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There are some hypotheses concerning the origin of the name of Montreal. The most known is the one that finds it to be a variant of mont Royal. == Hypotheses concerning the origin of the name == The historian Marcel Trudel asked the following question: "where does the name "Mount Royal" come from? in honor of Cardinal de Medici, Archbishop of Monreale? in honor of Claude de Pontbriand, son of the Seigneur de Montréal? or simply in honor of the king? No explanation has been given".〔Marcel Trudel, Histoire de la Nouvelle-France, I, Les vaines tentatives, 1524-1603 (Montréal, Fides, 1962), 98, note 9.〕 Claude de Pontbriand, the Seigneur de Montréal (landlord of the Château de Montréal), accompanied Jacques Cartier on his expedition up the Saint Lawrence River, and was with him on October 3, 1535, when he reached Hochelaga, on the site of the present day city of Montreal. Among the hypotheses concerning the origin of Montreal's name, the most acceptable to Toponymy is the one that finds it to be a variant of mont Royal.〔(Jean Poirier, "Origine du nom de la ville de Montréal", ''Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française'', vol. 46, n° 1, 1992, p. 37-44. )〕 Note that in the 16th century réal was a variant of royal, hence the contraction of Mont Royal that gave Mont Réal or Montréal, as we have it today. The name Montréal referred first to the mountain, then to the island and finally to the city itself. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Name of Montreal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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