Great Peace of Montreal
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The Great Peace of Montreal was a peace treaty between New France and 39 First Nations of North America.
It was signed on August 4, 1701, by Louis-Hector de Callière, governor of New France, and 1200 representatives of 39 aboriginal nations of the North East of America. The treaty ended 100 years of war between the Iroquois, allied to the English, and the French, allied to the Hurons and the Algonquians. It provided 16 years of peaceful relations and trade before war started again.
Present for the diplomatic event were the various peoples part the Iroquois confederacy, the Huron peoples, and the Algonquians peoples.
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