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In 1535 Jacques Cartier visited Hochelaga which he called Montreal, a large Indian settlement. "On the 3d October, having obtained the services of three nations as guides, Cartier, with his volunteers & part of his men, in full dress proceeded to visited the town. Hockelaga was situated in the midst of large fields of Indian corn; * from the description, must even then have been a very considerable place, and the metropolis of the neighboring Country. The construction & state of the Town discovered a degree of improvement,