Montreal

1. the origin of its name:

The city of Montreal holds its name of the Island of Montreal, which was so named because of the Royal mount, the mountain in the center of the Island. Indeed, in 1535, the explorer Jacques Cartier had named the mountain Mons realis (Royal mount). In 1556, the Italian geographer Giovanni Battista Ramusio made the translation of Royal Mount for Horsemanship Reale on a card.
In 1575, François de Belleforest became the first one to write Montreal, writing: " in the middle of the countryside is the village, or Quoted royal jointed in a mountain cultivated, the christians named it Montreal."
At the beginning of the XVIIIe century, the name of the island begins to be used to indicate the city itself. Two maps of 1744 by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin name the island Island of Montreal and the city, City-Marie; but a map in 1726 refers to the city as being " the city of Montreal ". The name City-Marie fast goes out of use to refer to the city. Today, City-Marie became the name of a district of Montreal which includes old-Montreal and the city center. In the modern language of Iroquois, Montreal is called Tiohtià:ke. Other native autochthonous languages, such the algonquien refer in Montreal as Moniang.

2. The metropole today:

It is with the construction of the subway of Montreal in 1966, in time for the Exhibition ' 67, that underground Montreal takes a development. Montreal receives the Summer Olympics of 1976 and celebrates its 350th birthday in 1992.
On January 1st, 2002, all the municipalities situated on the island of Montreal, adding up a population of 1,871,774 people, as well as on several peripheral islands which composed until now the Urban District of Montreal, was merged to form the new city of Montreal.

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