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77 unusual facts about Montreal


Albert Tannenbaum

Tannenbaum followed Greenberg first to Montreal and then to Detroit before finally catching up to him in Los Angeles and killing him under the supervision of (and with the assistance of) the Syndicate's West Coast representative, Bugsy Siegel.

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.

Benjamin Pierce Cheney

Cheney joined Nathaniel White and William Walker in 1842 to organize an express line between Boston and Montreal.

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).

Brazilian Top Team Canada

Prior to 2011, the association was headquartered in the Gelinas Academy of Mixed Martial Arts (GAMMA) in downtown Montreal, where Holanda taught and trained.

Burr conspiracy

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

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

Canada's Top 20 Countdown

Canada's Top 20 Countdown is a Canadian weekly syndicated radio chart program based out of Montreal, Quebec.

Cedres

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

Charles-Odilon Beauchemin

Financially unable to remain in school, he spent some time in Montreal with printer John Lovell pursuing his interest in printing and bookbinding.

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.

Damul

Damul was invited for both the competition and participation sections at the Montreal, Chicago and Moscow film festivals.

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.

Departments of the Continental Army

Although the Americans captured Montreal in November 1775, and established their headquarters at Château Ramezay, the region was never entirely under the control of the Continental Army.

Dornier Seastar

In May 2010, Dornier Seaplane announced that it would build the Seastar in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, about half an hour away from Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Errol Crossan

Born in Montreal, Crossan's family moved to the Isle of Man when he was eight, before returning to Canada in 1949, where he began his career with the Marpole Athletic Club.

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.

Frank Porter Wood

In 1899 Frank P Wood moved to Montreal to work at the National Trust, incorporated a year earlier by Cox and his brother Edward Rogers Wood.

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.

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.

Gordon's School

Hannah Russell (attended Gordon's School 2007-2012), British Paralympic Swimming silver medalist in the 2012 Summer Paralympic Games and World Champion at the 2013 IPC Swimming Championships in Montreal, Canada.

Gregory Chamitoff

Gregory Errol Chamitoff (born 6 August 1962 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is an engineer and NASA astronaut.

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.

House of Pride

Each of the families lived in a different Canadian city; the series had production units in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal and Halifax.

James Campbell Clouston

Clouston was born in Montreal, Canada, the son of William Stewart Clouston and Evelyn Campbell.

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.

Jean-Talon railway station

Jean-Talon station replaced the Mile End railway station, which was located near the corner of Saint Laurent Boulevard and Bernard Street.

Jessie Robertson

Robertson was a foundation member (1946) of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Perth, leading the Australian delegation to the seventh international congress at Montreal in 1956.

John Wilson McConnell

As well, he was made a governor of McGill University in 1927 and of the Royal Victoria Hospital the following year, both institutions benefiting greatly from his generosity.

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.

KIMEP University

In 1998 the International Executive Center was created with the help of McGill University, Montreal.

L'Enjoleur

Bred and owned by prominent Montreal businessman Jean-Louis Lévesque, L'Enjoleur was sired by U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee, Buckpasser, a son of another Hall of Famer, Tom Fool.

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.

Les Zapartistes

The group's name comes from the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a Mexican political movement that defends the Chiapas Indians, and from l'Aparté, a small Montreal café where the group was founded.

Leslie McFarlane

As part of the NFB in Montreal, he wrote and directed documentaries and short dramas including the 1951 documentary Royal Journey, Here's Hockey, a 1953 documentary about ice hockey featuring Montreal Canadiens star Jean Beliveau.

M. Wylie Blanchet

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

Maize weevil

It has, however, been present for several years in Montreal, where grain from the U.S. is stored.

Margaret Ridley Charlton

The following year, the British and Canadian medical associations held a joint meeting in Montreal, and it was probably here that Miss Charlton first met Dr. William Osler.

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).

Meals on Wheels

There are dozens of independent meals on wheels in Montreal, one of the largest and most innovative is the unique intergenerational Santropol Roulant, an organisation operated mainly by young volunteers in central Montreal neighbourhoods.

Metaform

After The Breakouts, Metaform met 4X-ampL (who now resides in Montreal) in an audio engineering class.

