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Le Plateau-Mont-Royal in Montreal

30 August 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General Reading Time:  < 1 minute

🔊 Listen to this Post Le Plateau-Mont-Royal is a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Due to its large concentration of French immigrants who arrived in the early twenty first century, the neighbourhood has been named the “French District”, “Le Petit Paris”, “La Petite-France”, or ironically “La Nouvelle-France”.   read more…

Hollywood North in Canada

14 February 2024 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General Reading Time:  18 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Hollywood North is a colloquialism used to describe film production industries and/or film locations north of its namesake, Hollywood, California. The term has been applied principally to the film industry in Canada, specifically to the cities Toronto and Vancouver. The title has been claimed for both Toronto, Ontario and Vancouver, British Columbia.   read more…

Old Montreal in Montreal

12 March 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General Reading Time:  9 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Old Montreal (French: Vieux-Montréal) is a historic neighbourhood within the municipality of Montreal in the province of Quebec, Canada. Home to the Old Port of Montreal, the neighbourhood is bordered on the west by McGill Street, on the north by Ruelle des Fortifications, on the east by rue Saint-André, and on the south by the Saint Lawrence River. Following recent amendments, the neighbourhood has expanded to include the Rue des Soeurs Grises in the west, Saint Antoine Street in the north, and Saint Hubert Street in the east.   read more…

Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel in Montreal

16 January 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time:  6 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel (chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, “Our Lady of Good Help”) 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. The church is located at 400 Saint Paul Street East at Bonsecours Street, just north of the Bonsecours Market in the borough of Ville-Marie (Champ-de-Mars metro station).   read more…

Bonsecours Market in Montreal

5 January 2023 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Museums, Exhibitions, Shopping Reading Time:  6 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Bonsecours Market (French: Marché Bonsecours), at 350 rue Saint-Paul in Old Montreal, is a two-story domed public market. For more than 100 years, it was the main public market in the Montreal area. It also briefly accommodated the Parliament of United Canada for one session in 1849. Named for the adjacent Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel, it opened in 1847. During 1849 the building was used for the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. The market’s design was influenced by Dublin‘s Customs House. Bonsecours Market was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1984.   read more…

Old Port of Montreal

30 March 2020 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General Reading Time:  6 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Old Port of Montreal (Vieux-Port de Montréal) is the historic port of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Located in Old Montreal, it stretches for over 2 km (1.2 mi) along the Saint Lawrence River. It was used as early as 1611, when French fur traders used it as a trading post. In 1976, Montreal’s Port activities were moved east to the present Port of Montreal in the borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.   read more…

Montreal in Quebec

15 September 2017 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, UNESCO World Heritage Reading Time:  23 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Montreal is the most populous municipality in the province of Quebec and the second-most populous in Canada. Originally called Ville-Marie, or “City of Mary”, it is believed to be named after Mount Royal. The city has a distinct four-season continental climate, with warm-to-hot summers and cold, snowy winters. Montreal had a population of 1.7 million. Montreal’s metropolitan area had a population of 4.1 million and a population of 2 million in the urban agglomeration, with all of the municipalities on the Island of Montreal included. Legally a French-speaking city, 60.5% of Montrealers speak French at home, 21.2% speak English and 19.8% speak neither. Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 56% of the population able to speak both official languages. Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world after Paris.   read more…

Montreal International Jazz Festival in Canada

26 February 2016 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (FIJM) (English: Montreal International Jazz Festival) is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec. The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world’s largest jazz festival. Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts (including 450 free outdoor performances), and welcomes close to 2.5 million visitors (34% of whom are tourists) as well as 400 accredited journalists. The festival takes place at 10 free outdoor stages and 10 indoor concert halls.   read more…

The Underground City of Montreal

24 April 2013 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Category: General, Shopping Reading Time:  8 minutes

🔊 Listen to this Post Montreal’s Underground City (officially RÉSO or La Ville Souterraine) is the set of interconnected complexes (both above and below ground) in and around Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is also known as the indoor city (ville intérieure), and is one of the largest underground complexes in the world.   read more…