. The street railway review . ompanied by theIndians. Reachingthe summit, he be-came so much im-pressed with thebeauty and grand-eur of the scene,that he gave it thename Mont Real,which has beenshortened intoMontreal. Jacques Cartierleft the Indians inpeaceable posses-sion of Hochelagawhen he sailedaway from the NewWorld to his homein France. Seventyyears later Cham-plain came to MontReal, which isknown today asMount Royal. Hesaw no Indian vil-lage at its foot, buttwo aged Indians told him how one white man had come to that placeyears before in a big canoe with sails, when their belovedHochela
. The street railway review . ompanied by theIndians. Reachingthe summit, he be-came so much im-pressed with thebeauty and grand-eur of the scene,that he gave it thename Mont Real,which has beenshortened intoMontreal. Jacques Cartierleft the Indians inpeaceable posses-sion of Hochelagawhen he sailedaway from the NewWorld to his homein France. Seventyyears later Cham-plain came to MontReal, which isknown today asMount Royal. Hesaw no Indian vil-lage at its foot, buttwo aged Indians told him how one white man had come to that placeyears before in a big canoe with sails, when their belovedHochelaga was the largest Indian village in that vicin-ity. He had gone away and there had been no otherwhite man until he had come. A war had broken outamong the Indians, which ended in the burning of thevillage and massacre of its inhabitants, except the twoold men, who were speaking to the explorer. In 1611Samuel de Cham plain cleared the ground and built awall of bricks on the site of the present custom house, to J^ ^j^^^-^--^^). 3T 11 0 1 1 1: measure ice shove in the spring. This was thetrading post, Place Royal, but Champlain did not carryout his intention to found a settlement. In 1613 heappeared at St. Helens Island, opposite the trading post,whence he departed on his trip of exploration up theOttawa river, and did not return to Place Royal. FORMAT. SETTLE-MENT. Montreal wasformally foundedOctober 14, 1641,by Paul Chomedy,sieur de Maison-neuve, who calledthe settlement Vil-le-Marie, the sol-emn consecrationtaking place on the17 th of May follow-ing, near the site ofthe custom was abrave man whobrought with him agoodly was the ven-erable MargueriteBourgeoys, ofTroyes, France,who founded thefirst educationalestablishment foryoung women inCanada-—the con-gregation of NotreDame. Mile. Jean-ne Mance came,bringing an equiva-lent of $250,000, tobe used in benevo-lent work, the be-quest of Madamede Bouillon, widowof a former super-intendent of financ
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