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From: "Dora Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Three Rivers - Montreal
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:51:02 -0600
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Who was there first, the French or the English?

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX

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Subject: Re: [Q-R] Three Rivers - Montreal


> In a message dated 2/11/2006 1:46:17 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
> Even before 1600 the area was called Three Rivers even
> in french history books. You just have to go to
> www.google.com and type three rivers quebec 1600 to
> see. And yes, there are maps before 1600 calling it
> Three Rivers. The french changed it to the french
> name.
>
> From the Toponomical Commission of the Province of Quebec.
>
> The most important city in the region of Mauricie, Trois Rivières was
> established at the confluence of the the Saint-Laurent and Saint Maurice
> rivers,
> between Cap-de-la-Madeleine and Pointe-du-Lac some 140 km north of
> Montreal.
> Its descriptive name "Trois-Rivières" derives from the name "Rivière des
> Trois
> Rivières" formerly given to the Saint-Maurice, and was given to the fort
> and
> to the town surrounding the fort at the request of Champlain. The
> location
> had been visited by Jacques Cartier (1535), by François Gravé du Pont
> (1599),
> as a trading post with the Amerindians. The name is found on a map of
> Nouvelle-France drawn up by Guillaume Levasseur in 1601. In his Relation
> of
> 1635, Jesuit Father Paul le Jeune writes that the name derives from the
> geography
> of the area: "The French named the place "les Trois Rivières" because a
> beautiful river flows into the Saint-Laurent there, through three
> separate
> channels that flow around small islands at the river's mouth. The
> Abenaki called
> the river Madobaladenitekou, which means "river that ends". The
> Algonquins
> called it Metaberoutin, a name which is translated into French as
> "décharge de
> vent", which translates into English as "passing wind".
>
> The notion that the place had an English name before it was given its
> French
> name is, in a word, Metaberoutin.
>
>
>
> Fr. Owen Taggart
>
>
>
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