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Article: Montreal readies to celebrate the Great Peace.
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- Wind Speaker
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- May 1, 2001
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MONTREAL
Celebration of the anniversary of the signing of the Great Peace Treaty of Montreal is a year-long event that began in September 2000 and will have its high point Aug. 4 this year in Old Montreal.
On that date in 1701, Louis-Hector de Calliere, on behalf of the French, signed a treaty with 39 First Nations chiefs that ended a century of war between the five Iroquois nations and the French and other tribes who were allied with the French.
A partial re-enactment of the signing will take place at the original site where it occurred-the present-day Pointe-a-Calliere, Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History. Some First Nations will mark ...