TouchScreenTravels

Our Touch, your Travels…

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pre–1535: First Nations

After a couple of millennia of use by hunter-gatherers, the first people to settle in the Montreal area where the Iroquois who built wooden fortifications around bark-covered communal longhouses for 1000-strong villages.

Hochelaga (“Place of the Beaver Dam”) (in HoMa) was probably among the earliest and was happened upon by explorer Jacques Cartier in 1535.

He’d already claimed the territory for the King of France the previous year. He also named Mount Royal, perhaps in the King’s honour.

McCord Museum

Canadiana Treasure Trove

Image by Alkan de Beaumont Chaglar