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33-544: Maisonneuve ( French pronunciation: [mɛzɔ̃nœv] ) may refer to: People [ edit ] Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve (1612–1676), French officer who contributed to the foundation of Montreal Jules Germain François Maisonneuve (1809–1897), surgeon of 19th-century Paris Paul Maisonneuve (footballer) (born 1986), French football player Other uses [ edit ] Maisonneuve, Quebec ,

66-550: A mission on Montreal Island in New France . Maisonneuve was hired to lead the colonists and ensure their safety in the new land. In 1642, Ville-Marie was founded on the southern shore of the Island of Montreal , where a chapel and a small settlement were built. A hospital , under the leadership of Jeanne Mance , was also established. Maisonneuve was the first governor of Montreal . The settlers maintained peaceful relations with

99-474: A Canadian magazine Maisonneuve Monument , an 1895 monument in Montreal Maisonneuve fracture , a proximal fibular fracture associated with a distal tibial (ankle) fracture Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Maisonneuve . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to

132-498: A Haudenosaunee chief. In this decisive moment, Maisonneuve fired twice on the chief, thus "killing him with his bare hands," as is sometimes quoted about the event, before returning to the safety of the fort amid much fanfare. In 1645, Maisonneuve received news that his father had died, and he returned to France. There, he was offered the position of Governor of New France but turned it down, wanting to continue his leadership of Ville-Marie. Maisonneuve returned to Montreal in 1647, and

165-624: A former city (1883-1918) now amalgamated to Montreal Maisonneuve (federal electoral district) , a former federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons, and located in the province of Quebec Maisonneuve (provincial electoral district) , a former Quebec provincial electoral district, now part of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Maisonneuve, Vienne , a commune of the Vienne département , in France Maisonneuve (magazine) ,

198-462: A number of stops, the small group, led by Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve , of Champagne , arrived in Quebec with approximately 40 men, three arriving with their wives; Jean Gorry with Isabeau Panie, Antoine Damien with Marie Joly, and Nicolas Godé with Francoise Gadois and their four children; Francois (age 21), Francoise (age 15), Nicolas (age 13), and Mathurine (age 5). The Godés are often referred to as

231-447: A route for war parties and raiding. Neither nation had any permanent settlements upriver above Tadoussac . Samuel de Champlain built a temporary fort in 1611. He established a fur - trading post where present-day Pointe-à-Callière stands as part of a project to create a French colonial empire . He and his crew spent a few weeks clearing a site that he named Place Royale , dug two gardens and planted seed that grew well, confirming

264-572: A small plot of land along the river's shore for use as a public market, and it was known as the Place du Marché . In May 1642, the group left Quebec to go to the Island of Montreal in spite of the efforts by the Montmagny governor to have them settle on the Island of Orleans . They arrived on May 17. Mrs. De la Peltrine, her lady-in-waiting Charlotte Barre, as well as Jeanne Mance , were part of this trip. Francois Godé remained in Quebec and did not make

297-526: The Algonquin people , one of the indigenous tribes of the area. The first year of the colony's existence was peaceful. In 1643 a flood threatened the city. Maisonneuve prayed to the Virgin Mary to stop the inundation and when it abated, he erected a cross atop Mount Royal . A cross has been maintained there to the current day. Of the local First Nations tribes with whom these French settlers had contact with,

330-741: The Collège de Maisonneuve , the neighbourhood of Chomedey in Laval , and the Maisonneuve pavilion, a dormitory at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean . Fort Ville-Marie Fort Ville-Marie was a French fortress and settlement established in May 1642 by a company of French settlers, led by Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve , on the Island of Montreal in the Saint Lawrence River at

363-669: The Iroquois tribes to the south, the impact of epidemics of Old World diseases , or their migration westward toward the shores of the Great Lakes . Harold Innis surmised that the northern hunting Indians around Tadoussac traded furs for European weapons and used these to push the farming Indians south. By the time Champlain arrived, the Algonquins and Mohawks were both using the Saint-Lawrence Valley for hunting grounds, as well as

