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Montreal : Montreal, Quebec | |||
A First Nations fort, Hochelaga, was found on the island when Jacques Cartier arrived in 1535. Samuel de Champlain visited again in 1603, but the French did not settle until 1642, when a group of priests, nuns, and colonists under Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve founded the village of Ville-Marie on May 17 of that year. The village grew and became an important centre of the fur trade. It was the jumping-off point for the French exploration of the interior by such explorers as Jolliet, La Salle, La Vérendrye, and Duluth[?]. The city was fortified in 1725 and remained French until 1760, when Vaudreuil de Cavagnal surrendered it to the British army under Lord Geoffrey Amherst.
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. Montreal was the capital of the Province of Canada from 1844 to 1849. A fire destroyed one quarter of town on May 18, 1765. The Canadian Pacific Railway made its headquarters here in 1880. Its international status was cemented by the World's Fair in 1967 and the Olympics in 1976.
Montreal constitutes one of the regions of Quebec.
Notable personalities in Montreal's history:
As of January 1, 2002, the entire island of Montreal, home to 1.8 million people, as well as the several outlying islands that were also part of the Montreal Urban Community, were merged into a new "megacity". Some 27 suburbs as well as the former city were folded into several boroughs, named after their former cities or (in the case of parts of the former Montreal) districts.
| Borough | Borough | Borough |
| Ahuntsic[?]/Cartierville[?] | LaSalle[?] | Rivière-des-Prairies[?]/Pointe-aux-Trembles[?]/Montréal-Est[?] |
| Anjou[?] | L'Île-Bizard[?]/Sainte-Geneviève[?]/Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue | Rosemont[?]/Petite-Patrie[?] |
| Beaconsfield[?]/Baie-d'Urfé[?] | Mercier[?]/Hochelaga-Maisonneuve[?] | Saint-Laurent[?] |
| Côte-des-Neiges/Notre-Dame-de-Grâce | Montréal-Nord[?] | Saint-Léonard[?] |
| Côte-Saint-Luc[?]/Hampstead/Montréal-Ouest[?] | Mont-Royal | Sud-Ouest (consisting of Point-Saint-Charles[?], Saint-Henri[?], Ville-Émard[?], Côte-Saint-Paul[?] & Petite-Bourgogne[?]) |
| Dollard-des-Ormeaux[?]/Roxboro[?] | Outremont | Verdun[?] |
| Dorval/L'Île-Dorval | Pierrefonds[?]/Senneville[?] | Ville-Marie (consisting of Downtown, Old Montreal, & the Gay Village) |
| Kirkland[?] | Plateau Mont-Royal | Villeray[?]/Saint-Michel[?]/Parc-Extension[?] |
| Lachine | Pointe-Claire[?] | Westmount |
| Italics: part of former city of Montreal | ||
Montreal is the site of the Canadian Grand Prix, a Formula 1 auto race held annualy at "Circuit Gilles Villeneuve."
List of cities in Canada, List of communities in Quebec
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with Emil up into the French country to attend a Catholic fair. He
the fair was held, talking to Marie Shabata, or strolled about the
doors, where the French boys were jumping.html">jumping and wrestling and throwing
they had just come up from a Sunday practice game down in the
their pitcher, renowned among the country towns for his dash and
much more boyish in appearance; very lithe and active and neatly
The Sainte-Agnes boys were to play the Hastings nine in a fortnight,
Frenchman seemed to get every ounce there was in him behind the
Emil said as they were walking from the ball-grounds back to the
spring."
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you wanna get married right off quick! It's the greatest thing
you. You wanna get some nice French girl.html">girl, now. She treat you well;
is Severine, and Alphosen, and Josephine, and Hectorine, and Louise,
get after them? Are you stuck up, Emil, or is anything the matter
didn't have no girl. You wanna be a priest, maybe? Not-a for me!"
I hope, and that's a way I help the church.html">Church."
Emil looked down and patted him on the shoulder. "Now you're windy,
to be lightly shaken off. "Honest and true, Emil, don't you want
grand,"--Amedee waved his hand languidly before his face.html">face to denote
Is that it?"
"Maybe," said Emil.
But Amedee saw no appropriate glow in his friend's face. "Bah!"
from you. You gotta rock in there," thumping Emil on the ribs.
When they reached the terrace at the side of the church, Amedee,
Emil to a jumping-match, though he knew he would be beaten. They
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