page_title: Timeline of Montreal history
section_title: 1670–1689
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of Montreal history / 17th century / 1670–1689
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Louis Jolliet, sculpture devant l'hôtel du Parlement de Québec, aile droite, série des découvreurs
context_page_description: The timeline of the history of Montreal is a chronology of significant events in the history of Montreal, Canada's second-most populated city, with about 3.5 million residents in 2018, and the fourth-largest French-speaking city in the world.
context_section_description: 1670s – A large orchard is planted on the side of Mount Royal during the mid-1670s.
  1670 – Hudson's Bay Company founded.
  1670–80 – Initially, trading is done in people's homes; traders soon set up stalls between Rue Saint-Paul and the Little St. Pierre River, west of the marketplace. Natives camp on the Point, numbering about 900 in 1672.
  1671 — founding of the municipality of Verdun.
  1672 – Commissioned by François Dollier de Casson, superior of the Sulpicians; notary and surveyor Bénigne Basset Des Lauriers makes the first street layout in Montreal. The original plan of Old Montreal consists of 10 streets, of which three run parallel to the river– Notre-Dame Street, Rue Saint-Paul, Saint Jacques Street –and seven extend perpendicular from the river, including Saint Pierre, Saint François Xavier, Saint Jean Baptiste, Saint Gabriel, and Saint Vincent.
  1672 – The cross is planted to designate the future location of the first Notre-Dame Basilica (Montreal) on June 29 and the first five stones are laid the next day.
  1672 – As a churchwarden, Pierre Gadois supervises the construction of a public well in the Place d'Armes.
  1674 – Louis Jolliet is wrecked at Sault-Saint-Louis in May.
  1676 – A Sulpician mission is founded at Mount Royal.
  1677 – Jacques Bizard is sent to Montreal by Frontenac to investigate claims of illegal sale of alcohol to the natives. However, the leader of the smugglers, Montreal Governor François-Marie Perrot, imprisons Bizard. With the help of Frontenac, Bizard is liberated and Perrot is removed from office.
  1678 – Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel is completed.
  1679 – Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut reaches the western end of Lake Superior in the fall of the 1679 where he concludes peace talks between the Saulteur and Sioux nations.
  1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the southern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes.
  1680 – Kateri Tekakwitha dies.
  1680–85 – More and more voyageurs, coureurs des bois and missionaries were exploring the regions upriver from Montreal. As the new territory opens up, part of the fur trade shifts toward the Great Lakes. Fewer and fewer natives came to Montreal, and the annual fur fair became less popular from 1680 to 1685.
  1682 – Montrealer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle travels to the mouth of the Mississippi River.
  1682 – Notre-Dame Church is completed; constructed by François Bailly. Throughout the 18th century the city's primary landmarks are the bell tower of Notre-Dame and Citadel hill.
  1684 – The Congregation of Notre Dame convent is destroyed by a fire.
  1684–87 – Saint-Sulpice Seminary (Montreal) is built.
  1686 – Treaty of Whitehall.
  1687–89 – A wooden palisade is erected to protect the town.
  1687 – An epidemic of typhus kills approximately 150 people in the autumn.
  1689 – On June 13, construction was begun by the Montreal Sulpicians on a 2 km canal to support their monopoly on flour-milling. François Dollier de Casson asserts that such a canal (Lachine Canal) would supply water to Montreal's mills while simultaneously facilitating westbound navigation.
  1689 – Lachine massacre.
caption: Louis Jolliet statue, Parliament Building (Quebec)
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