Old Montreal
| Old Montreal | |
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| Neighbourhood | |
| Vieux-Montréal | |
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| Coordinates: 45°30′04″N 73°33′22″W / 45.501095°N 73.556026°WCoordinates: 45°30′04″N 73°33′22″W / 45.501095°N 73.556026°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| province | Quebec |
| City | Montreal |
| Borough | Ville-Marie |
| Area | |
| • Land | 0.71 km2 (0.27 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 4,531 |
| • Density | 6,381.7/km2 (16,529/sq mi) |
| • Change (2006-11) |
 21.8% |
| • Dwellings | 3,312 |
| Official name | Site patrimonial de Montréal |
| Type | Site patrimonial déclaré |
| Designated | 1964-01-08 |
| Reference no. | 93528 |
Old Montreal (French: Vieux-Montréal) is the oldest area in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with a few remains dating back to New France. Located in the borough of Ville-Marie, the area is bordered on the west by McGill St., on the north by Ruelle des Fortifications, on the east by Rue Saint Andre and on the south by the Saint Lawrence River. Following recent amendments, the district has been expanded slightly to include the rue des Soeurs Grises in the west, Saint Antoine St. in the north and Saint Hubert Street in the east. It also includes the Old Port of Montreal. Most of Old Montreal was declared an historic district in 1964 by the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec.
In 1605 Samuel de Champlain set up a fur-trading post at Place Royale(Old Montreal), at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence River and the long-vanished Petite Rivière St-Pierre, adjacent to present-day Place D'Youville and the Pointe-à-Callière Museum. However, the local Iroquois successfully defended their land and the French abandoned their post.
The original site of Montreal in 1642, then known as Ville-Marie, is precisely known. This is the Pointe-à-Callière, a piece of land at the confluence of the St. Lawrence River and Little River. The founder, Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, built a fort in 1643 called Société Notre-Dame de Montréal for the conversion of the Indians in New France. The company was created by the Sulpician Jean-Jacques Olier and by Jérôme Le Royer (Sieur de La Dauversière) in 1642. The Société acquired sovereignty over the island of Montreal and brought the first settlers to house, feed, educate and care for the Amerindians. Because of flooding, they had to cross to the other side of Little River on the north shore where the Soeurs hospitalières (Hospital Sisters) of Montreal (under the direction of Jeanne Mance) built and operated the first hospital (the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal).
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