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La Fontaine Park (French: Parc La Fontaine) is a 34 ha (84 acres) urban park located in the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.Named in honour of Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, The park's features include two linked ponds with a fountain and waterfalls, the Théâtre de Verdure open-air venue, the Calixa-Lavallée cultural centre, a monument to Adam Dollard des Ormeaux ...
Place Ville Marie. / 45.5015; -73.5684. Place Ville Marie ( PVM for short) is a large office and shopping complex skyscraper in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, comprising four office buildings and an underground shopping plaza. The main building, 1 Place Ville Marie (formerly Royal Bank Tower from its anchor tenant), was built in the ...
Location (in red) of Verdun on the Island of Montreal. (Grey areas indicate demerged municipalities). Verdun ( / vərˈdʌn / vər-DUN, French: [vɛʁdœ̃], Quebec French: [vaɛ̯ʁdœ̃˞]) is a borough ( arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, located in the southeastern part of the island. Long known as a working class ...
Urban agglomeration of Montreal. / 45.500°N 73.567°W / 45.500; -73.567. The urban agglomeration of Montreal ( French: agglomération de Montréal) is an urban agglomeration in Quebec, Canada. Coextensive with the administrative region of Montréal, it is a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and a census ...
Old Montreal. / 45.50500°N 73.55500°W / 45.50500; -73.55500. Old Montreal ( French: Vieux-Montréal) is a historic neighbourhood within the municipality of Montreal in the province of Quebec, Canada. Home to the Old Port of Montreal, the neighbourhood is bordered on the west by McGill Street, on the north by Ruelle des Fortifications ...
Nuns' Island. / 45.46111°N 73.54333°W / 45.46111; -73.54333. Nuns' Island (officially Île-des-Sœurs; French pronunciation: [il de sœʁ]) is an island located in the Saint Lawrence River that forms a part of the city of Montreal, Quebec. It is part of the borough of Verdun .
An agglomeration, or urban agglomeration, is an administrative division of Quebec at the local level that may group together a number of municipalities which were abolished as independent entities on 1 January 2002 but reconstituted on 1 January 2006. Urban agglomerations have certain powers that would ordinarily be exercised by individual ...
Montreal is located in the southwest of the province of Quebec, approximately 275 km (171 mi) southwest of Quebec City, the provincial capital, and 167 km (104 mi) east of Ottawa, the federal capital. It also lies 502 km (312 mi) northeast of Toronto, 407 km (253 mi) northwest of Boston and 530 km (330 mi) directly north of New York City.