[156] Many foreign subsidiaries operating in the financial sector also have offices in Montreal, including HSBC, Aon, Société Générale, BNP Paribas and AXA.[155][157]. Todd was an American citizen who deserted from the U.S. Army to avoid being sent to fight during the Vietnam War. Given its eclectic architecture and broad availability of film services and crew members, Montreal is a popular filming location for feature-length films, and sometimes stands in for European locations. [73] Montreal is defined by its location between the Saint Lawrence river to its south and the Rivière des Prairies to its north. [189] Major League Baseball came to town in the form of the Montreal Expos in 1969. The Montreal Herald closed in 1957, after publishing for 146 years.

[125], The Greater Montreal Area is predominantly Roman Catholic; however, weekly attendance in Quebec is among the lowest in Canada. Montreal's many cultural communities have given it a distinct local culture. The commuter rail system is managed and operated by Exo, and reaches the outlying areas of Greater Montreal with six lines. It is the set of interconnected shopping complexes (both above and below ground). Edwards eventually won the printing press and newspaper and continued operations until his assets were seized in 1808. The video game industry has been booming in Montreal since 1997, coinciding with the opening of Ubisoft Montreal. Yet, being at the confluence of the French and the English traditions, Montreal has developed a unique and distinguished cultural face. Mount Royal Cemetery is a 165 acres (67 ha) terraced cemetery on the north slope of Mount Royal in the borough of Outremont. Coderre pledges to make Dublin and Montreal sister cities", "Dublin and Montreal to become twin cities", "Liste – Protocoles et Ententes Internationales Impliquant La Ville de Montréal", "Manila-Montreal Sister City Agreement Holds Potential for Better Cooperation", Canadian Geographical Names: Island of Montreal, Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site, Sir George-Étienne Cartier National Historic Site, Robert-Bourassa Boulevard/University Street, L'Île-Bizard—Sainte-Geneviève—Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Montreal Metropolitan Community (Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal), Regional county municipalities and equivalent territories, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Montreal&oldid=985127916, French mission settlements in North America, Populated places on the Saint Lawrence River, Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments, Articles with French-language sources (fr), Articles with dead external links from December 2017, Articles with permanently dead external links, Short description is different from Wikidata, All Wikipedia articles written in Canadian English, Pages using infobox settlement with possible nickname list, Pages using infobox settlement with possible demonym list, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2016, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Articles with unsourced statements from July 2018, Articles containing Italian-language text, Articles with unsourced statements from May 2015, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Tomàs, Mariona.

The current editor-in-chief is Lucinda Chodan and the associate managing editors are James Bassil and Jeff Blond. Also, l'Institut de pastorale des Dominicains is Montreal's university centre of Ottawa's Collège Universitaire Dominicain/Dominican University College.

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[4] The columns were mostly on education, religion, and literature, and after 1788 on politics. Two rivals, Louis Roy and Edward Edwards fought over the right to publish the newspaper over the course of two years. The Oratory is the largest church in Canada, with the second largest copper dome in the world, after Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome.[188]. The articles were meant to promote discussion, and it focused on literature and philosophy, as well as various anecdotal articles, poems and letters. 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. )[63], Montreal was the official residence of the Luxembourg royal family in exile during World War II.[65]. [citation needed], Montreal is in the southwest of the province of Quebec. Find historical newspapers from Montreal Gazette. [6] The newspaper was then the property of James Brown for fourteen years. Michael Sletcher, "Montréal", in James Ciment, ed., This page was last edited on 24 October 2020, at 03:37. "[187] The city has four Roman Catholic basilicas: Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral, the aforementioned Notre-Dame Basilica, St Patrick's Basilica, and Saint Joseph's Oratory. In 1996, the Southam papers were bought by Conrad Black's Hollinger Inc. Then in August 2000, Hollinger sold the Southam newspapers, including The Gazette, to Canwest Global Communications Corp., controlled by the Winnipeg-based Asper family.

The professional hockey team, the Montreal Canadiens, is one of the Original Six teams of the National Hockey League (NHL), and has won an NHL-record 24 Stanley Cup championships.

CH | Montreal was the capital of the Province of Canada from 1844 to 1849, but lost its status when a Tory mob burnt down the Parliament building to protest the passage of the Rebellion Losses Bill. A majority of the drinking water was still coming from the city's harbour, which was busy and heavily trafficked, leading to the deterioration of the water within. For many years, The Gazette was caught in a three-way fight for the English newspaper audience in Montreal with the tabloid Montreal Herald and the broadsheet Montreal Star. Web. STM bus routes serve 1,347,900 passengers on an average weekday in 2010. The Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, an institutional investor managing assets totalling $248 billion CAD, has its main business office in Montreal. In 1901 the Mount Royal Cemetery Company established the first crematorium in Canada. In the spring of 1651, the Iroquois attacks became so frequent and so violent that Ville-Marie thought its end had come. [106] It was converted to fibre optic light in 1992. [146][147] The city is also home to many recognized cultural, film and music festivals (Just For Laughs, Just For Laughs Gags, Montreal International Jazz Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, and others), which contribute significantly to its economy. The Montreal Gazette, formerly titled The Gazette, is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of the 20th century. Three other daily English-language newspapers shuttered at various times during the second half of the 20th century. Shell decided to close the refining centre in 2010, throwing hundreds out of work and causing an increased dependence on foreign refineries for eastern Canada. The Montreal Daily News adopted a tabloid format and introduced a Sunday edition, forcing The Gazette to respond. 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.

Saskatoon StarPhoenix | [217] The STM won the award of Outstanding Public Transit System in North America by the APTA in 2010.