The great city of Montréal or Ville de Montréal is the biggest city in all Québec, and it is also a city that like New York City and Singapore as well as Venice and Hong Kong this is a city that is located on an island or a setting of islands.
The city is located on the island of Île de Montréal when the city is also located on Île Jesus and Île Perrot as well as Île de Sainte Hélène and Île Bizard, while next to Île de Montréal is the island of Île de Laval but it and the city that is on it are not part of Ville de Montréal as a city as it is a separate city and this whole group of islands is that of the Hochelaga Archipelago or l’Archipel d’Hochelaga.
Le rivière des Prairies is what flows between the two islands from south to north, and le rivière des Milies is what separates Île de Laval from the bank of all that is le fleuve de Saint Laurent that is to the northwest when the lake that is called Lac de Saint Louis is what is located between Île de Montréal and that which is to the southern bank of le fleuve de Saint Laurent. The China Rapids or les Rapides Chinois are just up the river on the way to the 1000 Islands, of which they were named that way by Jacques Cartier who thought that he had discovered a real passageway to China and Japan.
The city is located on the island of Île de Montréal when the city is also located on Île Jesus and Île Perrot as well as Île de Sainte Hélène and Île Bizard, while next to Île de Montréal is the island of Île de Laval but it and the city that is on it are not part of Ville de Montréal as a city as it is a separate city and this whole group of islands is that of the Hochelaga Archipelago or l’Archipel d’Hochelaga.
Le rivière des Prairies is what flows between the two islands from south to north, and le rivière des Milies is what separates Île de Laval from the bank of all that is le fleuve de Saint Laurent that is to the northwest when the lake that is called Lac de Saint Louis is what is located between Île de Montréal and that which is to the southern bank of le fleuve de Saint Laurent. The China Rapids or les Rapides Chinois are just up the river on the way to the 1000 Islands, of which they were named that way by Jacques Cartier who thought that he had discovered a real passageway to China and Japan.
Map of the Montréal Area and a Tourist Poster Map of the city
The island of Île de Montréal is home to a hill which is called Mont Royal with this being forested and one of the most beloved green spots in the world as it is Ville de Montréal’s version of Central Park, of which the whole cities main sections can be seen from the slopes of the hill. At the foot of the hill is the War Memorial to the War Dead of The War to end All Wars, and it is an Angel standing on a tall pedestal made of elegant designs.
Areal view of Mount Royal by 2010microsoft corporation
The beauty of Mount Royal and the War Memorial
The island was home to a settlement called Ville Marie which was developed by a man named Paul de Chomedey, Le Sieur de Maisonneuve, of which he was leader of an organization called La Société de Notre Dame or the Society of Notre Dame with it also including the name of Mont Royal, and that is why the mountain was named that way as well as the island.
Paul de Chomedey, Le Sieur de Maisonneuve
The city that eventually was born was to become the most important port on le fleuve Saint Laurent or the Saint Laurence River, and it was well designed in a grid fashion with what was developed as such now being Vieux Montréal.
Ville de Montréal as it started
The city was sketched in the 19th century by a great artist named Robert Achmuty Sproule who lived from 1799 to 1846 and was a native of Athlone Ireland as well as a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin, of which in 1820 he journeyed to a city that was already long since British controlled although the then Colony of Lower Canada was still French speaking and Roman Catholic.
Achmuty Sproule prints of the city with one showing Notre Dame and another showing Le Champs de Mars
Image of the Nelson Column {courtesy of the McCord Museum} with Notre Dame way back
Image of the city from Across the river with Notre Dame as the tallest building
The original city was and still is home to the church of Notre Dame de Bon Secours or Our Lady of Good Help and it was where all Sailors prayed before leaving the harbor, which has a beautiful setting on top of a tower of Octagon shape is that of the statue of Notre Dame de Bon Secours who in English is commonly called Our Lady of the Harbour. This faces the river and its facade facing away from the river is one that is of Gothic settings, and the Church was mentioned in Suzanne which is a Poem by Leonard Cohen as well as the original city as Cohen did mention various places near the river and next to the Church.
The interior is elaborate and with Stain Glass Windows as well as a small wooden Ship dangling above the Altar with that honouring the Church in it being still a Sailors Church, and entombed at the altar in a glass case is the embalmed body of Sister Marguerite Bourgeois who is Canada’s first Female Saint.
The interior is elaborate and with Stain Glass Windows as well as a small wooden Ship dangling above the Altar with that honouring the Church in it being still a Sailors Church, and entombed at the altar in a glass case is the embalmed body of Sister Marguerite Bourgeois who is Canada’s first Female Saint.
Images of Notre Dame de Bonsecours
The “main street” of the old city is Place Jacques Cartier which is named after the explorer who discovered the Saint Laurent as a river, of which this is not only a street but an elongated square with the Nelson Column being located at the top of that which is the hill where the street runs. An elegant Park like setting is in the middle of the street, with the buildings at either side of the street being of brick and stone as well as Edwardian and Victorian settings of which Achmuty Sproule drafted a setting of sketches that were of the monument when it was first built.
