Hochelaga Archipelago

The Hochelaga Archipelago (French d' Hochelaga Archipelago ) is a group of islands in the southwest of the Canadian province of Quebec. It consists of 234 islands at the mouth of the Ottawa River in the St. Lawrence River. The archipelago comprises all the islands in the river Rivière des Mille Îles arms and Rivière des Prairies, the lakes in Lac Saint -Louis and Lac des Deux Montagnes and in a part of the St. Lawrence River.

The name is derived from Hochelaga, a village of the St. Lawrence Iroquois in the 16th century. It was first used in 1935 by Marie- Victorin, a botanist and Roman Catholic friar who laurentienne factory Flore described the fauna of the St. Lawrence Valley.

The largest island of the archipelago is the Ile de Montréal, on which lies the city of Montreal. The city area also includes 74 smaller islands, including Ile Bizard, Ile des Soeurs, Ile Notre -Dame, Île Sainte -Hélène and Île de la Visitation. The second largest island of the archipelago is Île Jésus, which together with the Îles Laval and other islands of the city of Laval. Other well-known islands are the Îles de Boucherville, Île Dorval, Île Perrot and Île Sainte -Thérèse.