The primary source of documentation that allows us to appreciate both the configuration and position of this village is "Bref récit et succincte narration de le navigation faite en MDXXXV et MDXXXVI", which Cartier gave to King Francis I of France in 1545. We know of a plan titled "La Terra de Hochelaga nella Nova Francia", which illustrates, in the European manner of the period, Cartier's visit. Giacomo Gastaldi illustrated Hochelaga in the third volume of "Delle navigationi et viaggi", a work done in Venice between 1550 and 1556 by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. The perfect, regular arrangement of the houses, conforming to the urban ideal of the Italian Renaissance, as well as the boards covering the village's palisade, were probably his own fabrications. In fact, if the plan faithfully illustrates the notes of the French explorer, it offers little resemblance to ethnohistorical reality. A reproduction of "La Terra de Hochelaga" by Paul-Émile Borduas decorates the walls of the Grand Chalet of Mount Royal Park.