Hochelaga
historical site, Quebec, Canada
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Hochelaga refers to an extinct Iroquoian people who inhabited the area of present-day Montreal, Canada. When French explorer Jacques Cartier visited in 1535, he encountered over a thousand Indigenous people at a settlement called Hochelaga. By the time Samuel de Champlain arrived over 50 years later, the people of Hochelaga had disappeared. The site of Hochelaga is now the city of Montreal, which was later established as a French missionary and fur-trading center named Ville-Marie.12
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