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Ville-Marie officially began its existence on the 17th of May 1642 under Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve's governorship. A group of thirty-five French colonists stepped off their boats onto the southern shore of the island to establish a Roman Catholic mission dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve led the expedition of thirty-five French colonists to establish Ville-Marie. He served as the governor when the colony officially began its existence on the 17th of May 1642.
The 2021 Canadian census recorded a population of one million seven hundred sixty-two thousand nine hundred forty-nine residents for Montreal. Visible minorities comprised thirty-eight point eight percent of the city's total population that year.
The opening of the Lachine Canal in 1825 allowed ships to bypass unnavigable rapids west of the city. This engineering feat connected Montreal with continental markets and transformed it into Canada's commercial capital by 1860.
Construction costs for the 1976 Summer Olympics ballooned to nearly three billion dollars with interest included after reaching an initial $1.5 billion. The Olympic Stadium debt was finally paid off in December 2006 after decades of struggle.