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This section of the timeline of Montreal history concerns the events from the 1640s in Montreal. Events - 1641 Foundation of the Soci t de Notre-Dame de Montr al pour la conversion des sauvages de la Nouvelle-France.
- 1641 Charles Lallemant obtained the concession of the Island of Montreal for the colony of J r me Le Royer de la Dauversi re, and recruited Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve and Jeanne Mance, the nurse and treasurer of the contingent.
- 1641 Some fifty French settlers, both men and women who were promised free land are recruited in France by J r me Le Royer de la Dauversi re, of Anjou, on behalf of the Soci t de Notre-Dame de Montr al. The society hoped to convert the Natives and create a model Catholic community.
- 1641 On May 9, Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve and his recruits left La Rochelle in two ships. Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve boarded one with a secular priest for the Ursuline Convent and twenty-five men; Jeanne Mance, and a woman, the Jesuit father La Place, and 12 men went aboard the second. At first the two ships were able to stay together, but after eight days they were driven apart by the winds. Fran ois Dollier de Casson wrote that "the ship carrying Mademoiselle Mance experienced little other than calm weather, M. de Maison-neufve s encountered such violent storms that it had to put back to port three times."
- 1641 A third vessel was sent by the Company from Dieppe; she contain ten men and was the first to reach Canada.
- 1641 On August 8, the ship of Jeanne Mance arrived at Quebec City.
- 1641 The ship of Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve arrived at Quebec City only on August 20, when hope of his appearing that year was being abandoned. Fall storms delayed their plans for the settlement of Montreal.
- 1641 Accompanied by Barth lemy Vimont and Charles de Montmagny, Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve went up the river, and took formal possession of the island on the 15th of October in the name of the 'Society of Our Lady of Montreal.' Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve is the first governor.
- 1641 Jean Bourdon's map shows the "abitation du Monreal".
- 1641-42 The colonists spent the winter at St Michel, near Sillery, in the house of Pierre de Puiseaux (1566 1647).
- 1642 In February, all the associates went together to the Notre Dame de Paris; those of them who were priest officiated, and all of them supplicated the Queen of Angels to take the Montreal Island under her protection.
- 1642 On May 8, Maisonneuve led his company - in a pinnace, a barge, and two rowboats - to the site of the new colony. Charles de Montmagny accompanied the mission.
- 1642 The arrival on May 17; the mission named Ville Marie was built at Place Royal.
- 1642 Barth lemy Vimont, the superior of the Jesuits, says the first messe in Ville Marie on May 18.
- 1642 The Algonquin Joseph Oumasasikweie and his wife, Mitigoukwe (later Jeanne) were the first Indians to be baptized and married with full church rites at Ville-Marie on July 28.
- 1642 The construction of Fort Ville-Marie began around the initial hamlet as protection against Iroquois attacks, and by the time the palisade was complete in 1646, it was an impressive sight.
- 1642 Fort Richelieu built by Charles de Montmagny; it was commenced on August 13, when 40 men led by Charles de Montmagny arrived at the site.
- 1642 Assumption of Mary celebrated on August 15; a great number bothe of French and Indians were present. On the evening of this day, Maisonneuve visit Mont Royal. Two old Indians accompanied him to the summit.
- 1642 Big flood on December 23.
- 1643 The first Mount Royal Cross was erected on January 6.
- 1643 In March, Tessouat arrived at the new settlement of Ville-Marie, where his nephew Joseph Oumasasikweie was then living. To the surprise of all, Tessouat requested baptism and a Christian marriage. His conversion was greatly prized because of his importance as chief and because of his former hostility. Great solemnity therefore was observed in the ceremonies on 9 March. Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve granted land to Tessouat and gave him two men to help cultivate it.
- 1643 On June 9, the first persons were killed at Montreal during the first attack by the Iroquois. Forty Iroquois warriors surprised six Frenchmen at work hewing timber within a gunshot of the fort; Iroquois killed three of them and took the remaining three prisoners.
