Nelson's Column, Montreal

Erected somewhat tactlessly in Montreal Canada in 1809, before London's Nelson's Column, this monument stands in Place Jacques-Cartier.

Montreal founded in 1642 by Maisonneuve as Ville-Marie on the island of Mont Real in the St Lawrence River, was the French base for trade into the Great Lakes and Lousiana. There are good number of French colonial buildings, including foundations of the ramparts still to be seen, and a few small traces of the First Nation Amerindians.

Montreal was captured by the British Forces in 1760 after Wolfe's defeat of Montcalm on the Heights of Abraham outside Quebec.