Hochelaga (village)

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. 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. 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.

ee also

*St. Lawrence Iroquoians
*History of Montreal
*Stadacona

References

* Cartier, Jacques. (1545). " [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12356/12356-h/12356-h.htm 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