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Montreal is a [[Canadian]] city in the [[Province]] of [[Quebec]]. The city is bilingual and the majority of its people speak both [[French]] and [[English]]. Montreal is also home to many Irish-Canadians and Jewish-Canadians.
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'''Montreal''' is the second largest [[Canadian]] city in the [[Province]] of [[Quebec]]. The city is bilingual and the majority of its people speak both [[French]] and [[English]]. In fact Montreal is the second largest French speaking city after [[Paris]], [[France]].  Montreal is also home to many Irish-Canadians and Jewish-Canadians. For many years Montreal was the largest and most important city in Canada and had many [[Canadian]] corporate headquarters however the [[Quebec separatist movement]] beginning in the 1970's and climaxing around the 1980 Referendum some 300,000 English speaking Montrealers moved, for the most part to [[Ontario]].
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<br>The City of Montreal now has a population of 1,620,693 while its Census Metropolitian Area (or CMA)  has a population of 3,635,571. <ref> 2006 Canadian Census : [http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/popdwell/Table.cfm?T=302&SR=1&S=3&O=D&RPP=25&PR=24]</ref>
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==Montreal Sports Franchises ==
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[[Montreal_Canadiens|Montreal Canadiens]] ([[NHL]] [[Hockey]])
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[[Montreal_Alouettes|Montreal Alouettes]] ([[CFL]] [[Football]])
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== External Links ==
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* [http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/B2C/00/default.asp?cookie%5Ftest=1/ Tourisme Montreal (english)]
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==References==
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[[Category:Cities]]
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