Definitions for "Hochelaga"
An Iroquois village that was once where Montreal is now. About 200 people lived there in the time of Jacques Cartier. 100 years later, it was gone.
Hochelaga (formerly known as Sainte-Marie and Montreal—Sainte-Marie) is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1988 and since 2004. Its population in 2001 was 100,934.
Hochelaga was a St. Lawrence Iroquoian fortified village near present-day Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its first European contact was by a French expedition led by Jacques Cartier in 1535, who named a nearby mountain Mont Realis.