Lieu de passage et d'échange / A Place Transit & Trade

Just a few steps from this point, where the St. Pierre and St. Lawrence rivers once crossed, a point of land named after Louis-Hector de Callière, governor general of New France, forms part of the genesis of Montreal. Vestiges and artefacts testify to innumerable centuries of activity on these lands that was commercial, cultural, religious, and military. On August 4, 1701, negotiations led over more than a decade by Governor General Louis-Hector de Callière and the Huron-Wendat Chief Kondiaronk ended with the signing of the Great Peace treaty, marking the easing of tensions between Indigenous communities and the French colonies. On that occasion, 39 Indigenous nations signed the treaty.

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