Montreal 

History

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:

• Gilles Archambault, novelist
• Emille Nelligan[?], poet
• Leonard Cohen, poet
• Fifi D'Orsay, actress
• Marc Gagnon, Olympic Gold Metal speed skater
• Huntley Gordon, actor
• Prudence Heward[?], Beaver Hall Group artist
• Florence La Badie, actress
• Mario Lemieux, ice hockey player
• Oscar Peterson, jazz pianist
• Maurice Richard, ice hockey player
• Mordecai Richler, writer
• Douglas Shearer, Oscar winning motion picture sound engineer
• Norma Shearer, Academy Award winning actress
• William Shatner, actor
• Michel Tremblay, novelist, playwright

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

Sports Teams

• Montreal Alouettes, Canadian Football League
• Montreal Canadiens, National Hockey League
• Montreal Expos, Major League Baseball (National League)
• Montreal Impact[?], Professional Soccer

Montreal is the site of the Canadian Grand Prix, a Formula 1 auto race held annualy at "Circuit Gilles Villeneuve."

See also

List of cities in Canada, List of communities in Quebec

External links

• City of Montreal (http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/script/php/frameE.php?target=/newapp/servlet/newapp/template/NavPrincipalE.vm/racinecat/162)

• Montréal[?] is a commune in the Ardèche département.
• Montréal[?] is a commune in the Aude département.

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