Archipelago of Hochelaga

See also: Hochelaga

The archipelago of Hochelaga is a group of 234 island S with the confluence of the Fleuve the St. Lawrence and Rivière of Outaouais in the south-west of the Quebec. The archipelago includes/understands all the islands on the Rivière of the Thousand-Islands, the Rivière of the Meadows and part of the St. Lawrence.

Municipalities

The largest island of the archipelago is the island of Montreal, occupied in greater part by the town of Montreal. The city also extends on 74 plus small islands belonging to the archipelago, in particular the island-Bizard, the island Notre-Dame, the island Sainte-Hélène and the island of the Sisters.

The second island of the archipelago is the island Jesus which, with the island-Laval and other smaller islands, form the town of Laval.

Other islands are also known, the such islands of Boucherville and the island Perrot.

History

The archipelago takes its name of the village of Hochelaga, a village iroquoien on the island of Montreal, missing at the end it 16th century without leaving traces.

It is the Brother Marie-Victorin who, in 1935, names the archipelago with one of the oldest names of Montreal. In its Flora laurentienne , he writes that it is an extraordinary running water crossroads .

See too

References

  • Serge Bouchard and Al, People autochtones of North America. Reduction with the coexistence, Quebec, TV-university, 1989, pages 93-95. (" The disappearance of Iroquoiens laurentiens")
  • Jacques Cartier, original Relation of Jacques Cartier, 1545, reprinted in 1863 (list of vocabulary on pages 46 to 48).
  • Bruce G. Trigger and James F. Pendergast, " Saint Lawrence Iroquoians" , Handbook off North American Indians, 1978, volume 15, pages 357-361.
  • Names and places of Quebec: if each place to me were told (multi-media Cédérom). Commission of toponymy of Quebec. Publications of Quebec, Microphone-Intel 1997.

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