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62 unusual facts about Montreal


Bar of Quebec

Quebec applicants must be graduates of the law faculty of one of six universities: the University of Montreal, the University of Quebec at Montreal, McGill University, Laval University, the University of Ottawa, or the University of Sherbrooke.

Benjamin F. Feinberg

He died on February 6, 1959, in Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Canada, of kidney disease.

Bertrand Vac

Bertrand Vac was the nom de plume of Quebec novelist and surgeon Aimé Pelletier (b. Aug. 20, 1914, Saint-Ambroise-de-Kildare, Quebec; d. July 23, 2010, Montreal).

Betty Broadbent

She worked in shops across the country including spaces located in Montreal, San Francisco and New York.

Burr conspiracy

During the War of 1812, he was posted to Canada where his only major offensive, a campaign against Montreal, was unsuccessful.

Later he moved with his family to Canada, where he practiced law and lived in Montreal.

Cedres

Montréal/Les Cèdres Airport, general aviation aerodrome near Montreal, Quebec, Canada west of Vaudreuil-Dorion

Colton-Pierrepont Central School

The Foreign Language club has taken annual trips to Montreal, QC, Canada since 2006.

Curse of the Fly

Martin Delambre (Baker) is driving to Montreal one night when he sees a young girl by the name of Patricia Stanley (Gray) running in her underwear.

Daniel Guilet

Guilet retired from performing in 1969, after which he taught at Indiana University, the Manhattan School of Music, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Montreal, Oklahoma University and Baylor University.

Fairmont Senior High School

The Fairmont Senior Madrigal Chamber Choir, a renaissance style a cappella choir, has won numerous all-around Festivals of Music choral competitions in places such as Montreal, New York City, and Williamsburg.

Fuel tax

Excise taxes on gasoline and diesel are collected both federal and provincial governments, as well as by some select municipalities (Montreal, Vancouver, and Victoria); with combined excise taxes varying from 16.2 ¢/L (73.6 ¢/imperial gal; 61.2 ¢/US gal) in the Yukon to 30.5 ¢/L ($1.386/imperial gal; $1.153/US gal) in Vancouver.

Garbage Bowl

Many famous Montreal gridiron members of the past, present and future have either played with or coached Garbage Bowl teams.

Givi Javakhishvili

In 1958 he was a head of Georgian delegation to World Fair EXPO in Brussels, Belgium and in 1967 in Montreal, Canada.

Golden Centennaires

The Golden Centennaires performed 103 shows in Canada, including the opening and closing ceremonies of Expo 67 in Montreal, seven shows in the United States, and two shows in the Bahamas.

Guillaume Bresse

Guillaume attended primary school in the parish of St. Athanasius before leaving to work as a factory worker in Montreal.

Gulf Coast League Expos

When the Montreal Expos left Montreal after the conclusion of the 2004 season and moved to Washington, D.C. to become the Washington Nationals, the Gulf Coast League Expos became the Gulf Coast League Nationals, beginning play as such in the 2005 season.

History of the Halifax Regional Municipality

After nineteen years, her daughter and family moved to Montreal, Quebec, Leonowens followed her there.

Intria Items

Montreal, QC (Currency, Information, Remittance and Cheque)

Jack Wasserman

:Vancouver erupted as the vaudeville capital of Canada, rivaling and finally outstripping Montreal in the East and San Francisco in the south as one of the few places where the brightest stars of the nightclub era could be glimpsed from behind a post, through a smoke-filled room, over the heads of $20 tippers at ringside.

Jacob D. Cox House

A native of Montréal in Lower Canada, Cox settled in Ohio in the 1840s, served in the Ohio Senate from 1859 to 1861, and later served as the United States Secretary of the Interior during the Grant administration.

Je ne vous oublie pas

The music video was filmed and directed by Didier Kerbrat in Montreal's Imperial Theatre in July 2005, and released in September 2005.

Jean-Louis Besnard

Jean-Louis Besnard (dit Carignant) (November 22, 1734 – December 3, 1791) was a merchant trader based out of Montreal.

