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Language Greater Montreal Quebec Canada; French: 65.9% 79.1%: 21.4% English: 13.2% 8.9% 58.1%: Arabic: 4.5%: 2.1% 1.1% Spanish: 3.2%: 1.8% 1.3% Italian: 2.7%: 1.6% 1.3% Creole: 1.5%: 0.8% 0.2% Mandarin: 1.0% 0.1% 1.8%: Greek: 1.0%: 0.5% 0.4% Romanian: 0.8%: 0.4% 0.3% Portuguese: 0.8%: 0.5% 0.7% Russian: 0.7%: 0.3% 0.5% Vietnamese: 0.7%: 0.4% 0. ...
Census tracts in Montreal identified by mother tongue language. In terms of mother language (first language learned), the 2006 census reported that in the Greater Montreal Area, 66.5% spoke French as a first language, followed by English at 13.2%, while 0.8% spoke both as a first language. [66]
Geography of Montreal. Montreal is the second largest city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec, located along the Saint Lawrence River at its junction with the Ottawa River. The city is geographically constrained, with the majority on the Island of Montreal in the Hochelaga Archipelago, and has several prominent features ...
Montreal (/ ˌ m ʌ n t r i ˈ ɔː l /, spelled Montréal in French) is a city in the country of Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec and the second-largest city in Canada. It is the second-largest French-speaking city in the world after Paris .
Greater Montreal ( French: Grand Montréal) is the most populous metropolitan area in Quebec and the second most populous in Canada after Greater Toronto. In 2015, Statistics Canada identified Montreal 's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) as 4,258.31 square kilometres (1,644.14 sq mi) with a population of 4,027,100, almost half that of the province.
Montreal is probably the outstanding city of Canada in terms of higher education. McGill University (founded 1821) and Concordia University (1974; formed by the merger of Sir George Williams University, founded in 1929, and Loyola College, founded in 1899) offer mainly English-language instruction, whereas the University of Montreal (1876) and the University of Quebec at Montreal (1968) serve ...
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