City of Montreal (QC, Canada)
Montreal is a very cosmopolitan city, a unique bilingual metropolis in the middle of the eastern Canada. Most people speak French, but if you ask anything in English, anyone understands what you say.
The second-largest city in Canada and the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec, Montreal was originally called Ville-Marie or the “City of Mary”. Most believe its present name comes from Mount Royal, the three-headed hill at the heart of the city, on the St Laurent river’s island on which the city is located.
Montreal has a thriving art community and is renowned for putting on spectacular festivals. It has a booming aerospace industry and a vast network of free wireless internet. The city is a mixture of old and new. In the summer, the fireworks are exclamation marks that punctuate Saturday nights.
A lively patchwork of gleaming skyscrapers, bohemian enclaves and high-gloss hideaways now outshines the city’s gritty industrial past. As a unique city to all others in North America, visitors to Montreal will be delighted with what they find.
All City Rankings in Worldwide Surveys
| Ranked 4th | Best Cities to Live in (2004) | |
| Ranked 8th | Most Livable Cities (2002) | |
| Ranked 10th | Best Bicyle Cities (2007) | |
| Ranked 10th | Healthiest Cities (2007) | |
| Ranked 12th | Most Liveable Cities (2007) | |
| Ranked 22nd | Safest Cities (2008) | |
| Ranked 22nd | Cities with Best Quality of Life (2008) | |
| Ranked 22nd | Cities with Best Quality of Life (2007) |
All City Rankings in Regional Surveys
| Ranked 82nd |  Canada's Most Prosper Places to Live (2008) |
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