715 rue Dubois St-Eustache, Québec J7P 3W1 (450) 974-4600 or (866) 668-5610. The lowest temperature in Environment Canada's books was −37.8 °C (−36 °F) on January 15, 1957, and the highest temperature was 37.6 °C (99.7 °F) on August 1, 1975, both at Dorval International Airport. It was eliminated in 1990 in favour of rerouting The Canadian. [citation needed]. Before these 100 arrived in the fall of 1653, the population of Montreal was barely 50 people. All three are now Mohawk reserves in Canada. [54][55], In the 19th century, maintaining Montreal's drinking water became increasingly difficult with the rapid increase in population. Find a post office near you using our online tool. Montreal also held the World's Fair of 1967, better known as Expo67. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. [151][152] The city is also home to Mila (research institute), an artificial intelligence research institute with over 500 researchers specializing in the field of deep learning, the largest of its kind in the world.[153]. Many of these Autoroutes are frequently congested at rush hour. Other popular events include the Just for Laughs (largest comedy festival in the world), Montreal World Film Festival, Les FrancoFolies de Montréal, Nuits d'Afrique, Pop Montreal, Divers/Cité, Fierté Montréal and the Montreal Fireworks Festival, and many smaller festivals. Most of it will be financed by pension fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec. [201] Montreal also hosted the first ever World Outgames in the summer of 2006, attracting over 16,000 participants engaged in 35 sporting activities. Montreal location on the Canada Map Click to see large. [43][44] In 1611, Champlain established a fur trading post on the Island of Montreal on a site initially named La Place Royale. Hazen sent Colonel Timothy Bedel to form a garrison of 390 men 40 miles upriver in a garrison at Les Cèdres, Quebec, to defend Montreal against the British army. Cloudflare Ray ID: 6069b9fc5ff7dd77 FedEx Locations - Montreal, QC. [12] Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with over 59% of the population able to speak both English and French. In time, this development led to the end of the city's economic dominance as businesses moved to other areas. In the spring of 1651, the Iroquois attacks became so frequent and so violent that Ville-Marie thought its end had come. km (3,855,100 sq mi), Canada includes a wide variety of land regions, vast maritime terrains, thousands of islands, more lakes and inland waters than any other country, and the longest coastline on the planet. By May 24, Arnold was entrenched in Montreal's borough of Lachine. The city is composed of 19 large boroughs, subdivided into neighbourhoods. Second, and perhaps more importantly, because it lay on the border between French and English Canada, Ottawa was seen as a compromise between Montreal, Toronto, Kingston and Quebec City, which were all vying to become the young nation's official capital. [227][228][229][230][231] In 2018, Trudeau was the third busiest airport in Canada by passenger traffic and aircraft movements, handling 19.42 million passengers,[232][233] and 240,159 aircraft movements. The head of the city government in Montreal is the mayor, who is first among equals in the city council. The demerger took place on January 1, 2006, leaving 15 municipalities on the island, including Montreal. a historical and linguistic guide", "Natural Resources Canada, Origins of Geographical Names: Island of Montréal", "Place Royale and the Amerindian presence", Bruce G. 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Montreal, c’est si bon! The Plateau Mount Royal borough was a working class francophone area. Web. In recent decades, the city was widely seen as weaker than that of Toronto and other major Canadian cities, but it has recently experienced a revival. [47] In 1689, the English-allied Iroquois attacked Lachine on the Island of Montreal, committing the worst massacre in the history of New France. Conversely, cold fronts can bring crisp, drier and windy weather in the early and later parts of summer. It is one of Air Canada's major hubs and operates on average approximately 2,400 flights per week between Montreal and 155 destinations, spread on five continents. They have major rivalries with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins, both of which are also Original Six hockey teams, and with the Ottawa Senators, the closest team geographically. 22 déc. The Alouettes have won the Grey Cup seven times, most recently in 2010. Protestants which include Anglican Church in Canada, United Church of Canada, Lutheran, owing to British and German immigration, and other denominations number 5.90%, with a further 3.7% consisting mostly of Orthodox Christians, fuelled by a large Greek population. Old Montreal is accessible from the downtown core via the underground city and is served by several STM bus routes and Metro stations, ferries to the South Shore and a network of bicycle paths. Downtown Montreal. The fountainiers would open and close water valves outside of buildings, as directed, all over the city. The borough with the most neighbourhoods is Ville Marie, which includes downtown, the historical district of Old Montreal, Chinatown, the Gay Village, the Latin Quarter, the gentrified Quartier international and Cité Multimédia as well as the Quartier des Spectacles which is under development. The leaders of Montreal's business community had started to build their homes in the Golden Square Mile (~2.6 km2) from about 1850. By 1685, Ville-Marie was home to some 600 colonists, most of them living in modest wooden houses. It means "a place where nations and rivers unite and divide". [66] However, Toronto's growth had begun challenging Montreal's status as the economic capital of Canada. The city is named after the most prominent geographical feature on the island, a three-head hill called Mount Royal, topped at 232 m (761 ft) above sea level. Book online. Find locations. Montreal has numerous weekly tabloids and community newspapers serving various neighbourhoods, ethnic groups and schools. One such example is the extension of Quebec Autoroute 30 on Montreal's south shore, which will serve as a bypass.