Holiday Destination: Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second largest city in Canada and the fifteenth largest in North America. Originally called Ville Marie, or City of Mary the city takes its present name from Mount Royal, the triple peaked hill located in the heart of the city, or Mont Réal as it was spelled in Middle French. The city is located on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Ile Bizard. Montreal is consistently rated as one of the world's most livable cities, was called Canada's Cultural Capital by Monocle Magazine and recently was named a UNESCO City of Design. Though historically the commercial capital of Canada, it was surpassed in population, as well as economic strength, by Toronto after 1976. Today it continues as an important center of commerce, aerospace, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, culture, tourism, film and world affairs. Montreal was the next Canadian city in the annual index behind nexus city Toronto in 12th place and ahead of fellow hub cities Calgary, Quebec City, Vancouver and Edmonton.

Climate

Summer 26.6 °C (79.9 °F), Winter (−12.4)°C (9.7 °F)

Tourist Season

June to September is the best for tourism.

Accommodation

Hotels and Apartments.

General Information Of Montreal

• Land Area: 140.98 sq mi (365.13 km2)
• Population: 16 Lakh.
• Capital City: Quebec.
• Language: English and French.

Tourist Attraction in or Near by Montreal

Mount Royal

Mount Royal is a mountain in the city of Montreal, immediately west of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the city to which it gave its name. The mountain is part of the Monteregian Hills situated between the Laurentians and the Appalachians. It gave its Latin name, Mons Regius, to the Monteregian chain. The mountain consists of three peaks Colline de la Croix at 233 m, Colline d'Outremont or Mount Murray, in the borough of Outremont at 211 m, and Westmount at 201 m elevation above mean sea level. At this height, it might be otherwise considered a hill, but it has always been called a mountain, given there are no actual mountains in the Montéregie region.

Notre Dame Basilica

Notre Dame Basilica is a basilica in the historic district of Old Montreal, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The church is located at 110 Notre Dame Street West, at the corner of Saint Sulpice Street. It is located next to the Saint Sulpice Seminary and faces the Place d'Armes square. The church's Gothic Revival architecture is among the most dramatic in the world its interior is grand and colourful, its ceiling is coloured deep blue and decorated with golden stars, and the rest of the sanctuary is a polychrome of blues, azures, reds, purples, silver, and gold. It is filled with hundreds of intricate wooden carvings and several religious statues. Unusual for a church, the stained glass windows along the walls of the sanctuary do not depict biblical scenes, but rather scenes from the religious history of Montreal.

Old Montreal

Old Montreal is the oldest area in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, dating back to New France. Located in the borough of Ville Marie, the area is bordered on the west by McGill St., on the north by Ruelle des Fortifications, on the east by Rue Saint Andre and on the south by the Saint Lawrence River. Following recent amendments, the district has been expanded slightly to include the rue des Soeurs Grises in the west, Saint Antoine St. in the north and Saint Hubert Street in the east. It also includes the Old Port of Montreal. Most of Old Montreal was declared an historic district in 1964 by the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Quebec.

Olympic Park

An Olympic Park is a sports campus for hosting the Olympic Games. Typically it contains the Olympic Stadium and the International Broadcast Centre. It may also contain the Olympic Village or some of the other sports venues, such as the aquatics complex in the case of the summer games, or the main ice hockey rink for the winter games. The Olympic Park is part of the legacy which provides benefit to the host city after the games have ended. As such it may subsequently include an urban park and a museum or similar commemoration of the games that were hosted there. The 1908 Olympic organising committee specified As far as possible all the competitions, including swimming, archery, fencing, wrestling, &c., will be held on the same site in which the amphitheatre for the track athletics and cycling will be erected. Venues of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will be split among four "clusters" rather than concentrated in a single Park.

Square Saint-Louis

Saint-Louis Square is an urban square in Montreal's Plateau Mont Royal. The square is located on the site of the city's former reservoir, which was functional until 1852, and replaced by the McTavish reservoir, after the Great Fire of 1852. The square was created in 1876, and named for two businessmen, brothers Emmanuel and Jean Baptiste Saint-Louis. The Project for Public Spaces has called the square the closest thing to a European neighborhood square you'll find this side of the Atlantic.

Pointe A Cailliere Museum

Pointe a Calliere Museum is the Montreal museum of archaeology and history located in Old Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1992 as part of celebrations to mark Montreal's 350th birthday. Set atop the city's birthplace, the Museum shows collections of artefacts from the First Nations of the Montreal region that illustrate how various cultures coexisted and interacted, and how the French and British regimes influenced the history of this territory over the years. Pointe a Callière has been recognized as a national historic site since 1998. Since it opened, it has welcomed more than 350,000 visitors a year. Pointe a Calliere has been honoured with more than fifty national and international awards.

Saint Joseph's Oratory

Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and national shrine on the west slope of Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The St.Joseph Oratory is a very popular Catholic pilgrimage site devoted to St. Joseph. It is located on the north western side of Mount Royal. It has a small church chapel at it's lowest floor, a museum at an higher floor and an impressive contemporary church at it's top floor that is topped by a large, recognizable from miles away, dome.

Notre Dame de Bon Secours Chape

The Notre Dame de Bon Secours Chapel is a church in the district of Old Montreal in Montreal, Quebec. One of the oldest churches in Montreal, it was built in 1771 over the ruins of an earlier chapel. St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, the first teacher in the colony of Ville Marie and the founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame, rallied the colonists to build a chapel in 1655. In 1673, returning from France, Bourgeoys brought a wooden image of Our Lady of Good Help the stone church was completed in 1678. It burned in 1754, the reliquary and statue being rescued. After Montreal was conquered by British forces during the French and Indian War, the church was attended by Irish and Scottish troops and families, and saw fundraising to build Saint Patrick's Church, Montreal's first anglophone Catholic parish.

Montreal Biodome

The Montreal Biodome is a facility located in Montreal that allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas. The building was originally constructed for the 1976 Olympic Games as a velodrome. It hosted both track cycling and judo events. Renovations on the building began in 1989 and in 1992 the indoor nature exhibit was opened. The Montreal Biodome is one of four facilities operated by the Montreal Nature Museum, which include the Montreal Insectarium, Montreal Botanical Garden, and Montreal Planetarium. It is an accredited member of both the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

Accessibility

Bus Terminal in or Near by

Notre-Dame Place Jacques-Cartier

Rue Notre Dame E Street
Montreal, QC, Canada

Saint Antoine Gosford

Rue Saint Antoine Street
Montreal, QC, Canada

Saint Denis Saint Antoine

Rue Saint-Denis Street
Montreal, QC, Canada

Airports in or Near by

Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport: For international flights.

St. Hubert Airport: For domestic flights.

Railway Stations

Budget Rent A Car Cn Train Station, Dtn

895 Rue de la Gauchetiere Ouest
Montreal, QC, Canada