Place Jacques Cartier
The Town Hall or Hôtel de Ville is a structure that is of a design that is from the France of Louis Napoléon, with the elegant structure being one that for a long time was the tallest government building in the city of which this is next to the Nelson Column and it faces Château Ramezay as well as Place Jacques Cartier. Hôtel de Ville was built in the time from 1872 to 1878, but in 1922 the building was gutted by fire and totally rebuilt.
Hôtel de Ville
Ville de Montreal is governed by a City Council which is elected by the voters and it is made out of 73 members who include the Mayor of the city, of which the Council legislates all policies that are to be followed in Ville de Montréal while the Executive Committee is the leading body that deals with all bureaucratic guidance. The City is divided into Boroughs as it is with New York City and Metro London, and there are 19 in all of which all election results are counted from those registered voters. Each one of those 19 Boroughs and Ville de Montréal has separate Political Parties from the rest of the Province. Union Montréal was the most important but in 2012 it broke apart, and this was after its leader Gerald Tremblay was forced to resign, and that was over a corruption scandal that dealt with Organized Crime and a sewage production contract.
The City Council
The Council has jurisdiction over all public security agreements with other governments and all environmental and urban planning, of which it also holds power on all issues that deal with financial budget issues and it is required to supervise certain decisions made by the Councils in each Borough which legislate the needs of an individual Borough. The Presidents of each Council that governs a Borough are also in the Council.
Ville de Montréal is part of the larger Communauté Métropolitaine de Montréal which is in charge of all planning and coordinating as well as financing economic development, when it is also responsible for all public transportation and garbage collection as well as waste management. The President of the CMM as La Communauté Métropolitaine de Montréal, is in its initials is the same person who is Mayor of Ville de Montréal.
The CMM is served by a Police Service which is responsible for all Law and Order while a Department of Fire Fighters serves this entire Metropolitan area, and both deal with the Mayor as it is with all Metro London and all New York City.
Ville de Montréal is part of the larger Communauté Métropolitaine de Montréal which is in charge of all planning and coordinating as well as financing economic development, when it is also responsible for all public transportation and garbage collection as well as waste management. The President of the CMM as La Communauté Métropolitaine de Montréal, is in its initials is the same person who is Mayor of Ville de Montréal.
The CMM is served by a Police Service which is responsible for all Law and Order while a Department of Fire Fighters serves this entire Metropolitan area, and both deal with the Mayor as it is with all Metro London and all New York City.
Château Ramezay is a one story and stone made building that faces Hôtel de Ville and it was the home of the island’s Governor long ago, of which today this building is a museum and it has a circular setting with a triangular roof which was a separate part of the building as a Pantry. A beautiful garden is behind the building, when the front wall has a beautiful Arch setting of Wrot Iron leading out into the street in front with a garden in front which has the original half round shaped Carriage entrance path which is made of dirt leading up to the front door.
Château Ramezay
Old photos of the building {including one by allnumis.com}
The original building that was of government is what is now Marche Bon Secours or Market of Good Help and it has a tall Dome on top of its center, of which this is next to the Church of Notre Dame de Bon Secours and it was home to the Parliament of the United Province of Canada. Sadly that ended when this great building was gutted by fire in what were the Riots of 1849, which was all when an unwelcomed Law was passed and like the Church this great building looks over those waves of the Saint Laurent. The building is designed of neo Classical settings, and it was styled after the Custom House in Dublin The Republic of Ireland or Érie {Erin.} It was in this great building that Sir Louis-Hippolyte Ménard dit La Fontaine, 1st Baronet spoke in that Legislative Council of The United Province of Canada, and it was also there that his office was as he was Premier of East Canada.
The Flag of the city is of a Red Cross that faces a White field, with the Red and White colours honours the Christian origins of those who with Maisonneuve founded the city, of which a Fleur des Lils honors those French origins of the city when a Shamrock honours those Irish who settled in the city and built most of it in the 19th and 20th centuries. A Red Rose honours those Anglos and Welsh who settled in the city while as for a Thistle it honours the Scotts who settled in the city, and in the middle of the Cross is a Golden White Maple honoring the Mohawk of the area. The Coat of Arms is a Shield that has the whole Flag in it and it is surrounded by Green Maple Leafs with a twisted bar being on top that has a Beaver on all fours on top of a log that is on top of it, when the Scroll at the bottom states CONCORDIA SALUS.
The Irish brought many traditions to the city as well as a huge growth of the Catholic Church in the city with them being those who built some of the cities greatest buildings including Marche Bon Secours, of which the old Palais de Justice was built by them and today it is a building that serves the city Government.
The Old Palace of Justice
The most impressive building built by the Irish in Ville de Montréal is the Basilica of Notre Dame, which was built with influences from the mighty Cathedral of Paris but with other settings that would make this building not exact. The dual Bell Towers are of similar design of those of Paris’s mighty structure, but in the beginning they were small in which the structure was built facing the original core of the city which is la Place d’Armes and they both have Clocks.
The old structure of what was to be this Parish was of earlier Gothic design and with a single Bell Tower with that one being demolished and the new one being dedicated, of which the Basilica was meant to be as the then main Church for all Catholics in the areas of the Saint Laurent up river from Ville de Quebec. However, this was never to be home to a Bishop although an Archdiocese was designed for Montréal in 1836 and that was to have its centre at Saint Jacques Cathedral in which the structure was unfortunately never to be a Basilica until 1982 when Saint Jean Paul Deux {Saint John Paul 2nd} came to Canada.