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396-551: The Mohawk , who were already trading with the Dutch and in New Amsterdam (modern New York City ), resented French efforts to interrupt the trade. The Mohawk were based in present-day New York State , south of Montreal, and severely threatened the new colony. The Algonquin, in contrast, maintained peaceful relations with the newly arrived Europeans. Nevertheless, they were often at war with

429-594: The Sovereign Council . New France's governor general, Augustin de Saffray de Mésy, officially appointed Maisonneuve as governor of Montreal in October 1663. Maisonneuve objected, arguing that since the Sulpicians held the seigneurial rights, only they could appoint a governor. For the same reason, Maisonneuve objected to the establishment of a royal court at Montreal. In September 1665, Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy ,

462-500: The "First Family of Montreal". There was also an unmarried woman, Catherine Lezeau. Winter was spent on the land of Pierre de Puiseaux near Sillery . Between 1642 and 1676, this was the location of annual fur-trading meets, as Amerindians brought their pelts to trade for various goods with the French. When the settlement was being laid out by the Sulpicians in the late 1600s, they reserved

495-521: The 1950s on. The Maisonneuve Monument was erected in 1895 on Place d'Armes in Old Montreal , to his memory. It is the work of Louis-Philippe Hébert (1850–1917). An imaginary model was used to represent Maisonneuve, as no authentic portrait exists of the first governor of Montreal. De Maisonneuve Boulevard and Rue Chomedey in Downtown Montreal are named for him, as are Maisonneuve Park ,

528-625: The Church of the Fathers of the Christian Doctrine, near the abbey of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont . After his death, Rue Saint-Paul in Montreal was named after Maisonneuve, who had built his home in 1650 on the early street. Nuns' Island was once called Île Saint-Paul in honour of the founder of Montreal. The current name of the island appears starting from the 19th century and was exclusively used from

561-543: The Haudenosaunee ( Iroquois ), who discovered the existence of the new French settlement of Montreal, whose defence Maisonneuve commanded using his military training, only in 1643. Already familiar with the terrain, the Haudenosaunee would often observe and engage the French settlers from the safety of the woods. That devastating strategy was the beginning of a long conflict between the groups as they were competing with each other for game and other resources. On 30 March 1644,

594-985: The Lieutenant Général of the Americas, ordered Maisonneuve to return to France on indefinite leave. After 24 years as head of the colony, he left Montreal for good. Settling in Paris Maisonneuve lived in relative obscurity. In 1671, he welcomed Marguerite Bourgeoys at his home in Paris . With his encouragement she had established the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal in 1653, an order of teaching nuns that educated French and Indigenous children. Maisonneuve died in Paris on 9 September 1676; at his bedside were his young friend, Philippe de Turmenys, and his devoted servant, Louis Fin. On September 10, his funeral and burial took place at

627-530: The Maisonneuve seigneury which his father had acquired in 1614. He had two sisters and one brother. He began his military career at 13 in Holland, where he also learned to play the lute. Just before his 30th birthday, Maisonneuve was recruited by Jérome le Royer de la Dauversiere , who was head of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal . The latter claimed to have experienced a vision that inspired him to sponsor

660-644: The confluence of the Ottawa River , in what is today the province of Quebec , Canada. Its name is French for "City of Mary", a reference to the Blessed Virgin Mary . It is the historic nucleus around which the original settlement of Montreal grew. The settlement became a centre for the fur trade and French expansion into North America until the Treaty of Paris in 1763, which ended the French and Indian War and ceded

693-515: The fertility of the soil. In 1613, Samuel de Champlain returned to Place Royale and Sault-au-Récollet . In 1641, some fifty French settlers, both men and women – recruited in France by Jérôme Le Royer de la Dauversière , of Anjou, on behalf of the Société de Notre-Dame de Montréal – set sail for New France. They hoped to convert the natives and create a model Catholic community. After a long crossing and

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726-515: The first well on the island in 1657, at the request of Maisonneuve. Over time, the colony grew in size and eventually was large enough to be secure from the Haudenosaunee threat. Ownership of the colony was transferred from the missionary society to the Sulpicians in March 1663. As New France had been proclaimed a royal province in 1663, governance of Montreal was assumed by the Governor General and

