page_title: Name of Montreal
section_title: Timeline
hierarchical_section_title: Name of Montreal / Timeline
caption_attribution_description: English: Woodcut engraving of Hochelaga published in Venice by Ramusio. Based on account of Jacques Cartier. Français&#160;: La Terra De Hochelaga Nella Nova Francia, plan dessiné par Giacomo Gastaldi, paru dans le livre en italien de Giovanni Battista Ramusio, Delle Navigationi et Viaggi, volume III (Venise, 1565). Le plan représente le village iroquoien d’Hochelaga qui était situé à côté de l’actuel Mont Royal à Montréal au Canada, mont qu’on trouve sur la carte avec l’inscription MONTE REAL.
context_page_description: There are some hypotheses concerning the origin of the name of Montreal. The best-known is that it is a variant of "Mount Royal".
context_section_description: In modern Iroquois, Montreal is called Tiohtià:ke. Other First Nations languages, such as Algonquin, refer to it as Moniang.
  1535 – On October 3, Jacques Cartier climbed up the mountain and named it Mount Royal. He wrote: "Nous nommasmes icelle montaigne le mont Royal." (We named the said mountain Mount Royal.) The name Montreal is generally thought to be derived from "Mount Royal", the name given to the mountain by Cartier in 1535.
  1556 – On his map of Hochelaga, Italian geographer Giovanni Battista Ramusio wrote Monte Real to designate Mount Royal.
  1575 – In his Cosmographie universelle de tout le monde, historiographer François de Belleforest was the first to use the form Montréal with reference to this area. In translation, it reads: "Let us now look at Hochelaga... in the midst of the countryside is the village, or Cité royale, adjacent to a mountain on which farming is practiced. The Christians call this city Montreal...".
  1601 – On his map, Guillaume Le Vasseur wrote Hochelaga for the inhabited area and called the hill Mont Royal.
  1609 – Marc Lescarbot called the settlement "Hochelaga, ville des Sauvages".
  1612 – On Champlain's map, the mountain is called Montreal.
  1642 – The mission named Ville-Marie was built at Place Royale.
  1705 – Montreal is now the official name for the city formerly named Ville-Marie.
caption: Map published in Venice by Ramusio. Based on account of Jacques Cartier
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