Montreal - Downtown Montreal. Downtown Montreal lies at the foot of Mount Royal, which is designated as a major urban park. The Downtown area contains dozens of notable skyscrapers — which, by law, cannot be higher than Mount Royal — including the aforementioned 1000 de La Gauchetière and 1250 René-Lévesque, as well as Ieoh Ming Pei's Place Ville-Marie. The Tour de la bourse is also a significant building in Montreal, as it's where all stock and derivative trades take place (Montreal World trade centre), and is also home to a successful ...

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Montreal, Montreal - History, Montreal - City government, Montreal - Climate, Montreal - Demographics, Montreal - Religion, Montreal - Economy, Montreal - Places in Montreal, Montreal - Downtown Montreal, Montreal - Old Montreal, Montreal - Griffintown, Montreal - Olympic Village, Montreal - Museums and Cultural Centres, Montreal - Religious Sanctuaries, Montreal - Chinatown, Montreal - The Gay Village, Montreal - The Plateau, Montreal - Mile End, Montreal - Mount Royal, Montreal - Night Life, Montreal - Strip Clubs, Montreal - Sports, Montreal - Major Sports Venues, Montreal - Current professional franchises, Montreal - Former professional franchises, Montreal - Transportation, Montreal - Public Transit, Montreal - Airports, Montreal - Roads, Montreal - Culture, Montreal - Music, Montreal - Education, Montreal - Universities, Montreal - Neighbouring Municipalities, Montreal - Notes

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Montreal, Montreal - History, Montreal - City government, Montreal - Climate, Montreal - Demographics, Montreal - Religion, Montreal - Economy, Montreal - Places in Montreal, Montreal - Downtown Montreal, Montreal - Old Montreal, Montreal - Griffintown, Montreal - Olympic Village, Montreal - Museums and Cultural Centres, Montreal - Religious Sanctuaries, Montreal - Chinatown, Montreal - The Gay Village, Montreal - The Plateau, Montreal - Mile End, Montreal - Mount Royal, Montreal - Night Life, Montreal - Sports, Montreal - Major Sports Venues, Montreal - Current professional franchises, Montreal - Former professional franchises, Montreal - Transportation, Montreal - Public Transit, Montreal - Airports, Montreal - Roads, Montreal - Culture, Montreal - English-language Music, Montreal - Education, Montreal - Universities, Montreal - Neighbouring Municipalities, Montreal - Notes

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Montreal - Downtown Montreal. Downtown Montreal lies at the foot of Mount Royal, which is designated as a major urban park. The Downtown area contains dozens of notable skyscrapers — which, by law, cannot be higher than Mount Royal — including the aforementioned 1000 de La Gauchetière and 1250 René-Lévesque, as well as Ieoh Ming Pei's Place Ville-Marie. The Tour de la bourse is also a significant building in Montreal, as it's where all stock and derivative trades take place (Montreal World trade centre), a ...

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Montreal, Montreal - History, Montreal - City government, Montreal - Climate, Montreal - Demographics, Montreal - Religion, Montreal - Economy, Montreal - Places in Montreal, Montreal - Downtown Montreal, Montreal - Old Montreal, Montreal - Griffintown, Montreal - Olympic Village, Montreal - Museums and Cultural Centres, Montreal - Religious Sanctuaries, Montreal - Chinatown, Montreal - The Gay Village, Montreal - The Plateau, Montreal - Mile End, Montreal - Mount Royal, Montreal - Night Life, Montreal - Sports, Montreal - Major Sports Venues, Montreal - Current professional franchises, Montreal - Former professional franchises, Montreal - Transportation, Montreal - Public Transit, Montreal - Airports, Montreal - Roads, Montreal - Culture, Montreal - English-language Music, Montreal - Education, Montreal - Universities, Montreal - Neighbouring Municipalities, Montreal - Notes

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Victoria Square (in French, Square-Victoria) is a town square in the Quartier international de Montréal (also called the International District) area of Montreal, Quebec, Canada at the intersection of Beaver Hall Hill and McGill Street. The square has existed since 1813. It was renamed for Queen Victoria for the visit of then-Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) Previously a simple empty area, Victoria Square was restored to its current configuration in 2002 and 2003. It features Hector Guimard's Art Nouveau outdoor entrance to the Square-Victoria Metro station, a ...

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The Montreal Biodome is a facility located in Montreal that allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas: a tropical forest, a Laurentian forest, an estuary habitat modeled on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, and a polar area divided into Arctic and Antarctic zones. All the exhibits are housed inside the Velodrome (cycling stadium) that was used for the 1976 Summer Olympics, with each of the four environments taking up a portion of the stadium. A variety of animals live in each simulated habitat, ranging from macaws in the tropical forest to lynx in t ...