- 1643 At the end of August, a vessel with a reinforcement commanded by Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge arrived at Ville-Marie; he played a leading role there. His wife arrived with d'Ailleboust, accompanied by her sister, Mademoiselle Philippine de Boulogne.
- 1643 Marie-Madeline de Chauvigny de la Peltrie and Madame de Puiseaux left Ville-Marie.
- 1643 Jean Boisseau's map shows the "Sault de Montreal".
- 1643 La Dauversi re published a book on Ville-Marie, The Purpose of Montreal, that raised support for the project in Paris. Written in 1643, it describes the settlement shortly after its founding: "There is a chapel there that serves as a parish, under the title of Notre Dame. The inhabitants live for the most part communally, as in a sort of inn; others live on their private means, but all live in Jesus Christ, with one heart and soul."
- 1643-45 The Iroquois harass Montreal.
- 1644 Iroquois attack on March 16.
- 1644 Eighty Iroquois attack on March 30. Barth lemy Vimont says that two Frenchmen were made prisoners, and burned.
- 1645 The hospital was initially located within the fort. Then Maisonneuve granted the first concession outside the fortifications to Jeanne Mance so that she could build her H tel-Dieu de Montr al; work began on it on October 8, 1645. By 1659 Jeanne Mance had brought from France three nuns from the Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph to act as staff.
- 1645 The treaty with the Iroquois. The peace of a few months was broken and the Iroquois terror once more haunted forest and stream.
- 1645 In October, Huron and Algonkins Indians broke into the house of Pierre Gadois (Gadoyes) (1594 1667) on several occasions to steal food from him and beat him. Pierre returned to the Quebec City area from 1646-1647.
- 1645-46 Tessouat wintered at Montreal where he planted corn, but he withdrew to Trois-Rivi res, urging others to do likewise, in the face of reports that Iroquois raids were imminent. This probably resulted from his learning that the French had abandoned non-Christian Algonkins in the 1645 treaty with the Iroquois.
- 1646-53 The war with Iroquois.
- 1646 The Fort Richelieu was abandoned at the end of the year; it was burned down by the Iroquois in February 1647. In 1665, the Carignan-Sali res Regiment rebuilt the fort on the same site.
- 1647 Jacques de La Fert from the Company of One Hundred Associates granted La Prairie to the Jesuits.
- 1647 The first ball in Montreal.
- 1648 First land concession, to the Pierre Gadois and Louise Mauger (1598 1690) household on January 4; the land comprised 40 arpents or approximately 300,000 square meters and the location of the property coincides with the present rue Saint Pierre in the east, Rue McGill in the west, Rue Saint-Paul in the south and rue Ontario in the north. Before, the inhabitants of Ville Marie lived a communal life working in the fields during the day and then bedding down within the fortified walls of the village during the evening hours.
- 1648 Adrienne Du Vivier arrived; she and her husband, Augustin H bert, are often referred to as "Montreal's First Citizens."
- 1648 The first white child is born in Ville Marie, Barbe Meusnier, on November 24.
- 1648 Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge was appointed governor of New France, at the recomandation of Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve.
- 1648 The mill built.
- 1648 The Iroquois invaded Huronia and wiped out most of the Huron's and French missionaries living in the territory. The French settlers and Iroquois would fight many battles around the outskirts of New France.
- 1640s Ren Menard was the confessor of the family of Sieur Charles Dailleboust des Musseaux (1621 1700) in Ville-Marie.
Gallery <gallery> Image:Lambert Closse.jpg|Lambert Closse, Maisonneuve Monument Image:Piere le Ber - Le vrai portrait de Marguerite Bourgeoys - 1700.jpg|Marguerite Bourgeoys, the town's first teacher Image:Statue of Jeanne Mance, at Hotel Dieu hospital (Montreal) 24-MAY-2006.JPG|Mance Monument, Mance was the town's first nun Image:Charles Le Moyne.jpg|Charles le Moyne, Maisonneuve Monument </gallery> See also
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