759-688: The first years, the Hôtel-Dieu was hosted inside the fort. By 1685, Ville-Marie had a population of some 600 colonists, most of them living in modest wooden houses. The parish church and the seminary of the Sulpician fathers, seigneurs of the Island, dominated the little town. Most business was transacted in the Marketplace, located just next to the mouth of the little river. Here Montrealers and Amerindians would meet to trade. The fort, in use between 1642 and 1674,

792-568: The inaugural journey to Montreal. The new arrivals set to work to build the Ville-Marie fort on the spot where Champlain had once stayed. The fort housed as many as 50 early colonists. The first governor was Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve . The French and the Dutch (of Fort Orange and New Amsterdam ) were primarily interested in fur trading. The Iroquois had allied with the Dutch of Fort Orange and New Amsterdam , who supplied arms to them. In 1641

825-400: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maisonneuve&oldid=1241477029 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Pages with French IPA Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve Maisonneuve

858-454: The settlers take refuge in the fort. By 1652, the colony at Montreal had been so reduced that he was forced to return to France to raise 100 volunteers to go with him to the colony the following year. If the effort had failed, Montreal would have been abandoned and the survivors relocated downriver to Quebec City . When the 100 arrived in the fall of 1653, the population of Montreal was barely 50 people. They included Jacques Archambault , who dug

891-422: The situation came to a head. Warned by their guard dogs as to the nearby presence of their enemies, a band of 30 settlers went into the forest to face their foes. Once in the woods, the French encountered 250 Haudenosaunee people in ambush, waiting for them. Retreating in the face of such uneven odds, Maisonneuve remained last so that the others could make it safely back to the fort, resulting in him being set upon by

924-458: The territory of New France to Britain. Given its importance, the site of the fort was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1924. Extensive archaeological work in Montreal has revealed the 1,000-year history of human habitation in the area. In his second expedition to North America in 1535, Jacques Cartier observed the indigenous village of Hochelaga in the vicinity of modern-day Montreal . Cartier's description suggests that

957-561: The village of Hochelaga was linked to the occupation of the area by the St. Lawrence Iroquoians , a group of Indigenous sedentary farmers who inhabited the St. Lawrence Valley between 1200 and 1600 CE. By Samuel de Champlain 's arrival and in 1608, he found no trace of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians and settlements visited by Cartier some 75 years earlier. Historians and other scholars have developed several theories about their disappearance: devastating wars with

990-553: The war with the Iroquois began. By 1643, Ville-Marie had already been hit by Iroquois raids. In 1649, the situation was so critical that Maisonneuve went back to France to get help. In 1653, to confront this Iroquois danger, a group of 100 settler-soldiers came to stay in Ville-Marie. With them were 15 King's Daughters placed under the care of Marguerite Bourgeoys. Jeanne Mance would set up the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal hospital in Montreal. In

1023-524: The wars with the Iroquois continued. In 1649, Maisonneuve stood as godfather for the first white child baptized in the colony. She was Pauline Hébert, the daughter of the fur-trader Augustin Hébert and his wife Adrienne Du Vivier , who had come to Montreal in 1648 with Maisonneuve and their elder daughter Jeanne. In the spring of 1651, the Haudenosaunee attacks became so frequent and so violent that Ville-Marie thought that its end had come. Maisonneuve made all

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1056-471: Was baptised on 15 February 1612 at Neuville-sur-Vannes in Champagne , France . He was the son of Louis de Chomedey, seigneur of Chavane, Germenoy-en-Brie, and his second wife Marie de Thomelin, the daughter of Jean de Thomelin, a king's counsellor and a treasurer of France in the generality of Champagne, and of Ambroise d’Aulquoy. Paul de Chomedey grew up in the manor-house at Neuville-sur-Vanne, not far from

1089-456: Was demolished in 1688 and the entire settlement was walled and bastioned during the Indian war . The Louis-Hector de Callière residence was built on this place in 1695. In 1705, the settlement was officially renamed Montreal. In 2007, an archaeological dig uncovered the remains of Ville-Marie under a maritime warehouse in Montreal. In 2015, an archaeological dig uncovered one of the corner posts of

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