Michener Award

2009: The Montreal Gazette for reporting on the mismanagement of a water management project in Montreal.

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.

Montreal-Est Rangers

The second game saw the Action playoff against the Fort William North Stars of Thunder Bay, Ontario.

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.

New Hampshire Militia

Regiments of the New Hampshire provincial soldiers were at the Battle of Lake George, the Siege of Fort William Henry, the Siege of Louisbourg (1758), the 1758 Battle of Carillon and the fall of Fort Carillon (subsequently Fort Ticonderoga) in 1759, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the Battle of Sainte-Foy near Quebec, and were present at the final capitulation of New France at Montreal.

New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light

Stetson's parts on New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light were performed and recorded live without overdubs or loops in various studios in Montreal, where he had wanted to use the large rooms to provide more reverb.

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.

Pauline Garon

Born in Montreal, Quebec as Marie Pauline Garon, Garon was the daughter of Pierre and Victoria Garon.

Pierre Bourgault

In his early life, he was a journalist at Montreal newspaper La Presse, and he returned to this publication in the 1990s as a columnist for Le Journal de Montréal newspaper.

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.

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.

Reg Kesler

He supplied stock to rodeos and events across Canada, including the 1967 World Exposition in Montreal, the same year he officially retired from competition, and a number of rodeos across the United States.

Renaud-Bray

The chain began its expansion in 1978, opening other branches in Montreal (on Laurier Avenue, Saint Denis Street, Park Avenue, and Peel Street).

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.

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.

Rose Ouellette

Ouellette was a leading figure of the very popular burlesque and vaudeville genres which dominated the theatrical scene in Montreal from the 1920s until the 1960s.

Rubicon Riders

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

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

See This Movie

The entire film was shot in only thirteen days, in Los Angeles and in Montreal during and with the cooperation of the actual 2003 Montreal World Film Festival.

The Front Runner

The difficult, drawn-out process of their coming out as a couple (and Harlan's as an individual) in the intensely homophobic world of amateur athletics takes up most of the book, throughout which the sport - and particularly Billy's determination to qualify for the 1976 Olympics in Montreal - plays as large a part as the characters' homosexuality.

Tinu Yohannan

Tinu is the son of T. C. Yohannan, a long jumper who held the national record for nearly 3 decades and represented India in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

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.

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.

Vickers Viking

Some Viking amphibians were built by Canadian Vickers Limited, a subsidiary company in Montreal with no previous aircraft manufacturing experience.

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.

William Oliver Rose

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

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. 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.

Billy Gilmour

Gilmour married Merle Woods of Montreal and moved to Paris, France before returning to Canada in 1942 to reside in Mount Royal, Quebec, where he lived for the rest of his life.

Bobby Boucher

Robert Boucher (1904–1931), Canadian ice hockey player who played one season in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens

CECM

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

Ceuta Heliport

Destinations include more than one hundred cities in Europe (mainly in the United Kingdom, Central Europe and the Nordic countries) but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Sofia, Warsaw, Riga and Bucharest), North Africa, the Middle East (Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait) and North America (New York, Toronto and Montreal).

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.

Concrete canoe

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

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.

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.

Dominican University College

L'Institut was founded in 1960 in Montreal, Quebec by the Dominican Order during the construction of the Convent Saint-Albert-le-Grand.

Édouard Woolley

In 1942 Woolley made his professional opera debut as Antonin in Reynaldo Hahn's Ciboulette at Les Variétés lyriques (LVL) in Montreal.

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.

Gary Arbuthnot

Gary Arbuthnot gives regular recitals for Fred Olsen and Cunard Cruise Lines and he has also performed as a soloist at venues including the South Bank Centre in London, the Waterfront Hall in Belfast, Pollack Hall in Montreal and the National Concert Hall in Dublin.

Gerald Heffernan

Gerald "Gerry" Joseph Heffernan (July 24, 1916 in Montreal, Quebec – January 16, 2007 in Moraga, California) was a professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Canadiens in the National Hockey League.

Gert Sabidussi

He moved to Montreal in 1963, and was instrumental in bringing to Canada a number of combinatorialists and graph theorists, including Anton Kotzig, and Jaroslav Nešetřil who wrote a thesis under Sabidussi.

