The Montreal Planetarium — formerly known as the Dow Planetarium — was inaugurated on April 1, 1966 by Mr. Jean Drapeau, who was Montreal’s mayor at the time.
Intro
Peace between the Iroquois and New France cleared the way for the colony’s westward growth.
In the early 1700s, French colonists left fortified settlements near Montreal to clear new farms on the east tip of the land wedge between the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers.
Griffintown and Point St. Charles were Canada’s first industrial slums, home to Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famines and generations of their descendants.