The old structure of what was to be this Parish was of earlier Gothic design and with a single Bell Tower with that one being demolished and the new one being dedicated, of which the Basilica was meant to be as the then main Church for all Catholics in the areas of the Saint Laurent up river from Ville de Quebec. However, this was never to be home to a Bishop although an Archdiocese was designed for Montréal in 1836 and that was to have its centre at Saint Jacques Cathedral in which the structure was unfortunately never to be a Basilica until 1982 when Saint Jean Paul Deux {Saint John Paul 2nd} came to Canada.
The Basilica's facade
The interior is a vast mosaic of Gothic settings in its Altar with Statues of the Prophets being in a row of beautiful Gothic Niches, of which surrounding the Holy statue of Christ dying on the Cross are statues of Moses and Aaron as well as the Coronation of Mary all in Gothic Niches. The elaborate arch setting of the nave is Neo Gothic and the artwork on the roof is also Neo Gothic, of which the building’s interior also has a variety of Chapels when Canada’s largest Pipe Organ is in the Basilica and above the main entrance of the building. Two tiers of beautiful side balconies that are gilded are on the sides of the interior, with a huge pulpit with a spiral staircase being set dominating the interior’s left side balconies while balconies are above the main entrance beneath the Organ.
It was in this very Holy Place that some special events occured in Montréal’s history and one was when the Queen of Canadian Singers Céline Dion married the Love of Her Life René Angélil, when it was also within the Basilica that former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau had his funeral.
It was in this very Holy Place that some special events occured in Montréal’s history and one was when the Queen of Canadian Singers Céline Dion married the Love of Her Life René Angélil, when it was also within the Basilica that former Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau had his funeral.
The beauty of the interior in different colors {by cecilclontz2012 and yyzdez.com}
The Altar and the Pipe Organ
One of the Chapels {by Philip Cnitwood}
La Place d'Armes has a beautiful setting of modern buildings that begin with those of Art Deco that were built in the era from 1910 to 1935, of which the various buildings of this architecture have long been Banks and Trading Houses with the Alfred Building being the most recognizable and as for the Banque de Montréal it is of Neo Classical designs and with a dome on top of it. The elegant New York Life Building is Victorian in design and it is next door to the Alfred Building, and in the middle of the square one finds a monument to Maisonneuve
la Place d'Armes
The New York Life Building
The Champs de Mars was where the British soldiers paraded when Achmuty Sproule lived, and today it is a square with those foundations of the old walls which is overlooked by some of the most historical buildings in the city in which these include Hôtel de Ville and the old Palais de Justice.
Champs de Mars today
Le Centre d’ Histoire de Montréal is a building that is of Flemish designs and it was originally the Fire Station for the old city when it was first built in the time from 1903 to 1904, in which La Place d’Youville is where this building is located and it is also home to the Grand Trunk Building which is of Neo Classical designs.
Le Centre d’ Histoire de Montréal and The Grant Trunk Building
Many visitors to Ville de Montréal as a city and Île de Montréal as an island go to one of the Holiest Places in the Americas and that is Saint Joseph’s Oratory, of which this is a Shrine to Saint Joseph and the man who founded this great Shrine was a lay Brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross named André Bessette who conducted great miracles. He visited the sick and rubbed their bodies in which they were healed of which he died in 1937, and 1 million people passed by his Coffin when he was canonized in 2010 by Pope Benedict 16th or Benoít Seize when he was beatified in 1982 when Jean Paul Deux came.
The structure was begun in 1924 and it ended in 1967 and was highly visited by those who came for the great event of Expo 67 of which this is Canada’s largest Church, and the Dome has the reputation of it being the biggest after those of Saint Peters in The Vatican City and Notre Dame de la Paix in Yamoussoukro Côte d’Ivoire.
The architecture is Italian Renaissance and it was built on top of a hill slope that belongs to Mont Royal, and it is where Saint André de Montréal as he is now called has his heart entombed with a beautiful Staircase running up the hill to the structure in which a Statue of Saint Joseph being on top of a tall pedestal stands in front of the Staircase. The building is a true Holy Place as the walls are blessed for Miracles and it is said that Saint André is the reason why, with a small Shrine being next to the great sanctuary.
The structure was begun in 1924 and it ended in 1967 and was highly visited by those who came for the great event of Expo 67 of which this is Canada’s largest Church, and the Dome has the reputation of it being the biggest after those of Saint Peters in The Vatican City and Notre Dame de la Paix in Yamoussoukro Côte d’Ivoire.
The architecture is Italian Renaissance and it was built on top of a hill slope that belongs to Mont Royal, and it is where Saint André de Montréal as he is now called has his heart entombed with a beautiful Staircase running up the hill to the structure in which a Statue of Saint Joseph being on top of a tall pedestal stands in front of the Staircase. The building is a true Holy Place as the walls are blessed for Miracles and it is said that Saint André is the reason why, with a small Shrine being next to the great sanctuary.
