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questions Where is Montreal? Montreal is located on the St. Lawrence river in the province of Quebec (Canada). What is Montreal? In a nut shell, Montreal is a bilingual (English and French officially) cosmopolitan city of over one million habitants. Why should one visit Montreal? Historically, Montreal is among the oldest cities in North America. Culturally, it offers a long history. When was Montreal founded? A stockaded Native American village, Hochelaga, was found on the site (1535) by Cartier, and the island was visited in 1603 by Champlain, but it was not settled by the French until 1642, when a band of priests, nuns, and settlers under Paul de Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve, founded the Ville Marie de Montréal. How to get to Montreal?
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