont was an eyewitness; Dollier, who arrived in New France in 1666, was not.
Jul 9, 2019 · First Nations, Inuit & Metis. Nicole O’Bomsawin, of the Abenaki First Nation, shares some of the history of the First Nations that have been established in the Montreal area for centuries.
4 days ago · Early settlement. The site of Montreal was called Hochelaga by the Huron people when the French navigator and explorer Jacques Cartier visited it in 1535–36 on his second voyage to the New World. More than 1,000 Native Americans (some sources say as many as 3,500) welcomed him on the slope of the mountain that he named Mont Royal (Mont Réal).