Saint Joseph's Oratory
The interior and the Tomb of Saint André de Montréal
The oldest Seminary founded by the Catholic Church on Île de Montréal is next to the Basilica of Notre Dame and it is named after la Compagnie des Pétres de Saint Suplice, with the building being of Stone and with a huge Clock on its façade and it is named le Vieux Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice. This structure is next to Notre Dame de Montréal, and is adjacent to the Basilica as a religious complex that is alongside what is called Rue de Notre Dame.
le Vieux Séminaire de Saint-Sulpice
In so many sections of the city one sees the typical Cafés that one sees in Paris with various streets of the old city or Vieux Ville being of cobblestones, and the most legendary is that of Rue Saint Paul which runs past Marche Bon Secours and Notre Dame de Bon Secours. As for Rue Bon Secours it runs to the steps of the door of Notre Dame de Bon Secours from the interior direction away from the river’s bank, in which Cafés and Restaurants are on the sides of Place Jacque Cartier with the atmosphere at night or in daylight reminding so many of Les Champs Élysées.
The Cobblestone Streets of the Old City
The old Fortress that defended the city was at the very end of the old city but in time a new one was built on Île Sainte-Hélène which was actually a setting of several Forts, and these included Fort Henry and Fort Lennox as well as the actual Fort de lÎle Sainte-Hélène. The walls of these Forts are all made of stone but they have Guard Towers that are wooden, and each Fort has a Courtyard where reconstructions of Soldier maneuvers from long ago are conducted.
The old Forts
The great amount of Bridges that connect the city with the shore of the river's banks to the south and east also allow the city to be connected to a highway that runs down to the Canadian/U.S Border which is nearby, and the greatest of these bridges is that of Pont Jacques-Cartier which was designed in influence from the Queensborough Bridge in New York City. That bridge runs over Île Sainte-Hélène, with it being one of the most photographed steel bridges in all North America alongside those of New York City and Philadelphia as well as Florida and San Francisco including San Diego.
Pont Jacques-Cartier
The old Port Clock Tower is overlooked by the Bridge, and this was a beacon for Ships going up and down the river when it was first built and it still is in function as a beacon for Ships going up and down the river.
The Bridge and the Tower with La Ronde
The city of Ville de Montréal was only a capitol briefly in the days of the Colony that was Canada and existed from 1840 to 1868, but it was blessed with it being the centre of all finances and trade as well as shipping for the whole Colony. In so many areas Ville de Montréal is a Zurich and Frankfurt am Main for all that is eastern Canada of which its might in business and the needs of international relations makes the city as the most important of its type on the Saint Laurence, let alone Canada. However, the city that is Toronto Ontario rivals Ville de Montréal in all its might and the city of Halifax Nova Scotia is just as important. That is as these cities are along the Saint Laurence Seaway as Toronto is on Lake Ontario and Halifax is on the North Atlantic at what is the end of this whole system, once ships run into the Golfe de Saint Laurent and journey passed Prince Edward Island they are docked once more at Halifax if not Saint John’s Newfoundland.
Locks belonging to the Seaway are near these islands with the Harbor and its Docks still being where huge amounts of activity occur for trade as they were back in the days of Achmuty Sproule, with Our Lady of The Harbor standing right above the Docks as well as Marche Bon Secours.
Locks belonging to the Seaway are near these islands with the Harbor and its Docks still being where huge amounts of activity occur for trade as they were back in the days of Achmuty Sproule, with Our Lady of The Harbor standing right above the Docks as well as Marche Bon Secours.
The Docks of the Old City
The economy of Ville de Montréal and those municipalities that are also in the Metropolitan area which include all of Île de Laval, includes a setting of factories and technical laboratories of which these places manufacture aerospace and electronic goods as well as textiles and apparel goods when tobacco goods and printed goods are also manufactured in these industrial places of all the Metropolitan area. Software engineering and telecommunications systems manufacturing are also huge in this Metropolitan area, besides Trade. Service Jobs in Ville de Montréal are in so many settings equal to those in New York City, such as Taxi Drivers and Bus Drivers including Street Cleaners and Sanitation Workers.
La Bourse is the great Stock Exchange in the city and it is in one of the cities greatest Skyscrapers, when Sun Life Insurance is in the city and in what was the first Skyscraper built in the city which is of it was built from 1930 to 1931 and is of Eclectic Designs.
Thanks to the Saint Lawrence Seaway the Port of Montréal is the largest inland port in the world and it annually handles 26 million tonnes of cargo, and it is a trans shipment point for grain and raw sugar as well as petroleum when as for those products made in those factories and laboratories of on Île de Montréal they are also shipped through the Port. For this reason the whole of Île de Montréal and Île de Laval as one Metropolitan area is the railroad hub of Canada, of which it is home to the headquarters of the Canadian National Railway or CN.
The headquarters of the CSA or Canadian Space Agency is located in Longueuil which is located at the southeast of Île de Montréal, while Ville de Montréal hosts the headquarters of the International Civil Action Organization. The World Anti Doping Agency and the International Air Transport Association are both based in Ville de Montréal, and the same is with the International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce as this whole Metropolitan area has a huge Gay Lesbian Transgender & Bisexual community.
