Montreal, Quebec

 

Montreal is the second-largest city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec The most spoken language at home in the city is French by 56.9% of the population.

Montreal is the second largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris. 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.

In 2010, Montreal was named a hub city, ranked 34th globally out of 289 cities for innovation across multiple sectors of the urban economy, in the Innovation Cities Index by 2thinknow. 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.

 

Montreal is located in the southwest of the province of Quebec. The city proper covers most of the Island of Montreal at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers.

 

MOUNT ROYAL:-

                             Mount Royal is a mountain in the city of Montreal, immediately north 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, Moans Regions, to the Montenegrin chain.

MOUNT ROYAL PARK:-

                                The mountain is the site of Mount Royal Park, one of Montreal's largest green spaces. The park, most of which is wooded, was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed New York's Central Park, and was inaugurated in 1876.

The park contains two belvederes, the more prominent of which is the Kondiaronk Belvedere, a semicircular plaza with a chalet, overlooking downtown Montreal.

 

THE OTTAWA RIVER:-

                                The Ottawa River is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. For most of its length, it now defines the border between these two provinces.

 

SPORTS:-

               The most popular sport in Montreal is "Ice Hokey". The city's professional hockey teams, the Montreal Canadiens, are one of the Original Six teams of the National Hockey League (NHL), and boast NHL-record 24 Stanley Cup championships.

The New York Yankees of Major League Baseball are the only team in North American sports to have more championship titles, with 27 World Series titles.