Montreal

Montreal Montreal Largest city in Quebec, Canada "Montrealer" redirects here. For other uses, see Montreal (disambiguation) and Montrealer (disambiguation). "City of Mary" redirects here. For the city in Ukraine, see Mariupol. Montreal[note 1] (French: Montréal)[note 2] is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the eighth-largest city in North America. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary",[15] it now takes its name from Mount Royal,[16] the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built.[17] The city is centred on the Island of Montreal[18][19] and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. It lies 196 kilometres (122 mi) east of the national capital, Ottawa, and 258…

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