Ville de Montréal has long been a centre of the international film and television industries, alongside both the cities of Toronto and Vancouver. It is the home of Alliance Films and five studios belonging to The National Film Board of Canada which won five Academy Awards for Documentaries. Telefilm Canada is also based in Ville de Montréal which is the national feature length film and television funding agency of all Canada, in which because of its amazing architecture and its broad availability of film services and crew members, this great city is a popular Filming location for Films that have stories set in Europe. The Canadian Broadcast Company or CBC is based in Ville de Montréal, just like it is in Toronto and Ottawa as well as Vancouver.
The Video Game developing industry grew in Ville de Montréal after 1997 when the first Video Game developed in Canada was introduced, and Ville de Montréal is home to many cultural and film as well as music festivals with Canada's largest Jazz Festival being the Montréal Jazz Festival. Cirque du Soleil is the great cultural enterprise that was born in this amazing city that is Ville de Montréal, and is one of the most important pop cultural exports from Canada.
La Bourse is the great Stock Exchange in the city and it is in one of the cities greatest Skyscrapers, when Sun Life Insurance is in the city and in what was the first Skyscraper built in the city which is of it was built from 1930 to 1931 and is of Eclectic Designs.
Thanks to the Saint Lawrence Seaway the Port of Montréal is the largest inland port in the world and it annually handles 26 million tonnes of cargo, and it is a trans shipment point for grain and raw sugar as well as petroleum when as for those products made in those factories and laboratories of on Île de Montréal they are also shipped through the Port. For this reason the whole of Île de Montréal and Île de Laval as one Metropolitan area is the railroad hub of Canada, of which it is home to the headquarters of the Canadian National Railway or CN.
The headquarters of the CSA or Canadian Space Agency is located in Longueuil which is located at the southeast of Île de Montréal, while Ville de Montréal hosts the headquarters of the International Civil Action Organization. The World Anti Doping Agency and the International Air Transport Association are both based in Ville de Montréal, and the same is with the International Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce as this whole Metropolitan area has a huge Gay Lesbian Transgender & Bisexual community.
Ville de Montréal has long been a centre of the international film and television industries, alongside both the cities of Toronto and Vancouver. It is the home of Alliance Films and five studios belonging to The National Film Board of Canada which won five Academy Awards for Documentaries. Telefilm Canada is also based in Ville de Montréal which is the national feature length film and television funding agency of all Canada, in which because of its amazing architecture and its broad availability of film services and crew members, this great city is a popular Filming location for Films that have stories set in Europe. The Canadian Broadcast Company or CBC is based in Ville de Montréal, just like it is in Toronto and Ottawa as well as Vancouver.
The Video Game developing industry grew in Ville de Montréal after 1997 when the first Video Game developed in Canada was introduced, and Ville de Montréal is home to many cultural and film as well as music festivals with Canada's largest Jazz Festival being the Montréal Jazz Festival. Cirque du Soleil is the great cultural enterprise that was born in this amazing city that is Ville de Montréal, and is one of the most important pop cultural exports from Canada.
La Tour de la Bourse
The Sun Life Building
CBC
The modern city is in the interior of Île de Montréal that once was forest primeval, and the core of the city today is Place Ville Marie and the adjacent Place Dorchester, in which one was originally named Dominion Square in it honouring those who drafted the Confederation that became Canada as a Dominion. It was renamed after Canada drafted its Constitution in 1982 although Québec as an overall Province refused to ratify it, until it finally did in 2005. The city on the other hand was never 100 per cent in favour of the Nationalist ideas that took Québec in the 1960s and 1970s which were even violent, of which because of that it is in this city that relations with the rest of Canada are better felt.
The Cathedral of the city was built in then Dominion Square and it is an exact replica of the Basilica of Saint Peters but minus the Square, and the interior and the Throne of Saint Peter's as well as the huge Dome of the building are all re constructed let alone that immortal facade of Saint Peter's as a structure. This is called Marie Reine du Monde or Mary Queen of the World, with the Throne being named after Saint Mary instead of Saint Peter.
The first Pope to visit Canada was Paul the 6th or Paul Six and he blessed the Cathedral when Saint John Paul the 2nd or Saint Jean Paul Deux also blessed the Cathedral besides Notre Dame Basilica, but Francis has yet to make a visit when Benedict the 16th did not make any journey.
The Cathedral of the city was built in then Dominion Square and it is an exact replica of the Basilica of Saint Peters but minus the Square, and the interior and the Throne of Saint Peter's as well as the huge Dome of the building are all re constructed let alone that immortal facade of Saint Peter's as a structure. This is called Marie Reine du Monde or Mary Queen of the World, with the Throne being named after Saint Mary instead of Saint Peter.
The first Pope to visit Canada was Paul the 6th or Paul Six and he blessed the Cathedral when Saint John Paul the 2nd or Saint Jean Paul Deux also blessed the Cathedral besides Notre Dame Basilica, but Francis has yet to make a visit when Benedict the 16th did not make any journey.
