Montreal (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from MontrealBetween 1666 and 1668, Jacques Marquette, the great Jesuit missionary and discoverer, was a familiar figure in ville-marie, and he left the banks of the St. Lawrence on his voyage of discovery to the Mississippi. It was to Montreal that Sir William Johnson, of Johnson Hall on the Mohawk, came in 1760, and on the site of the present Bonsecours Market stood the residence occupied by his son, Sir John Johnson, Indian commissioner, and it was here that peace conferences were held with the great Indian chiefs Brant and Tecumseh.At the corner of St. Peter and St. Paul streets, stood the residence of Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle. It was in 1666 that La Salle came to Montreal to go, ten years later, on his voyage of discovery into the North west and thence down to the gulf of Mexico. 'on the lower road leading from Montreal to Lachine, can still be seen the remains of a fortified seigniorial chateau which tradition asserts was the home of La Salle in the year 1668.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.