Hotels in Montreal

Hotels in Montreal

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Montreal, or Montréal is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-largest city in Canada. Montreal was the largest city in Canada up until the 1970s, when it was eclipsed in size by Toronto. Originally called Ville-Marie ('City of Mary'), some historians think the city takes its present name from Mount Royal, the three-headed hill at the heart of the city, whose name was also initially given to the island on which the city is located, or Mont Réal as it was spelled in Middle French.

Montreal is located in the southwest of the province of Quebec, approximately 275 kilometres southwest of Quebec City, the provincial capital, and 167 kilometres east of Ottawa, the federal capital. It also lies 502 kilometres northeast of Toronto, 407 kilometres northwest of Boston and 530 kilometres directly north of New York City.

The city is located on the central and eastern portions of the Island of Montreal at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. The port of Montreal lies at one end of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, which is the river gateway that stretches from the Great Lakes into the Atlantic Ocean. Montreal is defined by its location in between the St. Lawrence river on its south, and by the Rivière des Prairies on its north. The city is named after the most prominent geographical feature on the island, a three-head hill called Mount Royal.

Montreal is at the centre of the Montreal Metropolitan Community, and is bordered by the city of Laval to the north, Longueuil, St. Lambert, Brossard, and other municipalities to the south, Repentigny to the east and the West Island municipalities to the west. The anglophone enclaves of Westmount, Montreal West, Hampstead, Côte Saint-Luc, the Town of Mount Royal and the francophone enclave Montreal East are all entirely surrounded by the city of Montreal.

For over a century and a half, Montreal was the industrial and financial centre of Canada. The variety of buildings included factories, elevators, warehouses, mills, and refineries which today provide a legacy of historic and architectural interest, especially in the downtown area and the Old Port area.

Today there are also many historical buildings in Old Montreal still in their original form: Notre-Dame de Montréal Basilica, Bonsecours Market, and the impressive 19th-century headquarters of all major Canadian banks on St. James Street (French: Rue Saint Jacques). Saint Joseph's Oratory, completed in 1934, Ernest Cormier's Art Deco Université de Montréal main building, the landmark Place Ville Marie office tower, the controversial Olympic Stadium and surrounding structures, are but a few notable examples of 20th century architecture.

Ahuntsic-Cartierville

Ahuntsic, Nouveau-Bordeaux, Cartierville, Île de la Visitation, Saint-Sulpice, Sault-au-Récollet

Anjou

Anjou-Centre, Anjou-Est, Anjou-Ouest

Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

Côte-des-Neiges, Darlington, Loyola, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Snowdon

Lachine

Lachine Canal, Ville Saint-Pierre, Fort-Rolland, J.-Émery-Provost

LaSalle

Cecil-P.-Newman, Sault-Saint-Louis

Le Plateau-Mont-Royal

The Plateau

Montreal's trendy and colourful Plateau Mont Royal neighbourhood is located on the twin North-South axes of Saint Laurent Boulevard and Saint Denis Street, and East-West axes of Mount Royal Avenue and Sherbrooke Street. The granite-paved, pedestrian-only Prince Arthur Street is also located in this neighbourhood. In the summer, nightlife often seems as active as in the day in this area.

The Plateau boasts the highest population density of all Montreal and the greatest number of creative people in Canada, according to Statistics Canada. The same source also states that it is the urban place where the most people travel mainly by foot, bicycle or public transport. The Plateau Mont-Royal has been dubbed the "coolest neighbourhood in North America" by Wallpaper magazine[citation needed]. The exterior staircase is a distinctive feature of the city's architecture.

Mile End

Mile End, Montreal

The tiny "Mile End" district, officially part of the Plateau borough but generally considered distinct, is home to many Montreal artists and filmmakers. The city's two famous bagel emporia, the Fairmount[2] and St-Viateur[3] bakeries, are located on the streets of the same names. Fairmount Street is also home to Wilensky's (right), immortalized in the Mordecai Richler novel and film of the same name The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Saint-Viateur is the site of several cafés of note. The area has become noticeably more cash-rich in recent years, due in part to the presence of the Ubisoft studios in the district, on Saint Laurent Boulevard. As well, as of late it has been the home of many art galleries, designers, and boutiques. Mile End is also where William Shatner spent some time growing up in addition to Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.