The interior and the replica of the Throne of Saint Peter
The façade of the Cathedral
Place Ville Marie is a modern square which is dominated by a Skyscraper that was built in the design of a Cross, when the Mall in front is very modern with Cafes in it that are semi underground and part of the vast Underground City and they are covered by Aluminum Roofs and with Glass Walls.
The Tower of Place Ville Marie
Place Ville Marie {The Mall}
The most important Shopping area in all Ville de Montréal is Rue Sainte Catherine and its buildings are Victorian and Edwardian in design besides modern buildings of steel and Glass, in which Theatres and Restaurants are also on the street thus making this a Broadway for Ville de Montréal.
Rue Sainte Catherine
Victoria Square is located near La Bourse and this is a Plaza that is older than Dorchester Square, of which a statue of the longest reigning Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the longest reigning King or Queen of England is in this great Plaza’s middle. However this is a statue of Victoria when she was young and not when she was old and Empress of India, in which the buildings surrounding this Plaza are modern but also of Victorian and Edwardian designs.
Victoria Square
The modern city is home to the Underground City or la Ville Souterraine which is a complex of Shopping Centres and Movie Theatres, as well as Stations that belong to the Metro that serves Ville de Montréal's Downtown and Old City as well as most of the island.
Views of the Underground City {including one by Ken Barbe}
The Metro is of Blue and White colors in its trains and its stations are some of the most modern but also artistic designed to have ever been built in the 20th century, in which the Metro was built in the period of when Ville de Montréal was in preparation for the Expo in 1967.
The McGill Station today and in 1978
The Underground City includes a Church that is the cities greatest Protestant House of Worship as it is the Anglican Cathedral of Ville de Montréal, of which this is Gothic in design and it was built from 1856 to 1859 replacing a previous structure that was destroyed by fire. A huge Tower of Glass and Steel is behind the structure and the building is named Christ Church, when the Promenades Cathédrale being the Shopping Center that lies beneath the Cathedral.
Christ Church
Promenades Cathedrale
The Expo 67 came at a crucial time when The United States was in the midst of the Vietnam War and many young and confused males were illegally crossing into Canada and begging for asylum, of which the U.S.S.R had a huge pavilion at the Expo although neither Leonid Brezhnev nor Konstantin Gromyko was present. Charles de Gaulle and Robert F Kennedy as well as Lyndon Banes Johnson were present, as well as Queen Elizabeth herself as Queen of Canada. The Supremes performed and the same was with Petula Clark and both The Grateful Dead and The Jefferson Airplane {Pot and Speed and LSD sadly included} of which De Gaulle was to cause quite a problem during the Expo. This was as he addressed Nationalist French Canadians about the need for them to stand up for their civil rights as a people, and a demand for independence from the same Crown that conquered them. Relations between Canada and France came into a dark period due to France breaking with N.A.T.O, and now De Gaulle doing this made it worse, of which relations would eventually mend between both nations as time moved on.
The event occurred on Île de Sainte Hélène and it was built in a literal City for the Future or Ville du Future, and it was dominated by a round shaped structure of Steel Girders and Glass that was during the Expo the U.S Pavilion in which sadly that Pavilion caught fire and it was closed the remainder of the event.
The Soviet pavilion was taken piece by piece home to Moscow and rebuilt at Moscow’s Exposition of Achievements and the Republic of China as well as the Republic of Korea were also at the Expo, in which Iran was too at the Expo when the Jews of the World were also represented alongside Thailand.
Canada had its own pavilion when the most legendary structure to have been built for the Expo outside of the U.S Pavilion is now The Casino, of which the only Casino in Ville de Montréal is a structure that is beyond a design for the future with that being the pavilion for all Québec as a Province and all that was Ville de Montréal at the time.
The event occurred on Île de Sainte Hélène and it was built in a literal City for the Future or Ville du Future, and it was dominated by a round shaped structure of Steel Girders and Glass that was during the Expo the U.S Pavilion in which sadly that Pavilion caught fire and it was closed the remainder of the event.
The Soviet pavilion was taken piece by piece home to Moscow and rebuilt at Moscow’s Exposition of Achievements and the Republic of China as well as the Republic of Korea were also at the Expo, in which Iran was too at the Expo when the Jews of the World were also represented alongside Thailand.
Canada had its own pavilion when the most legendary structure to have been built for the Expo outside of the U.S Pavilion is now The Casino, of which the only Casino in Ville de Montréal is a structure that is beyond a design for the future with that being the pavilion for all Québec as a Province and all that was Ville de Montréal at the time.
The U.S Pavilion when it opened and The Casino
The Soviet Pavilion and The Thai Pavilion
The Canada Pavilion and an image of the crowds at the Expo 67 as it opened by 2008 Bild@acm.org
Also located on the island one finds the Amusement Park of La Ronde, which is owned by 6 Flags but is only opened in Summer and late Spring, in which a beautiful Diamond shaped setting dominated the Amusement Park for many years until it was torn down and this all was part of Expo 67 when it was first built.
The Diamond of La Ronde long ago
The Place des Artes is a beautiful garden and setting of modern Pavilions that was built in 1963 and it was a center piece of culture for the Expo and the Olympic Games that came in 1976, as well as the Expo that also came that year.
