Welcome to Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The native Indian settlement of Hochelaga was a trading post when Jacques Cartier planted his cross atop Mont-Royal. The first French settlers founded the colony of Ville-Marie in 1642 on the same site as Hochelaga only to rename it Montreal a few short years later.
A French settlement for most of its existence, Montreal is also the second largest French-speaking city in the world outside of France. Montreal was incorporated into the British Empire in 1760. Montreal is the second largest city in Canada with a population of over 1.7 million with 3.3 million in the greater metropolitan region.
Multi-cultural neighbourhoods include Chinatown (between Coté and Saint-Laurent), Little Italy (bordered by the quadrangle of St-Ziotique), Jean-Talon Boulevard,(Drolet and Marconi), the Greek community of Park-Ex (Park Avenue), the Rainbow Village or simply The Village (along Sainte-Catherine, from Saint-Hubert to Papineau), the Quartier Latin francophone hub of Montreal located between Sainte-Catherine and Sherbrooke from Sanguinet to Berri) and Plateau Mont-Royal the trendy community of artistes and fashionable Montrealers located north of Sherbrooke and east of Saint-Laurent).
Montreal Maps
Map of the greater Montreal area
The numbers on the map correspond to the following points of interest:
1:Morgan Arboretum, 2:Centrale Riviere-des-Prairies, 3:Lachine Canal interpretation centre, 4:Cosmodome, 5:Delco Aviation, 6:St-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal, 7:St Laurence Valley Ecomuseum, 8:Visitation Church Sault-au-Recollet, 9:Electrium, 10:Macdonald Campus Farm, 11:Flowers Aviation, 12:Fort Chambly, 13:Fourquet Fourchet, 14:Imax Les Ailes, 15:St Laurence River excursions, 16:Lachine Fur Trade historic site, 17:Fleming Windmill historic site, 18:Museum of the City of Lachine, 19:Delson/St Constant Canadian Railway Museum, 20:to Parc Safari, 21:Recreatheque, 22:Site Cavernicole de St-Leonard, 23:Sport Action 2000, 24:Sucrerie de la Montagne (maple sugar), 25:to Granby Zoo
METRO Du Montreal
Visiting Montreal? Here are some useful tips to avoid bad surprises at the métro ticket booth: Purchase of transit fares can only be paid in cash. Our employees cannot provide foreign currency exchange. However, American Dollars are accepted at their nominal value (1 to 1) USA Tourists lose 20% - Get Canadian dollars before using the Metro.
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- Literacy Partners of Quebec, Judy Brandeis, Director
3040 Sherbrooke
Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3Z 1A4
tel: 514-931-8731, Fax:
514-931-5181, Email: jbrandeis@nald.ca
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