Montreal
Largest city in Quebec, CanadaMontreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the ninth-largest in North America. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is 196 km (122 mi) east of the national capital, Ottawa, and 258 km (160 mi) southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City.
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Timeline
AI Generated- 1000Native peoples started to cultivate maize on the island.
- 1535French explorer Jacques Cartier visited Hochelaga and estimated the population at "over a thousand people".
- 1603Samuel de Champlain reported that the St Lawrence Iroquoians and their settlements had disappeared from the St Lawrence valley.
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Monument in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Sculpture in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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