MontrealPowerPoint presentation

created by:Tanya Avrith B.A., B.Ed.

Information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal

Notes on MontrealMontreal is the second largest city in Canada.

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• Montreal is the largest city (in terms of population) in the province of Quebec.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal#Places_in_Montreal

• According to the last Canadian census, the city itself has 1,812,723 inhabitants (Almost 2 million people!)

• 3,607,000 people live in the greater Montréal area (Statistics Canada 2004). (Over 3 and a half million people!)

Montreal before January 1, 2006 demergerwith 27 municipalities.

Montreal since the January 1,2006 city demerger: in red the City of Montreal in blue the 15 independent municipalities.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal#Places_in_Montreal

• Montreal has a multicultural population.

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• French is the most common spoken language in Montreal.

• Montreal is a bilingual city. Most people can speak both French and English. Many others can speak a third language.

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• Francophone- A person whose first language is French.

• Anglophone- A person whose first language is English.

• Allophone- A person whose first language is neither French nor English.

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Why do you think we call it “Old Montreal?”

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Brief Montreal History

• The human history of Montreal started with the Algonquin, Huron, and Iroquois tribes of North America approximately 8,000 years ago.

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• An Iroquois village, called Hochelaga, was located on the land that is the city of Montreal today.

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• Hochelaga was located by Beaver Lake.

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European Explorers

• The first European to reach the area was Jacques Cartier, when, on October 2, 1535, he entered the village of Hochelega, on the Island of Montreal.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cartier

Samuel de Champlain

• Seventy years later, Samuel de Champlain decided to establish a fur trading post at Port Royal on the Island of Montreal, but the local Iroquois successfully defended their land.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_de_Champlain

Settlement Begins

• The first permanent European settlement was created on the Island of Montreal in 1639 by a French tax collector named Jérôme Le Royer.

• Missionaries Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, Jeanne Mance and a few French colonists set up a mission named Ville Marie on May 17, 1642.

Mayor Jean Drapeau

• Jean Drapeau (February 18, 1916 – August 12, 1999) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Montreal from 1954 to 1957 and 1960 to 1986. During his tenure as mayor he was responsible for the construction of the Metro system and the Place des Arts concert hall, for conceiving Expo '67, and for securing the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Drapeau

Mayor Jean Drapeau

• Despite being a creative thinker, his mishandling of the construction of the Olympic Games facilities resulted in massive cost overruns and left the city with a debt that citizens are still paying.

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Mayor Jean Drapeau

• After Montreal's population surpassed one million in the early 1950s, Mayor Jean Drapeau laid down plans for the future development of the city.

• These plans included a new metro system and an underground city, the expansion of Montreal's harbour, and the opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway.

• In 1966, the metro opened, along with several new expressways.

Montreal Metro System (STM)• The Montreal metro system was first built to service the

1967 World's Fair, Expo '67, held in the summer of 1967.

• Why do you think the metro system was needed?

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Metro_System

• With the awarding of the 1976 Summer Olympics to Montreal, construction began in October 1971 for the extension of Line 1 from Frontenac to Honoré-Beaugrand to service the main Olympic site; the new stations were opened in June 1976.

• Today there are 70 metro stations that are spread out around the Island of Montréal.

• There are 4 lines: Yellow, Orange, Blue, and Green.

• Why do you think there are no metro lines in the West Island?

STM (Societe de Transport de Montreal)

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Montreal has an underground city!

Source: http://www2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/cmsprod/observatoire_economique/available_english_documents/montreal__facts_and_figures#underground

Underground City Facts

• The largest and best-known section of the underground city is located in the centre of downtown.

• Between Peel and Place-des-Arts metro stations on the Green Line and between Lucien-L'Allier and Place-d'Armes stations on the Orange Line.

• Why do you think Montreal has an Underground city?

Map on the wall at the McGill Metro station between the

Centre Eaton and Les Ailes de la Mode.

Montreal is an Island surrounded by water.

The bodies of water that surround Montreal is the Saint. Lawrence River and the Ottawa River.

How do you think being close to water

has helped Montreal?

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Montreal Landmarks

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Mount-Royal

• Mount Royal is a mountain on the Island of Montreal, immediately north of downtown Montréal, Québec, Canada, the city to which it gave its name.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Royal

Saint Joseph’s Oratory• Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal is

a Roman Catholic basilica on the northern slope of Mount Royal in Montreal, Canada

• The Oratory's dome is the second-largest of its kind in the world after Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, and the church is the largest in Canada.

• In 1904, Brother André (Alfred Bessette) began the construction of a small chapel on the side of the mountain near Notre Dame College.

• A reliquary in the church museum contains Brother André's heart, which he requested as a protection for the basilica.

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Joseph%27s_Oratory

Old Montreal

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Old Montreal Facts

• Old Montreal (or Vieux-Montréal in French) is the oldest area in Montreal, dating back to colonial times.

• Old Montreal itself is a major tourist draw; with the oldest of its buildings dating to the 1600s, it is one of the oldest urban areas in North America.

• Montreal became a fortified city in the 1600’s, with the city walls' former location marking the modern boundaries of Old Montreal.

• Why do you think Montreal needed to have walls surrounding it?

Habitat 67’

• Habitat '67 is a striking housing complex located in Montreal.

• It was designed to bring together the idea of having a home but making the home affordable by placing it in a apartment complex.

• The project was designed to create affordable housing with close but private quarters, each equipped with a garden. It failed in its goal of being affordable as the building is today quite elite.

• It is now a privately-owned condominium complex since it was purchased by its tenants in 1985.

Souce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67

The Biodome• The Montreal Biodome is a facility

located in Montreal that allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas: a tropical forest, a Laurentian forest, an estuary habitat modeled on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and a polar area divided into Arctic and Antarctic zones

• All the exhibits are housed inside the Velodrome (cycling stadium) that was used for the 1976 Summer Olympics, with each of the four environments taking up a portion of the stadium

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodome

The Geodesic Dome• The geodesic dome

once housed the American pavilion for Expo 67.

• It is located on the man made island of Iles Saint Helene.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic_dome

The Botanical Gardens• The Jardin botanique de Montréal or

Montreal Botanical Garden is a large botanical garden in Montreal.

• The botanical gardens occupy a large park near Montreal's Olympic Stadium. They contain a greenhouse complex full of plants from around the world, and a number of large outdoor gardens, each with a specific theme.

• The garden was founded in 1931, in the height of the Great Depression. It serves to educate the public in general and students of horticulture in particular, it serves to conserve endangered plant species, and it is used for botanical research.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_botanical_garden

Place Ville Marie• Place Ville-Marie is an office tower

built in 1962 in Montreal, Quebec .

• The building has a cruciform, which means it takes on the shape of a cross.

• It is 188m (617ft) in height with 46 stories.

• • Place Ville Marie was built over

swamp land and has generators under the building that keep the land frozen solid.

• Along with an underground shopping mall, it forms the centre of Montreal's underground city.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_Ville_Marie