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Mount Royal ( French: mont Royal) is a mountain on the Island of Montreal, immediately north of downtown Montréal, Québec, Canada, the city to which it gave its name.
The mountain is part of the Monteregian mountain chain situated between the Laurentians and the Appalachians. It gave its Latin name, Mons Regius, to the Monteregian chain.
Contrary to popular belief, Mount Royal is not an extinct volcano; however, it is the result of magma flows. It is a site where magma extruded into the Earth's crust and hardened into gabbro; subsequently, the surrounding earth was erodeErode is a city in Tamil Nadu, southeastern India. Population: approx. It is the capital of the Erode District. Geography Erode is located on Cauvery River. History It was the site of much fighting during the British wars with the Marathas. Economy The cid, leaving the mountain behind.
The mountain consists of three peaks: Royal at 223 metreFor other uses of "metre" and "meter", see Metre (disambiguation). The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Systeme International d'Unites). It is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in absolute vacus (732 feet), Outremont at 211 metres (692 feet), and Westmount at 201 metres (659 feet) elevationElevation has several related meanings: Geography The elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). A topographic map shows variations in elevation by contour lines. Elevation is mainly used wh above mean sea levelThe term above mean sea level AMSL refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. AMSL is used extensively in radio (both in broadcasting and other telecommunications uses) by engineers t. At this height, it might be otherwise considered a very tall hill, but it has always been called a mountain.
The first European to scale the mountain was Jacques CartierJacques Cartier ( Saint-Malo, France, December 31, 1491 January 19 1557) was a French explorer who is popularly thought of one of the major discoverers of Canada, or more specifically, the interior region that would be part of the first area that could be, guided there in 1535Events January 18 Lima, Peru founded by Francisco Pizarro June 24 The Anabaptist state of Munster is conquered and disbanded. May 19 French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail for his second voyage to North America with 3 ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacon by the people of the village of Hochelaga . He named it in honour his patron, King François I of France. He wrote in his journal:
The name of the city of Montreal derives from mont Réal, an orthographic variant introduced either in French, or by an Italian map maker ("Mount Royal" is monte Reale in Italian). The name had been unofficially applied to the city, formerly Ville-Marie, by the 18th century.
The first cross on the mountain was placed there in 1643 by Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, the founder of the city, in fulfillment of a vow he made to the Virgin Mary when praying to her to stop a disastrous flood. Today, the mountain is crowned by a 31.4-metre-high illuminated cross, installed in 1924 and converted to fibre-optic light in 1992. (The cross's lights have always been white, but the new system can turn the lights red, blue, or purple, which last is to be used upon the death of the pope.)