Montreal (can)

Montreal

Montreal ranks 47th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Constantinople, Hamburg, and Kyiv. Memorable people born in Montreal include Ralph M. Steinman, Eric Berne, and Sidney Altman. Memorable people who died in Montreal include Rick Genest, Étienne Desmarteau, and Lhasa de Sela. Montreal has been the birth place of many actors, and athletes and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Montreal is located in Canada.

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is 196 km (122 mi) east of the national capital, Ottawa, and 258 km (160 mi) southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. Read more on Wikipedia