Hochelaga was a St. Lawrence Iroquoian fortified village near present-day Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The St Lawrence Iroquoians lived until the late 16th century along the shores of the St Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec Quebec (kwɨˈbɛk Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Its first European contact was by a French expedition led by Jacques Cartier in 1535. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Jacques Cartier (December 31 1491&ndashSeptember 1 1557 was a French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France The village still existed when Cartier revisited the region a few years later.

It disappeared prior to the arrival of Samuel de Champlain in the early 17th century. Samuel de Champlain (c 1575 - 25 December 1635) "The Father of New France " was a French navigator geographer cartographer 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. Hochelaga-Maisonneuve is a district of Montreal Quebec, situated on the eastern half of the island generally to the south and south-west of the city's Olympic Stadium

See also

• St. Lawrence Iroquoians
• History of Montreal
• Stadacona

References

• Cartier, Jacques. The St Lawrence Iroquoians lived until the late 16th century along the shores of the St The human history of Montreal, located in Quebec Canada spans some 8000 years and started with the Algonquin, Huron, and Iroquois tribes of Stadacona was a 16th century St Lawrence Iroquoian village near present-day Quebec City. (1545). Relation originale de Jacques Cartier. Paris: Tross (1863 version, in French).
• Newton, Mark. (2007). "Where was Hochelaga?", Canadian Geographic. Volume 114, numéro 6. Pages 63-68.
• Pendergast, James F. (1998). "The Confusing Identities Attributed to Stadacona and Hochelaga", Revue d'études canadiennes. Volume 32. Pages 149-167.
• Pendergast, James F. et Bruce G. Trigger. (1972). Cartier's Hochelaga and the Dawson Site. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. ISBN 0773500700