Welcome to Montreal, Quebec, Canada

The native Indian settlement of Hochelaga was a trading post when Jacques Cartier planted his cross atop Mont-Royal. The first French settlers founded the colony of Ville-Marie in 1642 on the same site as Hochelaga only to rename it Montreal a few short years later.

A French settlement for most of its existence, Montreal is also the second largest French-speaking city in the world outside of France. Montreal was incorporated into the British Empire in 1760. Montreal is the second largest city in Canada with a population of over 1.7 million with 3.3 million in the greater metropolitan region.

Multi-cultural neighborhoods include Chinatown (between Coté and Saint-Laurent), Little Italy (bordered by the quadrangle of St-Ziotique), Jean-Talon Boulevard,(Drolet and Marconi), the Greek community of Park-Ex (Park Avenue), the Rainbow Village or simply The Village (along Sainte-Catherine, from Saint-Hubert to Papineau), the Quartier Latin francophone hub of Montreal located between Sainte-Catherine and Sherbrooke from Sanguinet to Berri) and Plateau Mont-Royal the trendy community of artistes and fashionable Montrealers located north of Sherbrooke and east of Saint-Laurent).

Montreal Maps

The numbers on the map correspond to the following points of interest: 1:Morgan Arboretum, 2:Centrale Riviere-des-Prairies, 3:Lachine Canal interpretation centre, 4:Cosmodome, 5:Delco Aviation, 6:St-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal, 7:St Laurence Valley Ecomuseum, 8:Visitation Church Sault-au-Recollet, 9:Electrium, 10:Macdonald Campus Farm, 11:Flowers Aviation, 12:Fort Chambly, 13:Fourquet Fourchet, 14:Imax Les Ailes, 15:St Laurence River excursions, 16:Lachine Fur Trade historic site, 17:Fleming Windmill historic site, 18:Museum of the City of Lachine, 19:Delson/St Constant Canadian Railway Museum, 20:to Parc Safari, 21:Recreatheque, 22:Site Cavernicole de St-Leonard, 23:Sport Action 2000, 24:Sucrerie de la Montagne (maple sugar), 25:to Granby Zoo

METRO Du Montreal

Visiting Montreal? Here are some useful tips to avoid bad surprises at the métro ticket booth: Purchase of transit fares can only be paid in cash. Our employees cannot provide foreign currency exchange. However, American Dollars are accepted at their nominal value (1 to 1) USA Tourists lose 20% - Get Canadian dollars before using the Metro.

Montreal Education Listings

School is compulsory for all children from 6 to 16 years of age. Some 110,000 students made their way back to classrooms in Quebec’s 340 English public schools September 2007.

The education system in Montreal consists of four levels of instruction offered in English and in French: primary, which includes preschool, secondary, college and university. The school year begins at the beginning of September and usually ends on June 24 for primary and secondary school and in the month of May for college and university students. Public education from preschool to college is free for Quebec residents and for the children of foreign workers with temporary work permits.

Quebec English School Boards Association
1410 Stanley St., Suite 515
Montréal, Québec H3A 1P8
Tel.: 514-849-5900
Toll Free: 1-877-512-7522
Fax: 514-849-9228

McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

Montreal is home to the world famous McGill University.

McGill Faculty and Program Listings:
Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
School of Dietetics and Human Nutrition
McGill School of Environment
Agricultural Economics
Animal Science
Bioresource Engineering
Food Science and Agricultural Chemistry
Natural Resource Sciences
Plant Science
Farm Management and Technology Program
Avian Science and Conservation Centre
Brace Centre for Water Resources Management
Centre for Indigenous Peoples'
Nutrition and Environment
Institute of Parasitology
Dairy Information Systems
Group Lyman Entomological Museum
McGill University Herbarium


Faculty of Arts
School of Social Work
McGill School of Environment
Anthropology
Art History and Communication Studies
East Asian Studies
Economics
English
English and French Language Centre
French Language and Literature
German Studies
Hispanic Studies
History
Italian Studies
Linguistics
Philosophy
Political Science
Russian and Slavic Studies
Sociology
Centre for Developing-Area Studies
Centre for East Asian Research
Institute for Health and Social Policy
McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women
McGill Institute for the Study of Canada
McGill Centre for Loss and Bereavement
Research Group in Conflict and Human Rights


Centre for Continuing Education
Continuing Education site
Career and Management Studies
Education
English and French language programs
General Studies
Learning in Retirement
Translation Studies


Faculty of Dentistry


Faculty of Education
School of Information Studies
Educational and Counselling
Psychology
Integrated Studies in Education
Kinesiology and Physical Education
Education Research Centre


Faculty of Engineering
School of Architecture
School of Urban Planning
Chemical Engineering
Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Mining,
Metals and Materials Engineering
Centre for Advanced Systems and Technologies in Communications
Centre for Intelligent Machines
McGill Metals Processing Centre
Polymer McGill Research Centre
McGill Institute for Advanced Materials


Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Faculty of Law
Master's Specialization in Bioethics
Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
Centre for Intellectual Property
Policy Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law
Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law
Institute for European Studies
Institute of Air & Space Law
Institute of Comparative Law


Desautels Faculty of Management
BCom Program Chartered Accountancy Program
MBA Program
PhD Program
Post MBA Certificate
Centre for Strategy Studies in Organizations
McGill Finance Research Centre
Business and Management Research Centre
Centre for International Management Studies
Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies
International Executive Institute
International Masters Program for Health Leadership
Management Career Centre
Management Science Research Centre
McGill Institute of Marketing


Faculty of Medicine
School of Communication Sciences & Disorders
School of Nursing
School of Physical & Occupational Therapy
Anatomy and Cell Biology
Anesthesia
Biochemistry
Biomedical Engineering
Diagnostic Radiology Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Family Medicine
Human Genetics Medicine
Microbiology & Immunology
Neurology & Neurosurgery
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Occupational Health
Oncology
Ophthalmology
Otolaryngology
Pathology
Pediatrics
Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Physiology
Psychiatry
Social Studies of Medicine
Surgery
Centre for Bone and Periodontal Research
Centre for Nursing Research
Centre for Research on Language, Mind and Brain
Centre for the Study of Host Resistance
Institute for Health and Social Policy
McGill AIDS Centre
McGill Cancer Centre
McGill Centre for Bioinformatics
McGill Centre for Studies in Aging
McGill University and Génome
Québec Innovation Centre
Douglas Hospital
Montreal Children's Hospital
Montreal General Hospital
Montreal Neurological Hospital
Royal Victoria Hospital
St. Mary's Hospital Center
Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital
Biomedical Ethics Unit
Centre for Continuing Medical Education
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Division of Dermatology
Division of Gastroenterology
Division of General Internal Medicine
Division of General Surgery
Division of Orthopaedic Surgery
Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry
Division of Surgical Research
Division of Urology
Programs in Whole Person Care Technology Assessment Unit of the MUHC

Schulich School of Music
Performance Theory
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology
McGill Conservatory of Music

Faculty of Religious Studies
Master's Specialization in Bioethics Philosophy and Western Religions
Asian Religion and Ethics Research Unit
Biblical Studies
Centre for Research on Religion
Indonesia Social Equity Project

Faculty of Science