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Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, French soldier, founded Montreal (born 1612)
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Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)