Jonathan Beaulieu-Bourgault

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he helped FC St. Pauli gain promotion from the Regionalliga Nord to the 2. Bundesliga during the 2006–07 season, after being forced to sit out the prior season due to a broken leg.

Joseph La France

Joseph La France, (c. 1707 – c. 1745), was a Metis fur trader in Canada, and an explorer of the inland route from Montreal to Hudson Bay.

Judith Jasmin

After being diagnosed with cancer, she returned to Montreal in 1970 where, despite her illness, she continued to report on public affairs.

Killeedy

In 1916, Thomas Shaughnessy was created the 1st Baron Shaughnessy of the City of Montreal in the Dominion of Canada and of Ashford (in Killeedy) in the County of Limerick.

Lady Meredith House

The shipowner and financier, Andrew Allan, purchased one these plots just south of the fourteen acre plot purchased by his brother, Sir Hugh Allan, on which Ravenscrag was completed in 1863.

Louis-Hector de Callières

The treaty of Montreal (1701), agreed to by representatives of all the tribes, was the crowning result of all his efforts.

M. Wylie Blanchet

Born in Montreal, Quebec, and married Geoffrey Orme Blanchet on 30 May 1909.

Martlet House

Martlet House (formerly Seagram House) is a Scottish baronial style building on Peel Street in Downtown Montreal, Quebec.

Maurice Pollack

The Foundation has also funded the Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital in Montreal, and the Pollack Cultural Centre at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom (Westmount, Quebec).

Moe Hurwitz

Sergeant Samuel Moses "Moe" Hurwitz, DCM, MM, was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, as one of thirteen children, most of whom served in the war.

Murder at Cherry Hill

Whenever they communicated in jail, Elsie reminded him that had he not confessed, the two might have gotten off scot-free in Montreal, as they had been planning to escape there.

No Place on Earth

The film also features interviews with survivors and their descendants, now living mainly in New York City and Montreal, and includes a segment in which Tobias brings some of the survivors, the oldest of whom was in his 90s, into the caves.

Northern Vermont Railroad

Iron Road ceased operations in late 2002 and NVR was merged along with Canadian American Railroad, Bangor and Aroostook Railroad and Quebec Southern Railway to form Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, now also bankrupt.

Oxford Park

Oxford Park, Montreal, a park in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce district in Montreal

Partenair Mystere

While departing Montréal/Les Cèdres Airport, the Rotax 912 engine failed and the aircraft impacted the ground, killing both occupants.

Pierre Foretier

He was born in Montreal in 1738, the son of a shoemaker who died when Pierre was nine.

Pierre Robineau de Portneuf

He was born on August, 9th, 1708 in Montreal, Quebec, second son of René Robineau de Portneuf and Marguerite Daneau de Muy, He married Marie-Louise Dandonneau Du Sablé on April 22, 1748.

Poul Ove Jensen

On December 2, 2013, Jensen was announced as the consultant for the firms that will replace the Champlain Bridge linking Montreal and Brossard, Quebec, Canada.

Praia do Norte

On December 9, 2005 while attempting to navigate to calm waters in the Bay of Praia do Fajã, the container vessel CP Valour, a Bermudan-registered ship, originally traveling between Montreal, Canada and Valencia, Spain, ran a ground 300 m from the coast.

Québec-Montréal

Directed by Ricardo Trogi, the film focuses on nine people, all on the cusp of turning 30 and dealing with complex questions about life and love, whose lives intersect on four separate road trips from Quebec City to Montreal along Quebec Autoroute 20.

Queen Mary Road

This addition increased vehicular traffic in the neighbourhood of Snowdon.

RAF Ferry Command

The practice of ferrying aircraft from US manufacturers to the UK was begun by the Atlantic Ferry Organization ("Atfero") set up by Morris W. Wilson, a banker in Montreal.

Rene Alexandre LeMoyne

He married on February 2, 1712, in Montreal, on his certificate are the names: Chavalier Claude de Ramezay (Governor of the Island of Montreal), Alexis de Fleury (Conseiller du Roi) and Louis D'Ailleboust (Escuyer (Squire), Sieur d'Argenteuil).

