Montreal
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- Names
Montréal
Montreal
Hochelaga
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Canada's second largest city; occupies about a third of Île de Montréal. The first French settlement here was Fort Ville Marie (1642-1674), with foundations under the site of the current PAC Musée. It was given its first civic charter by Louis XIV in 1644; it peacefully surrendered to British troops in 1760; it was brought under British N American empire 1763.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Cambridge Encyclopedia (1990); Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-); Canadian Encyclopedia (1985); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of the World (1992); USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers; Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
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