The Place des Arts
Ville de Montréal is home to a variety of residential areas including Habitat 67 which is of square shapes on top of one another and it was built by the Expo 67, when Victorian designed buildings and Edwardian designed ones are also known as residential buildings in the city,
Habitat 67
Victorian Buildings
Edwardian Houses
The Olympic Games came in 1976 and it was there that Bruce Jenner became a hero and a young Girl named Nadia Comaneci became a heroine but for sport, as later on she became a heroine in defiance of a savage tyrant. The Games were housed in a complex that was not even completed, of which in time the Stadium was completed with elegant settings of futuristic fashion as it was designed out of a shell design, when as for the angle set tower that was where the Olympic Flame was supposed to be set it is the tallest single standing building in Ville de Montréal and an elevator runs up the side of that tower. The Stadium is now the home of The Montréal Impact MLS Team, when until 2005 it was home to the MLB Expos Team.
The Bio Dome that was built out of the pavilion where Nadia made history is one of the most visited indoor gardens in the world and it is next to the old Stadium, when as for this being all set in a garden setting what is the Botanical Gardens is next door.
In recent years a mass illegal alien invasion has occurred and many illegals have been housed in the Stadium, with now people have to come to other places such as the Bio Dome or other Stadiums that are Hockey Ice Rinks.
The Bio Dome that was built out of the pavilion where Nadia made history is one of the most visited indoor gardens in the world and it is next to the old Stadium, when as for this being all set in a garden setting what is the Botanical Gardens is next door.
In recent years a mass illegal alien invasion has occurred and many illegals have been housed in the Stadium, with now people have to come to other places such as the Bio Dome or other Stadiums that are Hockey Ice Rinks.
The Olympic Stadium and The Biodome
The city is home to two great Universities and they are Mc Gill University and La Université de Montréal, with the oldest of those two being Mc Gill University whose main building has a facade that is Palladian in design. The main entrance of this Universities campus is with a setting of columns in a monumental design and it is called The Roddrick Gates, in which this setting is also at the foot of Mount Royal and the university itself is on the mountain’s slope while the other buildings of the Campus are Gothic in designs.
The University was founded in 1821 and named after Scottish merchant who left his farm on the island in what was then farmland to the creation of that University, and he was James Mc Gill in which he was a native of Glasgow Scotland who came to Lower Canada. The University that was founded on that land is the earliest major University in Canada, that was not founded by the Catholic Church or the Anglican and Presbyterian Churches.
The University was founded in 1821 and named after Scottish merchant who left his farm on the island in what was then farmland to the creation of that University, and he was James Mc Gill in which he was a native of Glasgow Scotland who came to Lower Canada. The University that was founded on that land is the earliest major University in Canada, that was not founded by the Catholic Church or the Anglican and Presbyterian Churches.
McGill University
The building of La Université de Montréal is located on the other side of Mont Royal facing the island of Île de Laval and Les Laurentians as a mountain range, and the tower of the main building is amongst one of the city’s tallest single standing structures.
Pierre Elliot Trudeau was the greatest alumni of this University and he graduated from the University’s Law School in 1943 while he was in the then Royal Canadian Army as a part of the Training Corps, of which he became one of Ville de Montréal’s greatest Lawyers. Eventually he was to be the most important politician for the whole of Canada in the later 20th century as from 1968 to 1979 he was Canada’s Prime Minister, when from 1980 to 1984 he once again was Prime Minister.
Pierre Elliot Trudeau was the greatest alumni of this University and he graduated from the University’s Law School in 1943 while he was in the then Royal Canadian Army as a part of the Training Corps, of which he became one of Ville de Montréal’s greatest Lawyers. Eventually he was to be the most important politician for the whole of Canada in the later 20th century as from 1968 to 1979 he was Canada’s Prime Minister, when from 1980 to 1984 he once again was Prime Minister.
The University of Montréal
The people of the island of Île de Montréal are those mentioned in the Flag of Ville de Montréal but there are others who have journeyed over the years, making the city as diverse as New York City and Toronto as well as Vancouver.
These are people such as Chinese and Japanese as well as Vietnamese and peoples from the Indian Sub Continent and Lebanese including none Lebanese Arabs and Persians, of which many Italians and Greeks as well as ethnic Russians and Romanians also live on the island, and it is to mention that one of the wealthiest Jewish communities in North America lives on the island. People from España live on the island, with the same being with people México and Cuba as well as Argentina including those South American nations of Venezuela and Colombia as well as Chile. As for Brazilians and actual Portuguese from Portugal and as Álgraves they also live on the island, alongside Jamaicans and Haitians including people from El Salvador and Costa Rica.
The majority of those on the island are now classified as Canadiens {Masculine} or Canadiennes {Feminine} in French, with these people being those peoples mentioned in the Flag but this however is in combination with the First Nations of Le Fleuve Saint Laurent as it runs as the Mohawk and Algonquin did intermarry with Frenchmen.
Most Frenchmen who came were from those lands of Brittany and Normandy when others were from the Paris Basin and La Aquitaine, in which many words used in the French that is spoken in Canada are of Breton or Norman origins while others were designed from the First Nations. Québec as a name is of the Algonquin People who were the majority of those other peoples of the river who were not Mohawk, in which they and the Mohawk were enemies.