River surfing

The Habitat 67 standing wave in the Lachine Rapids in Montreal, named for its location adjacent to the Habitat 67 housing complex, has become a popular destination for river surfing.

Robertine Barry

Robertine Barry (26 February 1863 – 7 January 1910), pseudonym Françoise, was an early French Canadian journalist and publisher and a popular member of Montreal society.

Rubicon Riders

On May 25, 2011, the Rubicon Riders raced for the first time as a team in H2O Open, Montreal.

Rubicon Riders is a competitive team that participates in numerous competition year round around the Greater Montreal Region and Ontario.

Strickland v. Sony

Just before leaving the case, Thompson filed a motion with the court, quoting noted designer Warren Spector (Deus Ex, Thief) as being critical of Rockstar's actions, taken from a speech Spector gave at the Montreal International Game Summit.

The Midnight Meat Train

The film's original director, Patrick Tatopoulos, originally planned to shoot the film in 2005 in New York City and Montreal.

Tout l'monde est malheureux

Tout l'monde est malheureux is an album by the Ensemble Claude-Gervaise, an early music group from Montreal, Quebec led by Gilles Plante.

Transsystemic

For example, at the McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal, Quebec, Quebec civil law and Canadian common law are taught at the same time in the same courses in a non-comparative manner.

Walter D. O'Hearn

A versatile writer and editor, he wrote book reviews for The New York Times, did analytical reporting from the United Nations and produced whimsical pieces about two denizens of Montreal's Point St. Charles – Mrs. Harrigan and Mrs. Mulcahy – discussing the vital issues of the day, which were published in the Montreal Star and later issued in book form.

Ward Moore

Five months after his birth in Madison, New Jersey, in the west suburbs of New York City, Moore moved with his parents to Montreal, where his mother's family lived.

Warren Bockwinkel

Retiring during the late 1950s, he briefly came out of retirement to team with his son to face Verne Gagne and his son Greg in Montreal at a memorial show for promoter Johnny Rougeau in 1984; Bockwinkel, at age 72, is one of the oldest wrestlers to ever compete in a professional wrestling match.

Wicker Park, Chicago

However, the filming of this movie was done on location in Montreal, Quebec.

William Munroe Archibald

He was educated at McGill University, Montreal, where he graduated in 1897 with an engineering degree.

William Oliver Rose

He graduated in 1898 and served at the Royal Victoria Hospital, later moving to Nelson, British Columbia.

William Sullivan Barnes

Barnes was a practicing minister in various locations in Massachusetts before accepting a position with the Unitarians of Montreal to succeed John Cordner, a distinguished minister with an established congregation of many leading citizens.

You Can Thank Me Later

Shirley Cooperberg (Ellen Burstyn) is the strong-willed matriarch of a well-heeled Montreal Jewish family.


1948–49 NHL season

Montreal lost Elmer Lach with a fractured jaw when he collided with Toronto defenceman Bob Goldham, and Emile "Butch" Bouchard injured a knee.

A Simple Plan

Simple Plan, a pop punk band formed in 1999 in Montreal, Canada

A. Laubin

In spite of their relative scarcity, Laubin oboes are played by a significant number of highly regarded oboists, including some in the New York Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.

Al Phaneuf

In October 1971, Phaneuf founded a Christian-based Youth Ranch for high school students on Montreal's West Island.

Aldo Group

The company was founded by Aldo Bensadoun in Montreal, Quebec, in 1972, where its corporate headquarters remain today.

Alfredas Kulpa-Kulpavičius

These include Our Lady's Church, Montreal (1952), St. St. Casimir's Church, Winnipeg and St. Gregory's Church, Toronto (1959), Lithuanian Martyrs' Church, Mississauga, Providence of God Church and Cultural Center, Detroit and St. Thomas Church, London (1978), Corporation Canadien Tire Building, Toronto (1979) etc.

Armand de La Richardie

These had already in 1740, owing to a bloody feud with the Detroit Ottawas and to the reluctance, if not refusal, of Governor Beauharnais to let the Hurons remove to Montreal, sullenly left Detroit and settled at "Little Lake" (now Rondeau Harbour) near Sandusky.

