Tools of stone found in the Montréal region are accepted to be around 4,000 years of age.

Jacques Cartier, a cartographer, and a French explorer, with a group of two dozen men, approach Hochelaga, a St. Lawrence Iroquoian invigorated village.

In the wake of building up Québec in 1608 and Trois-Rivières in 1634, the French government crafts a third settlement on the island of Montréal.

Montréal turns into the center of the fur trade in the seventeenth century

After a conclusive British success on the Plains of Abraham and the capturing of Québec City, the British military gather under Jeffrey Amherst and walk towards Montréal.

At that point in November 1775, the Americans occupied Montreal yet it has retreated within 7 months. Then, Montreal prospered under British rule.

The Bank of Montreal was established in 1817 and right after that in the year 1825 the Lachine Canal was established. It avoided rapids in the waterway.

During the nineteenth century amenities in Montreal continuously improved. From 1836 Montreal was lit by gas.