municipalities

My Montreal: Westmount & Other Quebec Curios

November 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

View of Greene Steet in Westmount. Photo credit: Gene.arboit/Wikimedia Comons.

Back in the day (as in the 1700s), it was known as as a little town named Cote St. Antoine. Then, in 1895, it was renamed Westmount. Chartered to become a city at the turn of [read on]

My Montreal: TMI on TMR & Other Quebec Curios

October 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

Aerial view of the town of Mount Royal. Photo credit: Town of Mount Royal/The Montreal Gazette

On our next stop in places to live in Montreal, we stop by Mont-Royal.

Montreal Merger Madness & Other Quebec Curios

July 9, 2015 // 0 Comments

Before Montreal got merged and demerged and remerged, we had this. A 1744 map of Montreal, drawn by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin. Source: National Archives of Canada/Wikimedia Commons.

A new series in Quebec Curios, we discover various boroughs and municipalities in Montreal.