Sault-au-Récollet

Recollet Rapids
Neighbourhood
Sault-au-Récollet
Visitation Church
Visitation Church
Recollet Rapids is located in Montreal
Recollet Rapids
Recollet Rapids
Location of Sault-au-Récollet in Montreal
Coordinates: 45°34′40″N 73°38′45″W / 45.57764°N 73.64582°W / 45.57764; -73.64582
CountryCanada
ProvinceQuebec
CityMontreal
BoroughAhuntsic-Cartierville
Postal Code
H2B
Area code(s)514, 438

Sault-au-Récollet (English: Recollet Rapids) is a neighbourhood in Montreal. It is located in the eastern edge of the borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville, bordering the Rivière des Prairies. Autoroute 19 connects Sault-au-Récollet to Laval. The neighbourhood was designated as a heritage site by the City of Montreal in 1992.[1] The Church of the Visitation at Sault-au-Récollet is the oldest church on the Island of Montreal and was built between 1749 and 1752. The streetcar suburb was annexed by Montreal to from the former borough of Ahuntsic-Bordeaux in 1918. A housing boom, mostly made up of multiplexes, followed in the 1940s and 1950s.

Name

The district is named after the Recollects, a friars' order to which the first missionaries sent from the colony of Quebec were sent to the country of the Hurons; including Nicolas Viel.

Viel had been one of the first missionaries in the country of the Hurons since 1923. In May 1625, Viel decided to return to Quebec city in the company of a band of Hurons, including Ahuntsic, with the intention of making a few days' retreat and then returning to his missions. It is known that both Viel and Ahuntsic drowned in the last chute of the Riviere des Prairies, which from that time bears the name of Sault-au-Récollet. An adjacent district has also been named in honour of Ahuntsic.[2]

Fort Lorette

The Sulpician missionaries had been operating a mission to the indigenous peoples of the area at Fort de la Montagne for about 20 years when they decided to move to Sault-au-Récollet. Part of this decision was due to an increase in brandy trade and exposure to alcoholism, and part was to move the fort to a more easily defended section of the island. [3] In 1696, a flock of 210 Algonquins was moved to Fort Lorette under the guidance of Fr Robert Gay. [4]

  • In 1726
    In 1726
  • 1890
    1890
  • 1930
    1930
  • An illustration of Fort de la Nouvelle-Lorette in 1672
    An illustration of Fort de la Nouvelle-Lorette in 1672

See also

References

  1. ^ "Neighbourhood Sault-au-Récollet - Discovery". NEIGHBOURHOODS AND SITES. Heritage Montreal. Retrieved 30 April 2012.
  2. ^ Jesuites de Canada (14 janvier 2020) Le premier noviciat jésuite: des leçons précieuses pour aujourd’hui [1]
  3. ^ Beaubien, Charles (1898). Le Sault-au-Récollet: ses rapports avec les premiers temps de la colonie (in French).
  4. ^ Paradis, Jean-Marc (1969). "GAY, ROBERT-MICHEL". Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2. University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved November 22, 2022.


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