Beat the Drum

Premiering at the 2003 Mill Valley Film Festival, Beat The Drum won 30 international film festival awards, including the prestigious Montreal Zenith D'Or and the Monaco International Film Festival Angel Award, the festival's top honor.

Blue Ensign

Yachts belonging to members of certain long-established Canadian yacht clubs, such as, the Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club, Champlain Yacht Club, Montreal Yacht Club, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Royal Kennebaccasis Yacht Club, Royal Lake of the Woods Yacht Club, Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club, Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club, Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, and Royal Victoria Yacht Club.

CECM

Montreal Catholic School Commission (Commission des écoles catholiques de Montréal),

Charles Sandwith Campbell

Already a director of the Montreal Jockey Club and on the committee of the Montreal Horse Show, he became involved in breeding racehorses.

Château Dufresne

The founding fathers of the city of Maisonneuve - now incorporated with the city of Montreal - the famous Dufresne brothers were wealthy twentieth century French Canadian entrepreneurs who played a major role in the history of Montreal.

Chloe Davies

In 2013 Davies was again selected for the British team, this time for the 2013 IPC Swimming World Championships in Montreal.

Concrete canoe

The 2008 National Concrete Canoe Competition was held in Montreal, Quebec and hosted by École de technologie supérieure.

David Ede

He started his teaching career as an instructor at Augsburg College in Minneapolis and McGill University in Montreal before moving to the Western Michigan University Department of Comparative Religion where he taught Islamic Studies from 1970 to 2008 and served as departement head at the time of his death in 2008.

David Maley

Maley was a part of the University of Wisconsin–Madison team that won the NCAA Division I hockey championship in 1983, and a member of the Montreal Canadiens when they won the Stanley Cup in 1986.

David Ross McCord

He was the fourth child of John Samuel McCord (1801-1865), Judge of the Supreme Court, and Anne Ross, a daughter of David Ross (1770-1837) Q.C., of Montreal, Seigneur of St. Gilles de Beaurivage.

Denis Bédard

A series of grants from the Canada Council enabled him to pursue studies in Paris with André Isoir (organ) and Laurence Boulay (harpsichord and figured bass realization) and in Montreal with Bernard Lagacé (organ and harpsichord) between 1973-1975.

Eli-Eri Moura

He studied composition with José Alberto Kaplan and Mário Ficarelli, in Brazil, and later with Brian Cherney, Alcides Lanza and John Rea, at McGill University, in Montreal, Canada, where he received two of his graduate degrees (Master of Music and Doctor of Music in Composition).

Éric Cyr

Cyr graduated from Edouard Montpetit High School in Montreal and attended Seminole State College in Oklahoma.

Fairness is a Two-Way Street Act

Both sides of the Ontario-Quebec border are highly populated with major population centres on both sides - Ottawa and Cornwall on the Ontario side, and Montreal and Hull on the Quebec side.

Franco Dragone

In the 1980s Dragone came to Montreal, Canada, where Guy Caron, director of the National Circus School, invited him to conduct workshops with the students and teachers at his school.

George Reinblatt

He has also been a writer for Rick Mercer's Monday Report, was the head writer for Canada's Walk of Fame in 2006, and has been a writer at Montreal's Just for Laughs comedy festival, where he has written for the likes of John Cleese, Tina Fey, Kelly Ripa, William Shatner, Howie Mandel, Jason Alexander, Dame Edna, Joan Rivers, George Lopez, Tom Arnold and James Belushi, amongst others.

George Vari

Vari made his fortune in international real estate development, building Paris' Tour Montparnasse, six of the pavilions at Expo 1967 in Montreal, and Moscow's Hotel Cosmos.

Grundman

Irving Grundman, former general manager of the Montreal Canadiens

Guy Street

Concordia University's Integrated Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Complex is located on this street, as is the John Molson School of Business building.

Hana Makhmalbaf

Her first feature film, Buddha Collapsed out of Shame won an award at Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal, Canada in 2007, as well as two awards from San Sebastian International Film Festival, Spain, and the Crystal Bear for the Best Feature Film by the Generation Kplus Children’s Jury at the Berlinale Film Festival 2008.

