LACHINE  , an incorporated

town in Jacques Cartier county, Quebec, Canada, 8 m . W. of Montreal, on Lake St Louis, an expansion of the St Lawrence river, and at the upper end of the Lachine canal . Pop . (1901) 5561 . It is a station on the Grand Trunk railway and a port of call for steamers plying between Montreal and the Great Lakes . It is a favourite summer resort for the people of Montreal . It was named in 1669 mockery of its then owner, Robert Cavelier de la Salle (1643-'687), who dreamed of a westward passage to China . In 1689 it was the scene of a terrible massacre of the French by the Iroquois .