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Mount Royal

The eastern slope of Mount Royal, seen from Montreal

Geography

Altitude

234 m

Solid

Monteregians

Contact

45 30 '23 "North
73 35 '20 "West / 45.50639, -73.58889 45 30'23" N 73 35'20 "W / 45.50639, -73.58889

Administration

Country

Canada

Province

Quebec

Region

Montreal

Geology

Geolocation on the map: Quebec

Geolocation on the map: Canada

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Mount Royal is a hill overlooking the city of Montreal , in Quebec. This is one of nine Monteregians located in the southwestern province.

Summary

1 Geology
2 History
3 Park Mount Royal
Four residential areas and institutions
5 The names of Montreal, Montrgie and Monteregians
6 Gallery
7 Notes and references
8 See also
- 8.1 Article Related
- 8.2 External Links

Geology

Mount Royal in Montreal.

Mount Royal was formed approximately 125 million years ago during an intrusion of underground magma. This magma has reached the Earth's surface and deep frozen. Hill appeared in erosion by glaciers of sedimentary rocks nearby, more fragile than the metamorphic rock formed by contact of magma and sedimentary rock. The mountain has three peaks: the Big Mountain (234 meters), Outremont (211 meters) formerly under French rule called Sugar Loaf and Little Mountain (201 meters) or Mount Westmount.

History

During his second voyage in 1535, after stops in Quebec City September 7, Cartier sailed up the St. Lawrence to Hochelaga , now the city of Montreal. 3 October 1535, he was welcomed at Hochelaga he visits, then he climbs the mountain nearby, which he named Mount Royal in honor of the King of France Francis ^I

And hereunto Parmy of Champaigne, and is seated scitue said town of Hochelaga, near and enclosing a montaigne ... We nommasmes hereunto montaigne Mount Royal.

Terra Nova De Hochelaga Nella Francia plan Italian Gastaldi with left, Monte Real.

Twenty-one years later, in 1556, the Venetian Republic , which like France was interested in India, reproduced in Volume ³ rd Viaggi Delle keyEto and an illustration of the visit of Jacques Cartier at Hochelaga on the map Terra Nova De Hochelaga Nella Francia. Surprisingly, an analysis of this figure reveals that the three hills of Mount Royal, shown in this illustration, are faithfully reproduced. The visit ended Hochelaga, Cartier returned to Stadacona he reached on October 2 and where he spent the winter. During his third voyage in 1541, Jacques Cartier became subordinate Roberval , founded the colony of Charlesbourg-Royal. The following year Roberval arrived at Charlesbourg-Royal, he renames France-Roy. Both this separately, returning to the village Hochelaga then destroyed. They try to ignore the leaps .

The cross on Mount Royal is a metal cross erected in 1924 , 31.4 meters high and which crowns the mountain. His enlightenment was converted to the optical fiber in 1992.

In 2008 , the Office de consultation publique de Montral is holding a major consultation on the future of Mount Royal. The themes are the protection of green spaces, flora and fauna, traffic and parking, the bike off road, new buildings and facilities, landscapes, etc..

Parc du Mont-Royal

Main article: Parc du Mont-Royal.

The Beaver Lake in Mount Royal Park.

Some 350 years after the visit of the explorer Jacques Cartier on Mount Royal, that is to say around 1875, the city of Montreal created a green space there, Parc du Mont-Royal, which was inaugurated on May 24 1876, Day of Queen Victoria. Parc du Mont-Royal is one of the largest green spaces in Montreal. Largely wooded, the park was built in 1876 by Frederick Law Olmsted , landscape architect of Central Park in New York.

Residential areas and institutions

Outside the park, the mountain home on the slopes of important institutions such as Notre-Dame-des-Neiges and Mount Royal, the St. Joseph Oratory , the largest church in Canada, the McGill University and the University Montreal , and affluent residential districts such Westmount , Outremont and Town of Mount Royal. Other institutions: the Royal Victoria Hospital.

Names of Montral, Montrgie and Monteregians

This hill called Mount Royal by Jacques Cartier gave birth to the city that borrowed the name: Montreal. Under the initiative of the geologist Frank Dawson Adams , the hills of the plain of Saint-Laurent surrounding Mount Royal took the name "royal mountain" is Mount Regii, Latin version of Mount Royal.

Today, the term Monteregian means any group of hills marking the plain of St. Lawrence.

The toponym Montrgie also means a region lying south-western province of Quebec and the marked presence of Monteregian.