Hochelaga (village)
- This article is about the village. For other uses, see Hochelaga.
Hochelaga was a St. Lawrence Iroquoian fortified village near present-day Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its first European contact was by a French expedition led by Jacques Cartier in 1535, who named a nearby mountain Mont Realis. The village still existed when Cartier revisited the region as few years later, but had disappeared when Samuel de Champlain arrived in the early 17th century. Champlain and his companions eventually began settling there, founding Ville-Marie in 1642. This became the present-day city of Montreal.
Hochelaga-Maisonneuve is now a neighbourhood of Montreal.
See also
References
- Mark Abley. (1994). "Where was Hochelaga?", Canadian Geographic. Volume 114, numéro 6. Pages 63-68.
- Jacques Cartier. (1545). Relation originale de Jacques Cartier. Paris: Tross (1863 version, in French).
- James F. Pendergast. (1998). "The Confusing Identities Attributed to Stadacona and Hochelaga", Revue d'études canadiennes. Volume 32. Pages 149-167.
- James F. Pendergast et Bruce G. Trigger. (1972). Cartier's Hochelaga and the Dawson Site. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Categories
History of Montreal