The official language of Québec as a Province is the French language, and all over the city one sees signs and billboards in the French language, even though English is the second most spoken language on the island and in many areas the population is actually bilingual in comparison to other parts of Québec as a Province.
Other languages that are spoken are those of Italian and Russian including Romanian and both Mandarin and Cantonese as well as Vietnamese, of which when dealing with those languages of Hindi and Marathi as well as Bengali and Urdu they are also spoken alongside Arabic and Farsi. The various forms of Castillano or La Lengua Española en las Americas as it is also called are too spoken, and the same is with those forms of Portuguese from either Portugal or Brazil when Kréyol is too spoken because of the Haitians.
When the Province of Québec wanted to succeed in 1976 and 1980 as well as 1992, the one place that was in their way was Île de Montréal and all that is Ville de Montréal as a city, in which the many ethnic groups in the city and its neighbourhoods refused to allow such Nationalist actions to occur.
These are people such as Chinese and Japanese as well as Vietnamese and peoples from the Indian Sub Continent and Lebanese including none Lebanese Arabs and Persians, of which many Italians and Greeks as well as ethnic Russians and Romanians also live on the island, and it is to mention that one of the wealthiest Jewish communities in North America lives on the island. People from España live on the island, with the same being with people México and Cuba as well as Argentina including those South American nations of Venezuela and Colombia as well as Chile. As for Brazilians and actual Portuguese from Portugal and as Álgraves they also live on the island, alongside Jamaicans and Haitians including people from El Salvador and Costa Rica.
The majority of those on the island are now classified as Canadiens {Masculine} or Canadiennes {Feminine} in French, with these people being those peoples mentioned in the Flag but this however is in combination with the First Nations of Le Fleuve Saint Laurent as it runs as the Mohawk and Algonquin did intermarry with Frenchmen.
Most Frenchmen who came were from those lands of Brittany and Normandy when others were from the Paris Basin and La Aquitaine, in which many words used in the French that is spoken in Canada are of Breton or Norman origins while others were designed from the First Nations. Québec as a name is of the Algonquin People who were the majority of those other peoples of the river who were not Mohawk, in which they and the Mohawk were enemies.
The official language of Québec as a Province is the French language, and all over the city one sees signs and billboards in the French language, even though English is the second most spoken language on the island and in many areas the population is actually bilingual in comparison to other parts of Québec as a Province.
Other languages that are spoken are those of Italian and Russian including Romanian and both Mandarin and Cantonese as well as Vietnamese, of which when dealing with those languages of Hindi and Marathi as well as Bengali and Urdu they are also spoken alongside Arabic and Farsi. The various forms of Castillano or La Lengua Española en las Americas as it is also called are too spoken, and the same is with those forms of Portuguese from either Portugal or Brazil when Kréyol is too spoken because of the Haitians.
When the Province of Québec wanted to succeed in 1976 and 1980 as well as 1992, the one place that was in their way was Île de Montréal and all that is Ville de Montréal as a city, in which the many ethnic groups in the city and its neighbourhoods refused to allow such Nationalist actions to occur.
Île de Montréal as an island is home to one of the liveliest Chinatowns in North America, with this Chinatown or Quarter Chinois having just as much of the charm and character of those in Vancouver and San Francisco, of which a huge Gate with traditional Wings and Marble Lions at its columns’ bases is at the main entrance.
Wonderful Chinese settings of cuisine from Peking Duck to Dim Sung and Chow Mein as well as Mu Chu and Kung Paw including Egg Fu Yung and Chop Suey are known in the Montréal Chinatown, in which the same is with Ginseng Tea as well as the so many other Teas of China. Silks and Incense as well as Lacquer Boxes and Figueres of Buddha are also sold alongside Figures of Dragons and Frogs of various types, in which those are all for Good Luck which is one of the most important things for the Chinese while as for singing Birds and the Cages for them they are also sold.
Wonderful Chinese settings of cuisine from Peking Duck to Dim Sung and Chow Mein as well as Mu Chu and Kung Paw including Egg Fu Yung and Chop Suey are known in the Montréal Chinatown, in which the same is with Ginseng Tea as well as the so many other Teas of China. Silks and Incense as well as Lacquer Boxes and Figueres of Buddha are also sold alongside Figures of Dragons and Frogs of various types, in which those are all for Good Luck which is one of the most important things for the Chinese while as for singing Birds and the Cages for them they are also sold.
The Gate
Images of Chinatown
One of the most beautiful Chinese Gardens is in the Botanical Gardens which was built next to the Olympic Stadium and the Bio Dome, in which this is made of a huge pool with a Chinese Temple overlooking it as well as Pagodas while on many occasions in celebrating the many festivals of China the pool is decorated with Lanterns shaped in the forms of Dragons and Chinese Heroes. Because of her becoming very popular outside of China the heroine who is Fa Mulan is now a common site in the garden, when Smiling Buddha figures are also seen. A beautiful wall with a huge Moon Gate is also part of this Garden as this is a very typical Chinese setting, let alone it being one of the most romantic.
The Chinese Gardens in The Botanical Gardens
More images including one by 2011 Steve Troletti -Troletti.com and another by Emily