[218]. Some of the city's earliest still-standing buildings date back to the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Indeed, the volume of stocks traded at the Toronto Stock Exchange had already surpassed that traded at the Montreal Stock Exchange in the 1940s. [211], Additionally, two French-language universities, Université de Sherbrooke and Université Laval have campuses in the nearby suburb of Longueuil on Montreal's south shore. Parcourez les petites annonces de location d'appartements au Canada et publiez la vôtre gratuitement. VIA Rail Canada Montreal Station: Location, location, location - See 826 traveler reviews, 111 candid photos, and great deals for Montreal, Canada, at Tripadvisor. Soyez chez vous, ailleurs, avec Airbnb. [83], Annual precipitation is around 1,000 mm (39 in), including an average of about 210 cm (83 in) of snowfall, which occurs from November through March. The cisterns would then be transported to the desired location. Pick-up service policies (hours of availability, allowable pick-up distance, etc.) Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery is much larger, predominantly French-Canadian and officially Catholic. Extreme high and low temperatures in the table below are from Montreal McGill (July 1871 to March 1993) and McTavish (July 1994 to present). Enter ZIP/Postal Code or City. Montreal is a centre of film and television production. The five most numerous visible minorities are Black Canadians (10.3%), Arab Canadians, mainly Lebanese Canadians (7.3%), Latin Americans (4.1%), South Asian Canadian (3.3%), and Chinese Canadians (3.3%). [226] To the north of the city is Montreal Mirabel International Airport in Mirabel, which was envisioned as Montreal's primary airport but which now serves cargo flights along with MEDEVACs and general aviation and some passenger services. Canada. "Water-supply." There are two free French dailies, Métro and 24 Heures. By 1951, Montreal's population had surpassed one million. Demerged municipalities remain affiliated with the city through an agglomeration council that collects taxes from them to pay for numerous shared services. STM bus routes serve 1,347,900 passengers on an average weekday in 2010. Montreal… Long term and short term options available. It has a tradition of producing both jazz and rock music. [72] The 2002 mergers were not the first in the city's history. [156] As of March 2018, Montreal is ranked in the 12th position in the Global Financial Centres Index, a ranking of the competitiveness of financial centres around the world. [70] In 1976, Montreal hosted the Summer Olympics. Since 1990, The Canadian has terminated in Toronto. Montreal… This was not the first water system of its type in Montreal, as there had been one in private ownership since 1801. After Arnold withdrew from Quebec City to Pointe-aux-Trembles on November 19, Montgomery's forces left Montreal on December 1 and arrived there on December 3 to plot to attack Quebec City, with Montgomery leaving David Wooster in charge of the city. In the 2016 census, children under 14 years of age (691,345) constituted 16.9%, while inhabitants over 65 years of age (671,690) numbered 16.4% of the total population of the CMA. Montreal was referred to as "Canada's Cultural Capital" by Monocle magazine. The council is required to supervise, standardize or approve certain decisions made by the borough councils. [136] The city is today an important centre of commerce, finance, industry, technology, culture, world affairs and is the headquarters of the Montreal Exchange. 1 Place Ville Marie-Ground Floor, Downtown Montreal, Montreal, H3C 3B5. [41] By the year AD 1000, they had started to cultivate maize. Downtown Montreal. [244], "Montrealer" redirects here. [205] The major criminal organizations active in Montreal are the Rizzuto crime family, Hells Angels and West End Gang. [76][77] Arnold eventually withdrew his forces back to the New York fort of Ticonderoga by the summer. [45] On his 1616 map, Champlain named the island Lille de Villemenon in honour of the sieur de Villemenon, a French dignitary who was seeking the viceroyship of New France. Montreal averages 2,050 hours of sunshine annually, with summer being the sunniest season, though slightly wetter than the others in terms of total precipitation—mostly from thunderstorms. The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve also hosted a round of the Champ Car World Series from 2002 to 2007, and was home to the NAPA Auto Parts 200, a NASCAR Nationwide Series race, and the Montréal 200, a Grand Am Rolex Sports Car Series race. While Arnold approached the Plains of Abraham, Montreal fell to American forces led by Richard Montgomery on November 13, 1775, after it was abandoned by Guy Carleton. Search country. In the mid 1840s, the City of Montreal installed a water system that would pump water from the St. Lawrence and into cisterns. Montreal-based Canadian National Railways (CN) was formed in 1919 by the Canadian government following a series of country-wide rail bankruptcies. [68] During the 1960s, there was continued growth as Canada's tallest skyscrapers, new expressways and the subway system known as the Montreal Metro were finished during this time. [138] [154] Recently, the city has attracted world leading game developers and publishers studios such as EA, Eidos Interactive, BioWare, Artificial Mind and Movement, Strategy First, THQ, Gameloft mainly because of the quality of local specialized labor, and tax credits offered to the corporations. N.p., n.d. The overall crime rate in Montreal has declined, with a few notable exceptions, with murders at the lowest rate since 1972 (23 murders in 2016). For other uses, see. In the Ojibwe language, the land is called Mooniyaang[37] which served as "the first stopping place" in Ojibwe migration story as related in the seven fires prophecy. It includes a veterans section with several soldiers who were awarded the British Empire's highest military honour, the Victoria Cross. The city has also produced much talent in the fields of visual arts, theatre, music, and dance. The boroughs are: The island of Montreal is a hub for the Quebec Autoroute system, and is served by Quebec Autoroutes A-10 (known as the Bonaventure Expressway on the island of Montreal), A-15 (aka the Decarie Expressway south of the A-40 and the Laurentian Autoroute to the north of it), A-13 (aka Chomedey Autoroute), A-20, A-25, A-40 (part of the Trans-Canada Highway system, and known as "The Metropolitan" or simply "The Met" in its elevated mid-town section), A-520 and A-720 (aka the Ville-Marie Autoroute). [221] It is Canada's busiest subway system in total daily passenger usage, serving 1,050,800 passengers on an average weekday (as of Q1 2010). An internment camp was set up at Immigration Hall in Montreal from August 1914 to November 1918. [137], Industries include aerospace, electronic goods, pharmaceuticals, printed goods, software engineering, telecommunications, textile and apparel manufacturing, tobacco, petrochemicals, and transportation.