Honoré-Mercier Bridge
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The Honoré Mercier Bridge in Quebec, Canada, connects the Montreal borough of LaSalle on the Island of Montreal with the Mohawk reserve of Kahnawake and the suburb of Châteauguay on the south shore of
The twin spans of the Mercier Bridge as seen from Lasalle in 2008.
Honoré Mercier bridge at sunset
Bridge in 1948
Underneath the Mercier Bridge in Kahnawake.
Kahnawake
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The Kahnawà꞉ke Mohawk Territory is a First Nations reserve on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada, across from Montreal. Established as Seigneury Sault du St-Louis by French
Honoré-Mercier Bridge
…Bridge (French Pont Honoré-Mercier) in Quebec, Canada, connects the Montreal borough of LaSalle on the Island of Montreal with the Mohawk reserve of Kahnawake and the suburb of Châteauguay on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. It is the most direct southerly route from the island of Montreal toward…
Sault-Saint-Louis seigneury, 1829. The surveyor (McCarty) identifies the portion of land that is claimed by the people of Kahnawake as "Morceau réclamé par les Sauvages" - portion claimed by the Indians. Also, with the words "Vraie ligne de la seigneurie Sauvage" - true boundary of the Indian Seigneury, the surveyor highlights that the original boundary of the Iroquois seigneury is situated in the Seigneury of LaPrairie.
Claude-Nicolas-Guillaume de Lorimier (Major de Lorimier), sketch, c. 1810.
Kahnawà:ke Lacrosse Club, Montreal, QC, 1867, by William Notman
An article on European-Mohawk conflict from the Montreal Star, 1907