Grundman

Irving Grundman, former general manager of the Montreal Canadiens

Guy Delisle

Delisle studied animation at Sheridan College in Oakville, near Toronto, and then worked for the animation studio CinéGroupe in Montreal.

Gyro tower

Spirale,La Ronde,Montreal,Quebec,Canada (Opened in 1967 double cabin)

Harald Schmid

Schmid won bronze with the 4x400 m relay team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal as well as an individual bronze in 400 m hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 1984.

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.

Lawrence Bergman

He also received several honors for his service among the Jewish Community while he was a council member of the Montreal Jewish Community, an honorary president of the Montreal's Jewish community centres and the director of Magen David Adom for Israel.

Minister responsible for the Laurentides

The minister who holds this position is responsible for overseeing government matters in the Laurentides region, to the northwest of Montreal.

Montreal Chinese Hospital

In 1919 or 1920, the Chinese community in Montreal acquired a former synagogue, to serve as their permanent hospital, located at 112 De la Gauchetière Street (it is now a commercial building), in present day Chinatown.

Montréal Québec Temple

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

Montreal Royals

In 1928, George Stallings, a former Major League Baseball executive and Southern United States plantation owner, formed a partnership with Montreal lawyer and politician, Athanase David, and Montreal businessman, Ernest Savard, to resurrect the Montreal Royals.

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,.

Nepheline syenite

Rocks of this class also occur in Brazil (Serra de Tingua) containing sodalite and often much augite, in the western Sahara and Cape Verde Islands; also at Zwarte Koppies in the Transvaal, Madagascar, São Paulo in Brazil, Paisano Pass in West Texas and Montreal, Canada.

Osadia

Tollwood Festival, Munich / Sydney Mardi Gras, Australia / Trafalgar Square Festival, London, UK / Juste pour rire/Just for laughs, Montreal, Canada / The Esplanade Festival, Singapore / NZ International Festival, Wellington, New Zealand / Kleines Fest im Grossen Garten, Hanover / Daidogei World Cup, Shizuoka, Japan / Hogmanay, Edinburgh, Scotland / Festes de la Mercè, Barcelona

Peter P. Silvester

After a period of industrial practice, he continued his studies at the University of Toronto, obtaining the MASc in 1958, and then at McGill University (Montreal), where he was awarded the PhD in Electrical Engineering, in 1964.

Phyllis Lambert

Her work also includes serving as developer on the restoration of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles by architect Gene Summers as well as designing the Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montreal with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

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.

Quartier des Spectacles

The area is now home to many of Montreal's major festivals, including the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the Francofolies and the Just for Laughs comedy fest.

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.

Repentigny, Quebec

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

Robin Philpot

Philpot has called into question the testimony of Roméo Dallaire on the Rwandan Genocide; his brother is the Montreal lawyer John Philpot, who represented Jean-Paul Akayesu and other defendants accused of genocide and crimes against humanity at the trials conducted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

RPM Challenge

In 2007, several well-known websites and media outlets picked up the story, and participation increased to over 2400 acts from such varied locations as Tokyo, Auckland, Montreal, Antarctica and Oslo.

Tibor Bojati

He won a bronze medal in the K-4 10000 m event at the 1986 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Montreal in a team with Tibor Helyi, László Nieberl and Kálmán Petrovics.

Tomorrow Starts Today

The first two singles were released before the album's release; as well, "Montreal Calling" was available in late 2005 as a track on MuchMusic's Big Shiny Tunes 10 and was also featured on the soundtrack of the EA Sports game NHL 07.

Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831

Also killed was Charles Stone of Montreal, a former co-owner of the Canadian Football League's (CFL) Montreal Alouettes; his death occurred during the CFL's Grey Cup week in Vancouver.

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.

Vladimir Atlantov

In 1967 Atlantov won the first prize at the 3rd International Competition in Sofia and the fourth prize winner at the International competition in Montreal.

Yoko Narahashi

Born in Ichikawa, Chiba, Japan, Narahashi moved to Montreal, Canada in 1952 at the age of five when her father got a job at the International Civil Aviation Organization.