Crossword clues for montreal
montreal
- French-Canadian city
- Largest city in Quebec
- Canadian city
- City in Quebec
- 1976 Summer Games locale
- Second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world
- NHL city
- Where Jackie Robinson broke the colour bar
- St. Lawrence River city
- Ran motel (anag) — Canadian city
- Quebec port of call
- Quebec Forces Base
- Molson Stadium locale
- Canadian hosts of the 1976 Olympics
- Alias YUL
- 1976 Summer Olympics site
- Where The Gazette is published
- City originally called Ville-Marie
- The 2nd largest French-speaking city in the world
- The largest city in Quebec and 2nd largest in Canada
- A city in southern Quebec province on the Saint Lawrence River
- Habitants' home
- Les Canadiens
- Seat of McGill University
- Home of the Canadiens
- City of Saints
- Expo '67 city
- Method learnt differently in North American city
- Quebec's largest city
- Quebec's most populous city
- City loan term renegotiated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
city in Canada, originally Ville Marie de Montréal, settled by the French 1642, named for the hill on which it was built, Mont Réal, in French literally "royal mount;" named 1534 by Jacques Cartier in honor of Francis I. Related: Montrealer.\n
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 487
Land area (2000): 2.241113 sq. miles (5.804457 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.009724 sq. miles (0.025185 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.250837 sq. miles (5.829642 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54075
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 46.429081 N, 90.238845 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Montreal
Wikipedia
Montreal is a city in Quebec, Canada.
Montréal or Montreal may also refer to:
Montreal is a Crusader castle on the eastern side of the Arabah, perched on the side of a rocky, conical mountain, looking out over fruit trees below. The ruins, called Shoubak or Shawbak in Arabic, are located in modern town of Shoubak in Jordan.
Montreal (; ; French: Montréal) is the most populous city in Quebec and the second most populous municipality in Canada. Originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary," it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The city is on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. It has a distinct four-season continental climate with warm to hot summers and cold snowy winters.
In 2011 the city had a population of 1,649,519. Montreal's metropolitan area had a population of 3,824,221 and a population of 1,886,481 in the urban agglomeration, with all of the municipalities on the Island of Montreal included. The 2014 estimate of the population of the metropolitan area of Montreal is 4.1 million. French is the city's official language and is the language spoken at home by 56.9% of the population of the city, followed by English at 18.6% and 19.8% other languages (in the 2006 census). In the larger Montreal Census Metropolitan Area, 67.9% of the population speaks French at home, compared to 16.5% who speak English. Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada with 56% of the population able to speak both English and French. Montreal is the second largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris.
Historically the commercial capital of Canada, it was surpassed in population and economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. It remains an important centre of commerce, aerospace, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, culture, tourism, gaming, film and world affairs. Being the location of the headquarters of the International Civil Aviation Organization, Montreal is one of three North American cities home to organizations of the United Nations (along with Washington, D.C. and New York) and also has the second-highest number of consulates in the continent. Montreal was also named a UNESCO City of Design. In 2009, Montreal was named North America's leading host city for international association events, according to the 2009 preliminary rankings of the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA). The 2016 edition of QS Best Student Cities ranked Montreal the 7th-best city in the world to be a university student. According to the 2015 Global Liveability Ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit, Montreal ranked 14th out of 140 cities.
Montreal has hosted multiple international conferences and events throughout its history, including the 1967 International and Universal Exposition and the 1976 Summer Olympic Games. It is the only Canadian city to have held the Summer Olympics. Currently, the city hosts the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One, the Montreal International Jazz Festival and the Just for Laughs festival. In 2012, Montreal was ranked as a Beta+ world city.
Usage examples of "montreal".
The Montfort women of Montreal had been celebrated for their style, she said, but of course Adelia Montfort had died before I was born.
Smith landed in Montreal at a time when nationalist stirrings had reached their culmination in the Papineau rebellion, and his vessel passed the steamer Canada, carrying the last of the Patriotes of the 1837 uprising to Bermudan exile.
I believe I got from either the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Montreal or the Biltmore in New York.
The larger gangs move into the cities, such as Montreal, only to find that they are safer from prosecution in towns and villages where police forces are small and easily intimidated.
The Montreal chapter recruits gangs from around the province shortly after it is formed on December 5, 1977.
For there is that about this genial frontiersman that draws all men to him alike, be they Scotch or English, Canadian habitans or Montagnais, and he is the king of the coast, as his father was before him, or as was old Peter McKenzie, the head factor, who incidentally cast the best salmon fly ever thrown east of Montreal or south of Ungava.
Sonny Lacombe and Doctor John Arksey from the Montreal chapter, as well as the Ottawa chapter to join the Outlaws.
Pierre LaManche, the chef de service for the medicolegal section at the crime lab in Montreal.
Montreal and loajed on the Stord, a Norwegian -built merchant ship, which promptly ran aground at Pointe des Monts in the Gulf of St Lawrence.
Montague, John, 281 Naskapi Indians Montreal, 23-24, 25, 43, 44, 48 Nault, Alexandre, 67 Moran, Lord, 430 Nault, Andre, 54 Moravians, 2 3 3 Nesbitt, A.
What is more, association-ism, initially a psychological theory, became a neurobiological one as well in the hands of the Montreal psychologist Donald Hebb, whose book The Organization of Behaviour, published in 1949, explicitly offered a cellular, neural version of associationism.
Two Outlaws approach Detective-Sergeant Normand Ostiguy as he sips his coffee in an east Montreal restaurant on November 25.
Then the quid pro quo: Gammons tells Billy that the Montreal Expos have decided to trade their slugging outfielder, Cliff Floyd, to the Boston Red Sox.
The Montreal Company were also to obtain the extension of the Minnesota telegraph to your boundary near Pembina, you extending your telegraph to that point.
In the 1962 election, however, the suburbanites rejected the Tories and out of the fifty-eight seats in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Vancouver, Diefenbaker held on to only nine.