Casino de Montréal

The Casino de Montréal is a casino located on the Île Notre-Dame in Montreal. The casino is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week to patrons aged 18 and older. It has been a non-smoking casino since July 2003, and the former smoking lounges were closed in May 2006 with the passing of a new provincial law. Alcoholic beverages are prohibited in the playing areas, and so are hats.

Grande Bibliothèque

The Grande Bibliothèque is a very large public library in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its collection is part of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Quebec's national library.

Greater Montreal

Greater Montreal is the most populous metropolitan area in the Canadian province of Quebec. As of 2009, Statistics Canada identifies Montreal's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) (land area 4,259 square kilometres (1,644 sq mi)) as Canada's second most populous with a population of 3,814,700. A smaller area of 3,838 square kilometres (1,482 sq mi) is governed by the Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC) (French: Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal, CMM). This level of government is headed by a president (currently City of Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay).

Les FrancoFolies de Montréal

Les FrancoFolies de Montréal is a large annual festival located in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, featuring over 1,000 French-language performers from all over the world, as well as attracting over 500,000 visitors.

Currently in its 20th year, the Francofolies festival is the largest musical extravaganza in the French-speaking world.

McCord Museum

The McCord Museum (in French, Musée McCord) is a public research and teaching museum dedicated to the preservation, study, diffusion, and appreciation of Canadian history. The museum, whose full name is McCord Museum of Canadian History, is located at 690 Sherbrooke Street West (45°30′15.80″N 73°34′24.60″W / 45.5043889, -73.5735), next to McGill University, in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Montréal International

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Old Montreal

Old Montreal (or Vieux-Montréal in French) is the oldest area in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, dating back to New France.

Located in the borough of Ville-Marie, the area is usually thought of as being bounded to the west by McGill St., to the north by Ruelle des Fortifications, to the east by Berri St., and to the south by the Saint Lawrence River. Following recent amendments, the district has been slightly expanded to include rue des Soeurs Grises to the west, Saint Antoine St. to the north and the St-Hubert Street in the east. It also includes the Old Port of Montreal. Most of Old Montreal was declared historic district in 1964 by the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec.

Old Port of Montreal

Stretching for over two kilometres along the St-Lawrence River in Old Montreal, the Old Port Of Montreal has been the social, economic and cultural soul of Montreal ever since early French fur traders used it as a trading post in 1611. It was here that the city and the port came to life more than 350 years ago.

The redevelopment of the city's Old Port took place in the early 90s, under the direction of architects Aurèle Cardinal and Peter Rose.

Today, the riverfront welcomes over seven million visitors per year. The historical Old Port offers Montrealers and visitors alike access to a wide variety of activities, including the Montréal Science Centre, with an IMAX Theatre, and the Montreal Clock Tower. It offers riverfront access for walking, cycling, roller-blading, quadricycle, pedalo and Segway rentals. It is also located at the eastern end of the Lachine Canal, which has itself been extensively refurbished as a popular destination for cycling, roller-blading and pleasure boating.

The Old Port of Montreal changed its name to The Quays of the Old Port of Montreal in 2005. Every 2 years the Cirque de Soleil launches a new show from the Jacques Cartier Quay.

Shipping has been moved further east to the present Port of Montreal site, leaving the riverside area of Old Port adjacent to Old Montreal as a recreational and historical area.

Palais des congrès de Montréal

The Palais des congrès de Montréal ("Palais" for short) is a convention and exhibition centre located at the north end of Old Montreal, in Montreal's borough of Ville-Marie. The Palais was constructed above the Ville-Marie Expressway, the main underground artery of Montreal’s downtown. It is also connected to the metro system at Place-d'Armes and, by extension, to what is called the underground city.

The Palais des congrès is sometimes called in English the Montreal Convention Centre. Situated in the Quartier international de Montréal, the Palais serves local, Quebec and Canadian organizations for the staging of exhibitions, meetings, banquets and special events.

Quartier des Spectacles

Quartier des Spectacles is an entertainment district located in the eastern section of Downtown Montreal. The area is currently undergoing gentrification and urban renewal that will turn it into the centre for Montreal's cultural events and festivals.

With a total area of almost a square kilometre, its boundaries are City Councillors Street, Berri Street, Sherbrooke Street and René Lévesque Boulevard, encompassing all of the district known as Montreal's Latin Quarter.

The area will be home to 30 performance halls totalling almost 28,000 seats, including the Place des Arts cultural complex, as well as international festivals, art galleries and centres for the exhibition and broadcast of alternative culture. The Quartier des spectacles hosts nearly 8,500 jobs linked to cultural activities, from education and creation to production, exhibition and broadcasting.

Quartier international de Montréal

The Quartier international de Montréal (QIM) or Montreal's International District is a district of the Ville-Marie borough of downtown Montreal that underwent a major urban renewal as a central business district in 2000–2003.

Current projects include the beautification of McGill Street south of Victoria Square towards Old Montreal. There are long-term plans to continue the covering of the Ville-Marie Expressway further east to the currently dilapidated Viger Square behind City Hall, where the new land may be used for expansion of the future mega-hospital Centre hospitalier universitaire de Montréal to be built north of the expressway.

Tourisme Montréal

Tourisme Montréal is a private, non-profit organization, founded in 1919 and incorporated in 1924. It comprises more than 750 members and partners from Montréal’s tourism industry, who share the common goal of promoting the city as a premier travel destination to non-local markets.