Great Peace of Montréal

May 17, 2017

First Peoples signatures of Aboriginal chiefs, Great Peace of Montreal, 1701. Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN 3050235, folio 44

1701

The Great Peace of Montréal ended nearly a century of conflict between the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy on one side and New France and its First Nation allies — including the Huron-Wendat, Anishnaabe, Innu and Abenaki — on the other. The agreement to end hostilities was reached at an extraordinary meeting in Montréal arranged by the governor of New France, Louis-Hector de Callière, and attended by some 1,300 representatives from nearly 40 First Nations.

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