Montréal (3)


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Source: Photograph by WTL© on site in Montréal (2016).
Comments: In 1642 Maisonneuve was hired to establish a mission for the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal on the island of the same name up-river from Québec in the Saint-Laurent river. He built a small stockaded settlement called (Fort) Ville-Marie (Montréal's first name and currently the name of the oldest—and now tourist-centered—neighborhood) on the shore below the mount with a chapel and a few other key buildings. As first governor of Montréal (1642-1666) he established and maintained peace with the indigenous Algonquin people and most of the neighboring tribes, but not with the Iroquois and Mohawk people, the latter who lived in what is today upper New York state. Until 1666 Montréal was a purely religious settlement run by Maisonneuve and, from 1653 by Marguerite Bourgeoys and her non-cloistered sisters of the Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal. In 1666, Maisonneuve returned to Paris where he lived and died in relative obscurity. For close-up image of the Maisonneuve statue, see => Montreal #3a.
Humanities Question: On this online textbook of Latin American humanities, find the statue of any other European founder of a Latin American city and then compare and contrast the two historical figures and the statues that are meant to represent them.


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