Montréal is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-largest city in Canada. Montréal was the largest city in Canada up until the 1970s. Originally called Ville-Marie ('City of Mary'), the city takes its present name from Mount Royal, the three-headed hill at the heart of the city, whose name was also initially given to the island on which the city is located, or Mont Réal as it was spelled in French.
The official language of Montréal is French, which made Montréal the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris.
Montréal, Canada's cultural capital is located in the southwest of the province of Québec, approximately 275 kilometres (168 miles) southwest of Québec City, the provincial capital, and 167 kilometres (104 mi) east of Ottawa, the federal capital. It also lies 502 kilometres (312 mi) northeast of Toronto, 407 kilometres (253 mi) northwest of Boston and 530 kilometres (329 mi) directly north of New York City.
The city is located on the central and eastern portions of the Island of Montréal at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. The port of Montréal lies at one end of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, which is the river gateway that stretches from the Great Lakes into the Atlantic Ocean. Montréal is defined by its location in between the St. Lawrence river on its south, and by the Rivière des Prairies on its north. The city is named after the most prominent geographical feature on the island, a three-head hill called Mount Royal.
Cute little Crepe place in the corner of the old Montreal, Mommy is not in the picture, because her face is as red as the cider on the table.
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