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The Champ de Mars is a large public green-space in Paris, France, located in the 7th arrondissement, between the Eiffel Tower to the northwest and the École Militaire to the southeast. The name means "Field of Mars", from Mars the Roman god of war, because it was originally used for military training. It was probably named after the Campus Martius of Rome. During the French Revolution, the Champ de Mars was the setting of the Fête de la Fédération, on the 14 July 1790. It was also the setting of a massacre on ...

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• Champ de Mars - Montreal

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The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, were held in 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. These are the summer Olympic Games organized by the International Olympic Committee. 1976 Summer Olympics - Highlights. Canada, the host country, left with only five silver and six bronze medals. It was the first, and to date only, time in Olympic history that the host country of the Summer Games won no gold medals. This feat had occurred previously on ...

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• 1976 Summer Olympics - Highlights
• 1976 Summer Olympics - Medals awarded
• 1976 Summer Olympics - Medal count
• 1976 Summer Olympics - Nations
• 1976 Summer Olympics - Montreal - Host City
• 1976 Summer Olympics - Selection
• 1976 Summer Olympics - The Olympics in Canada
• 1976 Summer Olympics - The Olympics in Montreal
• 1976 Summer Olympics - The Olympics after Montreal

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Aircraft hijacking (also known as Skyjacking) is the take-over of an aircraft, by a person or group, usually armed. Unlike the hijacking of land vehicles, it is usually not perpetrated in order to rob the cargo. Rather, most aircraft hijackings are committed to use the passengers as hostages in an effort to obtain transportation to a given location, to hold them for ransom, or, as in the case of the American planes that were hijacked to Cuba during the 1970s, the release of comrades being held in prison. Another common motive i ...

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• Aircraft hijacking - Background
• Aircraft hijacking - Partial list of hijackings
• Aircraft hijacking - Prevention
• Aircraft hijacking - International law issues
• Aircraft hijacking - Tokyo Convention
• Aircraft hijacking - Hague Aircraft Hijacking Convention
• Aircraft hijacking - Montreal Convention

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The band's style has been known to change very much between albums. At first, the band embraced a more simple, quirky lo-fi indie pop sound, which occasionally bordered on twee pop. As time passed, the band moved to a more grandiose sound, as seen on the grand conceptual The Gay Parade, and its even more ambitious follow up, Coquelicot Asleep In the Poppies: A Variety of Whimsical Verse. These albums contain more narrative lyrics, as opposed to the rather personal lyrical matter of those preceding it, and the change in style re ...

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Of Montreal, Of Montreal - Style, Of Montreal - Side projects, Of Montreal - Discography, Of Montreal - Albums, Of Montreal - Videos, Of Montreal - Compilations, Of Montreal - E.P.s, Of Montreal - Singles/Songles

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The Bank of Montreal is Canada's oldest chartered bank and began business in 1817. It has been referred to as BMO or Canada's First Bank. The Bank opened in Montreal, Quebec on November 3, 1817. For the first few years of its existence, the Bank occupied a small building on Saint Paul Street. John Grey, a retired dry goods merchant, was the first President of the Bank of Montreal and ...

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Bank of Montreal, Bank of Montreal - History, Bank of Montreal - Mergers, Bank of Montreal - Operations, Bank of Montreal - Corporate governance, Bank of Montreal - Headquarters, Bank of Montreal - Recent mergers and merger attempts, Bank of Montreal - Purchase of Harris Bankcorp 1984, Bank of Montreal - Proposed merger with RBC 1998, Bank of Montreal - Membership, Bank of Montreal - External link

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The Montreal Casino is a casino located on the Ile Notre-Dame in Montreal. The casino consists of three buildings. Two of these, the French Pavilion and the Quebec Pavilion, were built for Expo 67. The third building is an annex built by the casino. The main building has five floors. There are over 3000 slot machines and over 100 gaming tables in the casino. The casino also contains four restaurants, four bars, a ...

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Montreal Casino, Montreal Casino - Overview, Montreal Casino - Games, Montreal Casino - Ownership, Montreal Casino - Future plans

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The planetarium was inaugurated on April 1, 1966 by then-Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau. Its inaugural show, "New Skies for a New City", premiered on April 4, 1966. Work had commenced on the project more than three years before, under the guidance of Dr. Pierre Gendron, a former professor of chemistry and founding Dean of the Faculty of Science at the University of Ottawa, who was an avid amateur astronomer. The architects on the project were David-Barott-Boulva. The chosen design had an astronomical theme, and the exterior of the ...

