| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
| − | 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. | + | '''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]]. |
| − | [[category:Canada]] | + | <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> |
| | + | |
| | + | ==Montreal Sports Franchises == |
| | + | |
| | + | [[Montreal_Canadiens|Montreal Canadiens]] ([[NHL]] [[Hockey]]) |
| | + | |
| | + | [[Montreal_Alouettes|Montreal Alouettes]] ([[CFL]] [[Football]]) |
| | + | |
| | + | == External Links == |
| | + | * [http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/B2C/00/default.asp?cookie%5Ftest=1/ Tourisme Montreal (english)] |
| | + | |
| | + | ==References== |
| | + | <References/> |
| | + | |
| | + | [[Category:Cities]] |
| | + | [[Category:Canada]] |