Little Portugal

Little Portugal, Montreal

Montreal has a modest Portuguese population, some of which is concentrated in Little Portugal, which is at the corner of Saint Lawrence Boulevard and Rachel street. Portuguese businesses can be found along several blocks of Saint-Lawrence between Pine and Marie-Anne. The Portuguese area has largely absorbed what used to be the traditional Jewish neighbourhood.

Other neighbourhoods

DeLorimier, Jeanne-Mance, Mile End, McGill Ghetto

Le Sud-Ouest

Griffintown and Goose Village
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Griffintown
See also: Goose Village, Montreal

District directly southwest of Downtown Montreal and just west of Old Port, today it's considered part of the larger Pointe-Saint-Charles neighbourhood in the Le Sud-Ouest district of the city. In the 19th Century Griffintown and adjacent Goose Village were home to thousands of Irish immigrants (mostly of the Catholic faith), many of whom worked for the railway and on massive local projects such as the Victoria Bridge, or the Northern Telecom building. Griffintown was the initial stop-off point for many Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century.

It became a multi-ethnic neighbourhood by the turn of the twentieth century, consisting of French, Anglo-Protestants (and later, Italians and others), but majority Irish Catholics. The Irish community claims the neighbourhood as a lieu du memoire because of its significance as one of the original sites of Irish immigration in North America.

Many of the immigrants who arrived on "fever ships" or "coffin ships" during the Irish Catholic diaspora resulting from potato famine and British colonialism, suffered from typhoid or other diseases and were quarantined in hastily constructed wooden "fever sheds" at Grosse-Ile outside Quebec City and in Griffintown and Goose Village. Roughly six thousand Irish immigrants died in fever sheds at nearby Windmill Point. They are commemorated by a black rock near the Victoria Bridge.

The Irish Catholics in Montreal mostly evaded the level of conflict with Protestants occurring elsewhere because of the Catholicism of the French population. Irish Catholics joined together with the French population in revolt against British colonialism in the Patriote Rebellions. Nevertheless, life in Griffintown was violent, dirty (massive pollution which remains in the soil) and poverty-laden.

A tight-knit culture developed amongst the Irish Catholics, mostly through social participation at St. Ann's Church and through the perpetuation of Irish Catholic traditions, such as plays, dancing, songs, etc. This culture became pervasive and was adopted either wittingly or unwittingly by other Catholic immigrant groups and even by some of the French who lived in the area.

Women were very active in church life and pushed their husbands towards social functions run by the Church to keep them away from the saloons.

Carousing sailors from the nearby Port of Montreal were another flash point for violence. Workers organized against corrupt bosses in the two major Lachine Canal strikes and a real class conscious ethos developed partly around local tavern culture (see Joe Beef's Tavern).

One of the developments that ensued was the opening up of hockey to working class participation through the Montreal Shamrock Hockey Club. Hockey had been a game played by elites and later the middle classes as an amateur, exclusive club sport. The profitability of the sport soon opened the eyes of its middle class purveyors and ultimately led to its professionalization.

The post-war collapse of heavy industry and closure of the Lachine Canal created poor economic conditions, and since then it has been a low-income neighbourhood that is now undergoing some gentrification and renewal. However, in order to purchase property today, you must first pay to clean up the soil, an expensive environmental regulation which has so far limited the renewal of the neighborhood to large development projects along its periphery, mostly condos.

Pointe-Saint-Charles

An area located in the South-West borough, south of downtown between the Lachine Canal and the St. Lawrence River. Often referred to as 'The Point', it was originally a mainly English-speaking Irish working-class neighbourhood developed around factories and other Victorian-era industry. Changes in economic fortune in the mid-20th Century led Point St. Charles into a decline that has only recently begun to change as a wave of gentrification has given the area new life. The neighbourhood has a documented reputation as one of the poorest in Montreal, and one of the roughest in Canada. Its inhabitants have been the subject of several National Film Board of Canada documentaries. Playwright David Fennario hails from the district.

