Political Leaders in Montreal

The atlas holds 4 people and 6 moments here, from 1535 to 1967. The most recorded lives are Jacques Cartier, Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle.

Notable people

1. Jacques Cartier

   from 1535 to 1541

   3 moments here

   French navigator and explorer from Saint-Malo whose three Atlantic voyages of 1534, 1535–1536, and 1541–1542 surveyed the Gulf and River of Saint…

2. Winston Churchill

   in 1900

   1 moment here

   Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874–1965) was a British soldier, journalist, author and statesman whose career ranged from imperial campaigns in…

3. Charles de Gaulle

   in 1967

   1 moment here

   French army officer, leader of Free France during the Second World War, head of France's Provisional Government, and president of the French Fifth…

4. Ernest Rutherford

   in 1898

   1 moment here

   New Zealand-born physicist and chemist whose research on radioactivity, the atomic nucleus, and nuclear transmutation helped establish nuclear…

Moments

1. 1535 Arrival at Hochelaga Jacques Cartier
2. 1535 Visit to the Lachine Rapids Jacques Cartier
3. 1541 Return to Hochelaga on third voyage Jacques Cartier
4. 1898 Macdonald Chair at McGill Ernest Rutherford
5. 1900 Travels to Montreal on lecture tour Winston Churchill
6. 1967 Vive le Québec libre speech Charles de Gaulle

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