Hochelaga
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French Hochelaga, from Laurentian osheaga (“waterfall”), referring to the Lachine Rapids.
Proper noun
[edit]Hochelaga
- A 16th century indigenous village on the island of Montreal, Quebec. In 1845, the name was given to a rural municipality surrounding Montreal and in 1854 to the county comprising the eastern half of the island of Montreal. The Village of Hochelaga, an eastern suburb of Montreal, was incorporated in 1863; it became a town in 1883 just before its annexation by Montreal, after which it was known as Hochelaga Ward. Since 2002, it is mostly comprised within the borough of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
- 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Relations of the Discoveries, Regions, and Religions, of the New World.] Of Newfound-Land, Noua Francia, Arambec, and other Countries of America, extending to Virginia.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book VIII (Of New France, Virginia, Florida; New Spaine, with Other Regions of America Mexicana, and of Their Religions), page 625:
- From the entrance vp to Hochelaga is three hundred leagues.