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Montreal ( CA: / ˌmʌntriˈɔːl / ⓘ MUN-tree-AWL; French: Montréal [mɔ̃ʁeal] ⓘ) is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.
- List of People From Montreal
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- Island of Montreal
The Island of Montreal (French: Île de Montréal) is a large...
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- Old Port of Montreal
The Old Port of Montreal is the historic port of Montreal,...
- Montreal Metro
The Montreal Metro (French: Métro de Montréal) is a...
- Demographics of Montreal
Montreal's Italian community is one of the largest in...
- Olympic Stadium
Olympic Stadium (French: Stade olympique) is a multi-purpose...
- Mount Royal
Mount Royal (French: Mont Royal, IPA: [mɔ̃ ʁwajal]) is a...
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Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal (French: Oratoire...
- List of People From Montreal
Montréal ( /ˈmɔ̃.ˌʁe.al/ 3 Écouter) est la principale ville du Québec. Grande métropole 4 insulaire et portuaire du fleuve Saint-Laurent, au pied des rapides de Lachine, c'est la deuxième ville la plus peuplée du Canada (avec 1 762 949 habitants en 2021 5 ), après Toronto, et la plus grande ville francophone d' Amérique 6.
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- Pre-Contact
- Montreal During The French Colonial Period
- British Rule and The American Revolution
- The City of Montreal
- 1914–1939
- The Quiet Revolution and The Modernization of Montreal
- Quebec Independence Movement
- Economic Recovery
- Merger and Demerger
- Origin of The Name
The area known today as Montreal had been inhabited by indigenous peoples for some 8,000 years, while the oldest known artifact found in Montreal proper is about 4,000 years old. By about 1000 A.D., nomadic Iroquoian and other peoples around the Great Lakes began to adopt the cultivation of maize and more settled lifestyles. Some settled along the ...
The first European to reach the area was Jacques Cartier on October 2, 1535. Cartier visited the villages of Hochelaga (on Montreal Island) and Stadacona (near modern Quebec City), and noted others in the valley which he did not name. He recorded about 200 words of the people's language. Seventy years after Cartier, explorer Samuel de Champlain tra...
Ville-Marie remained a French settlement until 1760, when Pierre de Rigaud, marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial surrendered it to the British army under Jeffery Amherst after a two month campaign. With Great Britain's victory in the Seven Years' War, the Treaty of Paris in 1763 marked its end, with the French being forced to cede Canadaand all its depen...
Montreal was incorporated as a city in 1832. The city's growth was spurred by the opening of the Lachine Canal, which permitted ships to pass by the unnavigable Lachine Rapids south of the island. As the capital of the United Province of Canada from 1844 to 1849, Montreal attracted more English-speaking immigrants: Late Loyalists, Irish, Scottish, ...
Montrealers volunteered to serve in the army in the early days of World War I, but most French Montrealers opposed mandatory conscription and enlistment fell off. After the war, the Prohibitionmovement in the United States turned Montreal into a destination for Americans looking for alcohol. Americans went to Montreal for its drinking, gambling, an...
By the beginning of the 1960s, a new political movement was rising in Quebec. The newly elected Liberal government of Jean Lesage made reforms that helped francophone Quebecers gain more influence in politics and in the economy, thus changing the city. More francophones began to own businesses as Montreal became the centre of French culture in Nort...
At the end of the 1960s, the independence movement in Quebec was in full swing due to a constitutional debate between the Ottawa and Quebec governments. Radical groups formed, most notably the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ). In October 1970, members of the FLQ's "Liberation Cell" kidnapped and murdered Pierre Laporte, a minister in the Nationa...
During the 1980s and early 1990s, Montreal experienced a slower rate of economic growththan many other major Canadian cities. By the late 1990s, however, Montreal's economic climate had improved, as new firms and institutions began to fill the traditional business and financial niches. As the city celebrated its 350th anniversary in 1992, construct...
The concept of having one municipal government for the island of Montreal was first proposed by Jean Drapeau in the 1960s. The idea was strongly opposed in many suburbs, although Rivière-des-Prairies, Saraguay (Saraguay) and Ville Saint Michel (now the Saint-Michel neighbourhood) were annexed to Montreal between 1963 and 1968. Pointe-aux-Trembleswa...
During the early 18th century, the name of the island came to be used as the name of the town. Two 1744 maps by Nicolas Bellin identified the island as Isle de Montréal and the town as Ville-Marie; but a 1726 map refers to the town as "la ville de Montréal". The name Ville-Marie soon fell into disuse. Today it is used to refer to the Montreal borou...
De 1534 à 1763, le Québec est, sous le nom de Canada, la colonie la plus développée de la Nouvelle-France. À la suite de la guerre de Sept Ans, le Québec devient une colonie britannique entre 1763 et 1867, d'abord en tant que Province de Québec (1763–1791), puis comme province du Bas-Canada (1791–1841) avant de devenir le Canada-Est ...
Quebec [a] ( French: Québec [kebɛk] ⓘ) [12] is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area [b] and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, [13] between its most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City.
Modern Quebec was part of the territory of New France, the general name for the North American possessions of France until 1763. At its largest extent, before the Treaty of Utrecht , this territory included several colonies, each with its own administration: Canada , Acadia , Hudson Bay , and Louisiana .
The timeline of Montreal history is a chronology of significant events in the history of Montreal, Canada's second-most populated city, with about 3.5 million residents in 2018, and the fourth-largest French-speaking city in the world.
