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.

  Mount Royal - The Sacred Mountain

This mountain should join the ranks of the present 13 Canadian World Heritage Sites. These 13 sites are the following:

Mount Royal, that Sacred Mountain, meets all the criterias required by Unesco for a site being declared a World Heritage Site.   Unesco specifies:

The criteria for the inclusion of cultural properties in the World Heritage List should always be seen in relation to one another and should be considered in the context of the definition set out in Article 1 of the Convention which is reproduced below:
"monuments: architectural works, works of monumental sculpture and painting, elements or structures of an archaeological nature, inscriptions, cave dwellings and combinations of features, which are of outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science;
groups of buildings: groups of separate or connected buildings which, because of their architecture, their homogeneity or their place in the landscape, are of outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art or science;
sites: works of man or the combined works of nature and of man, and areas including archaeological sites which are of outstanding universal value from the historical, aesthetic, ethnological or anthropological points of view."

More information can be had at the following address:
http://whc.unesco.org/criteria.htm

 

MOUNT ROYAL, THIS SACRED MOUNTAIN IS THE BIRTH PLACE OF CANADA. This Sacre Mountain is in fact the bithplace of Canada, then New-France. As such, it is the most important place in Canada.

HOCHELAGA WAS DRAWN ON THE MODEL OF NEW TOWNS AT THE RENAISSANCE - Hochelaga was drawn on the model of New Towns at the Renaissance. The new towns were usually fortified against armed attacks. Today, the new town of PalmaNova (1593) built by Venice on its northern frontier gives us a good model.

THE 3 HILLS OF MOUNT ROYAL ARE EXACTLY REPRODUCED BY THE PLAN "LA TERRA DE HOCHELA" PUBLISHED BY G.B. RAMUSIO -This in fact a most valuable aspect of the history of that mountain.

MOUNT ROYAL IS THE BIRTHPLACE OF MONTREAL. It predates some one hundred and seven years the (implantation) of Ville-Marie. Following the coming of Cartier, development occured in different places, especially on Des-Prairies river. The island successively took the name of Mount Royal, of Mount Real and finally Montreal. When a city was incorporated, it took the name of the island, Montréal.

THE DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED IN 1556 BY VENICE ALL CONFORMS TO THE MEMOIR OF CARTIER, NOTWITHSTANDING ITS MANY INCONGRUITIES.