Helen King

King graduated from Queen's University Department of Drama in 1994, moving to Montreal in 1995.

Henry Lundy

Lundy returned to the ring five weeks later, again on ESPN, with a unanimous decision win over Omri Lowther in Montreal, Quebec – a fight Lundy agreed to take on just three days’ notice.

Interactive Brokers

(IB) is a U.S. based online discount brokerage firm headquartered in Greenwich CT in the United States and with offices in Budapest, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Montreal, Mumbai, Shanghai, Saint Petersburg, Sydney, Tallinn, Tokyo, and Zug.

Jacqueline Montpetit

Vision Montreal lost this election to Gérald Tremblay's Montreal Island Citizens Union (MICU), and Montpetit initially served as an opposition member.

Jean-François Pouliot

He was born in Montreal and studied at Concordia University.

Joseph Périnault

In 1765, with Montreal merchant Pierre Foretier, he purchased a large part of the seigneury of Île-Bizard and the sub-fief of Closse, later selling his share to Foretier.

Madagascar at the 2006 Winter Olympics

Mathieu Razanakolona born in Montreal of Malagasy descent, finished 39th out of more than 70 starters in the men's giant slalom.

Montreal Metropolitan Commission

The Montreal Metropolitan Commission (known in French as the Commission métropolitaine de Montréal) was a former authority that was involved in municipal affairs affecting the urbanized part of the Island of Montreal.

Montréal Québec Temple

The temple serves more than 12,200 church members from the Montréal; Ottawa, Ontario; Montpelier, Vermont; and upstate New York areas.

Nariné Simonian

She has also given concerts in Russia, Belgium, Switzerland (in Bulle, at Saint-Pierre des des Liens) where she has a recorded a CD, in Finland, at Kiev (Ukraine in 2003 with Dominique de Williencourt and in November 2008 at the Organ Hall), in North America (New York on 1 November 1998, at the Armenian Evangelical Church of New York, in Montreal and in South America in 1997, along with Olivier Latry (Argentina, Uruguay at the Festival Internacional del Uruguay Órgano,.

P. J. Stock

On February 3, 2010, Stock joined the morning show team of Chantal Desjardins and Pete Marier on CHOM-FM in Montreal.

Punk the Vote!

Roach and Starbuck, two hardcore punks from Montreal, try to form their own political party, but run out of time due to Canada's electoral process.

Quebec Major Junior Hockey League

Sherbrooke Castors moved to Maine, becoming the Lewiston Maineiacs; Montreal Rocket moved to Charlottetown and took the Prince Edward Island name, Hull Olympiques become Gatineau Olympiques.

Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion

Several days later, thanks to an electronic device found on Caze's body, Fateh Kamel, head of a terrorist cell in Montreal was arrested in Jordan and tried in France.

Repentigny, Quebec

Repentigny and Charlemagne are the first towns off the Eastern tip of the island of Montreal.

Robert Bowie Owens

After seven years of service left the now-department in shape comparable to other universities of the time, in August 1898, Owens took a position as MacDonald Chair of Electrical Engineering at McGill University in Montreal.

Ronald Sackville

Sackville has held many academic posts, including visiting appointments at McGill University (Montreal), Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University (New York), Cornell University (New York) and New York University.

Sophie Atkinson

Taking advantage of Canadian Pacific’s free passes to artists and writers, she travelled from British Columbia through Canada to Calgary, Ottawa and Montreal.

Steven Lett

Steven Lett (born 1958) is an American diplomat and current head of the International Cospas-Sarsat Programme in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Théophile Alajouanine

The Laboratoire Théophile-Alajouanine, Centre hospitalier Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal is named after him.

Une vie meilleure

But things turn upside down, high financing costs make things difficult, and Nadia, has to accept a temporary work opportunity in Montreal to pitch in with extra money.

Victor Zâmbrea

His works are found in private and public collections in Paris, Bucharest, Moscow, Kiev, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Riga, Vilnius, Timişoara, Braşov, Odessa, Nikolaev, Tumen, Novokuznetsk, Esentuki, Sighetu Marmaţiei.