Other neighbourhoods

Saint-Henri, Little Burgundy, Ville-Saint-Paul, Ville-Émard

L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève

Denis-Benjamin-Viger, Jacques-Bizard, Pierre-Foretier, Sainte-Geneviève

Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Mercier-Ouest, Tétreaultville (Mercier-Est)

Montréal-Nord

Marie-Clarac, Ovide-Clermont

Outremont

Claude-Ryan, Jeanne-Sauvé, Joseph-Beaubien, Robert-Bourassa

Pierrefonds-Roxboro

Pierrefonds-Roxboro-Est, Pierrefonds-Roxboro-Ouest

Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles

La Pointe-aux-Prairies, Pointe-aux-Trembles, Rivière-des-Prairies

Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie

Little Italy

Little Italy, Montreal

Montreal has the second largest Italian population in Canada after Toronto. There are around 250,000 Montrealers of Italian ancestry living within its Metropolitan Area. Montreal's Little Italy, located on Saint Lawrence Boulevard between Jean-Talon and St. Zotique, is home to Montreal's original Italian Canadian community. Although many Italians in Montreal have since moved to other parts of town, Montreal's Little Italy has not lost its heritage, as it is home to a large collection of Italian restaurants, bars, and shops.

Other neighbourhoods

Étienne-Desmarteaux, Marie-Victorin, Saint-Édouard, Vieux-Rosemont

Saint-Laurent

Bois-Franc, Côte-de-Liesse, Normand-McLaren

Saint-Léonard

Città Italiana

There is also a very prominent Italian Canadian community in the Montreal borough of Saint Leonard, nicknamed Città Italiana. This borough is located further east on Jean-Talon Boulevard. Città Italiana can be considered Montreal's second Little Italy. Many Italian cultural centres, such as the The Leonardo Da Vinci Centre, are located in Saint Leonard. Its services are offered in English, French and Italian. This cultural building contains theaters, gyms, bocce playing areas, and a cafe.

Via Italia

Via Italia, Montreal

Verdun

Champlain — L'Île-des-Soeurs, Desmarchais-Crawford

Ville-Marie

Downtown Montreal

Downtown Montreal lies at the foot of Mount Royal, most of which is a major urban park, and extends toward the St Lawrence River. It is located entirely within the Ville Marie borough. The Downtown area contains dozens of notable skyscrapers — which bylaws restrict to the height of Mount Royal — including the aforementioned 1000 de La Gauchetière and 1250 René-Lévesque. The Tour de la Bourse (Stock Exchange Tower) is also another significant building in Montreal, and is home to the Montreal Exchange, which trades in derivatives such as futures contracts and options. The Montreal Exchange was the first stock exchange in Canada. In 1999 all stock trades were transferred to Toronto in exchange for exclusivity in derivatives trading.

Place Ville-Marie, an I. M. Pei-designed cruciform office tower built in 1962, sits atop an underground shopping mall that forms the nexus of Montreal's underground city, the world's largest, with indoor access to over 1,600 shops, restaurants, offices, businesses, museums and universities, as well as metro stations, train stations, bus terminals, and tunnels extending all over downtown. The central axis for downtown is Saint Catherine Street, Canada's busiest commercial artery. Other major streets include Sherbrooke, René Lévesque, Peel, de la Montagne, de Maisonneuve and Crescent. The Montreal Skyline panorama includes two islands, Île Ste. Hélène and Île Notre-Dame. The man-made Notre Dame island hosts the Canadian Grand Prix Formula One auto race, as well as NASCAR racing. La Ronde, the sole amusement park in the Montreal area, is located on Île Ste. Hélène and is home to the Montreal Fireworks Festival in the summer.

Old Montreal

Just southeast of downtown is Old Montreal (Vieux-Montréal), an historic area with such attractions as the Old Port, Place Jacques-Cartier, City Hall, the Marché Bonsecours, Place d'Armes, Pointe-à-Callière Museum, and the Notre-Dame Basilica. Architecture and cobbled streets in Old Montreal have been maintained or restored to keep the look of the city in its earliest days as a settlement, and horse-drawn calèches help maintain that image. 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.

Chinatown

Montreal has a small but active Chinatown just south of downtown, featuring many Chinese shops and restaurants, as well as a number of Vietnamese establishments. Several of these restaurants offer dim sum from as early as 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and can be quite crowded, especially on Sundays. The principal axis of Chinatown are Saint Laurent Boulevard and La Gauchetière Street.

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