IN 1535, JACQUES CARTIER VISITS HOCHELAGA - Jacques Cartier under instructions from the king of France, François Ier, enters the West Indies hoping to reach India.  Sailing along a large river, the Saint-Lawrence, he reaches an Indian settlement, Stadacone, and continues on his adventure into the West Indies towards Hochelaga. Finally he reaches this second Indian settlement, Hochelaga (or beaver lake).  Warmly received by the population and its elders, he visits the village. The following day, he climbs a nearby mountain.  He names it MOUNT ROYAL. From this visit a city will take place: MONTREAL. Still more, from this exploration, a country is born, CANADA.

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The Sacred Mountain

Like Olympia of Old, residence of the gods, Mount Royal is the birthplace of a country New France, now Canada. A majestic mountain, Mount Royal now reigns over a city spreading at its feet, Montreal.   First visited by a Breton explorer, Jacques Cartier seeking a route to India, this 43 years after Chritopher Columbus, this mountain then aroused the admiration of the discoverer. At awe at the panorama then offered, Cartier baptised the mountain Mount Royal, this in honor of his king as was the custom then. Today this unique mountain, Mount Royal, is revered as the birthplace of the country, Canada.

This mountain, Mount Royal, has given birth to a city, now a metropolis, Montreal. Following Cartier, the island of Mount Royal here and there developed. In 1611, Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Quebec, chose the place of a future colony, Place Royale. Four years later, a first mass is said on Des-Prairies river by a Recollet father. Then follows the drowning of another Recollet, Nicolas Viel, this in the rapids of the same river. With time, the island transformed its name: Mount Real and finally Montreal with its occupants calling themselves 'montreallais'. In 1642, a colony takes place: Ville-Marie. In 1833, a city is finally incorporated. Its name? That by which the island is then known: Montreal.

Montreal metropolis

In 1534, 1535, France enters the race
to the discovery of East, of India and it riches

                    Following in the footsteps of Chistopher Columbus with his memorable 1492 exploration of the West Indies, European countries decided to get some of the enormous wealth and riches to be had from the New World.  All countries facing the Atlantic then woke up to the evidence that the earth was really round and to the fact that the best road to the East was not sailing East but sailing West, to where the sun set. To them, the West Indies were the logical territories to explore.  Already, Spain and Portugal were reaping great profits from the New World. In France the king François Ier then chose an experienced mariner from Saint-Malo and familiar with the New World fishing expeditions: Jacques Cartier.                

... facing the opposition of other European countries, the king of France declares ...."the sun shines for all. Let the world show me the clause of Adam's testament excluding France from his share of the New World's wealth"....      François Ier

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	Hochelaga (click)	Jacques Cartier (click)	Montreal - the Metropolis (click)	The Sacred Mountain (click)	G.B. Ramusio (click)
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