Lawrence River, which would come to be Cartier's most significant discovery. He was met by Chief Donnacona, who was relieved to see his sons, but the gifts from the French King were not enough to erase the reservations he felt following his sons' kidnappings. With the chief's sons translating, Cartier asked about Hochelaga, but suspected the translations.
It appeared as though Donnacona were discouraging any westward travel and was told that his sons would not be allowed to go unless Cartier left hostages.
Shamans warned Cartier of the dangers and the 'devils' which lived to the west, but Cartier was not to be dissuaded. He assigned some men to remain and build a fort and continued to Hochelaga without native guides. He was buoyed by his two guides' description of a river leading to their village of Stadacona and to Hochelaga, the Iroquoian settlement at the present site of Montreal.
The chief's sons described it as a lengthy route into the interior that no one had explored to the end. It sounded like the passage Cartier was seeking, but he didn't entirely trust the two men and he first checked the north shore to ascertain there wasn't a more promising route. He finally accepted their guidance, which led him to the St. Lawrence River, his most significant geographical discovery. On September 7, Cartier reached the archipelago at Orlans, near Stadacona. Donnacona came out to the boat and embraced his sons and they spoke of France.
Gifts were exchanged and the mood was festive but it was quickly replaced by a guarded suspicion on both sides. At this time we began somewhat to distrust them. Cartier in Hochelaga Cartier in Hochelaga read more Capture of Donnacona Capture of Donnacona read more Spoiler, it did not. When Cartier returned to the island in , he does not mention the town and it is believed that it had been conquered and destroyed through war, although there are several theories for its disappearance.
One is the aforementioned war, another is migration westward toward the shores of the Great Lakes, but another theory put forward that is likely s that the village was abandoned after a cycle of land exhaustion. On the location of Hochelaga, a small village called Ville-Marie would be founded in but over time the residents began to use the name of the island for the colony name.
The name of the island was the Island of Montreal, and so the two most important cities in Quebec, and in Canada, are built on the former communities of the Iroquois who lived there when Europeans arrived. One interesting aspect of the village is that some believe that it may be a myth because no physical evidence of the village exists, which I personally feel is unlikely and pushes a European centric view that the Indigenous could not have had such a complex settlement.
The fact is that Cartier wrote about the village following his second trip and presented it to the King of France.
A detailed plan of the village was also drawn up years later by Giacomo Gastaldi and was titled Of Navigation and Travel. It is likely, based on archeological studies, that Hochelaga ceased to exist between and , when Samuel de Champlain arrived. Most likely, it saw its last resident around French settlers met with Indigenous people in and were given a grand tour following a religious festival in the area. Then, stretching out their hands towards the hills that lie to the east and south of the mountain, there said they are the places where stood villages filled with great numbers of savages.
The Hurons, who then were our enemies, drove our Forefathers from this country. Some went towards the country of the Algonquin, others towards the country of the Iroquois, some to the Hurons themselves and joined them. And that is how this island became deserted. In , construction at McGill University in the area of Sherbrooke Street would result in many Indigenous objects being found including pottery and tools.
These items were found to date from the Cartier era and Sir John Dawson, the principal of McGill, stated that Hochelaga had been found. Others would theorize that Hochelaga was located elsewhere in the area, near a flat area between Mount Royal Cemetery and Maplewood Avenue. Over the past 40 years, there have been many important politicians on the federal level for Canada. Some have served as Prime Ministers The community of Hillcrest, located near the Crowsnest Pass of Alberta, was founded and fueled by coal.
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