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Montreal Planetarium, Montreal Planetarium - History, Montreal Planetarium - Original name, Montreal Planetarium - Today, Montreal Planetarium - Tomorrow, Montreal Planetarium - External link

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The Bourse began in 1832 as an informal stock exchange at the Exchange Coffee House in Montreal, Canada. In 1873, Lorn MacDougall, along with his brothers, Hartland St Clair MacDougall and George Campbell MacDougall, James Burnett and Frank Bond were the driving force behind the creation of the Montreal Stock Exchange. At the time of its formal creation under Charter and opening in 1874, the shareholders voted Lorn MacDougall its first Chairman of the Governing Committee, a position he held un ...

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Montreal Exchange, Montreal Exchange - History, Montreal Exchange - External link

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Old Montreal itself is a major tourist draw; with the oldest of its buildings dating to the 1600s, it is one of the oldest urban areas in North America. In the eastern part of the old city, near Place Jacques-Cartier, are found such important buildings as Montreal City Hall, Bonsecours Market, and Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours chapel, as well as preserved colonial mansions such as the Château Ramezay and the Sir George-Étienne Cartier National Historic Site of Canada. To the north of City Hall, the Champ de Mars preserves the foundations of Montreal's city walls, built in 1717 a ...

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Old Montreal, Old Montreal - History, Old Montreal - Features, Old Montreal - See Also

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BMO Bank of Montreal is one division within BMO Financial Group: BMO Bank of Montreal — banking services BMO Harris — US operations BMO InvestorLine BMO Life BMO Nesbitt Burns The bank's stock is listed on both the Toronto and New York stock exchanges under the symbol BMO . Bank of Montreal - Corporate governance. Current members of the board of directors of BMO are: Robert Astley, Stephen Bachand, David Beatty, Robert Chevrier, Anthony Com ...

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Bank of Montreal, Bank of Montreal - History, Bank of Montreal - Mergers, Bank of Montreal - Operations, Bank of Montreal - Corporate governance, Bank of Montreal - Headquarters, Bank of Montreal - Recent mergers and merger attempts, Bank of Montreal - Purchase of Harris Bankcorp 1984, Bank of Montreal - Proposed merger with RBC 1998, Bank of Montreal - Membership, Bank of Montreal - External link

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The following table games are offered: Blackjack Baccarat Roulette Touch Bet Roulette Caribbean Stud Poker Pai Gow Poker Grand Prix Poker (Let It Ride) Three card poker Craps Sic Bo Casino War The casino also offers Royal Ascot electronic racetracks, two Keno lounges, tournaments and mini-tournaments, ...

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Montreal Casino, Montreal Casino - Overview, Montreal Casino - Games, Montreal Casino - Ownership, Montreal Casino - Future plans

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The Montreal Metro runs entirely underground and was the first metro in the world to exclusively use rubber tires instead of steel wheels. As noted in the STM official document, The Montreal Métro, a source of pride, the Metro runs entirely underground because at the time of its initial planning in the early 1960s rubber-tired metro technology was unable to operate in heavy winter conditions. Conception of the first generation of rolling-stock in Montreal went beyond just ...

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Montreal Metro, Montreal Metro - History, Montreal Metro - Dates and Distances, Montreal Metro - Trains, Montreal Metro - Design, Montreal Metro - Operation, Montreal Metro - Metro Lines

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Unlike in many cities, the precise location of the first town site is well-known: on and adjacent to the present Place d'Youville, where the Pointe-à-Callière archeological museum now stands. Eventually, Montreal became a fortified city, with the city walls' former location marking the modern boundaries of Old Montreal. The area used to be the city's downtown, with Saint James Street synonymous with the Canadian banking industry, much as Toronto's Bay Street is today. Until the disappearance of streetcars, Place d'Armes ...

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Old Montreal, Old Montreal - History, Old Montreal - Features, Old Montreal - See Also

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Montreal Expos - Creation of the franchise. In 1960, Montreal lost its International League team, the Montreal Royals (an affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers). The move to get a new team for the city was led by Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau and councilman Jerry Snyder of Snowdon. They worked to create the Expos in conjunction with Montreal's 1967 World's Fair, Expo 67 (hence the team name). The first owner was Charles Bronfman of the Seagrams whisky empire. The Expos debuted in the Major Leagues in 1969, two years after Expo 67. This marked the first time in its long ...

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Montreal Expos, Montreal Expos - Franchise history, Montreal Expos - Creation of the franchise, Montreal Expos - Social impact of the Expos, Montreal Expos - The team, Montreal Expos - The 1994 season: hope and disappointment, Montreal Expos - The final decade, Montreal Expos - Historic games, Montreal Expos - Baseball Hall of Famers, Montreal Expos - Retired numbers, Montreal Expos - Some notable broadcasters

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Since the Montreal Protocol came into effect, the atmospheric concentrations of the most important chloroflurocarbons and related chlorinated hydrocarbons have either levelled off or decreased [2]. Halon concentrations have continued to increase, as the halons presently stored in fire extinguishers are released, but their rate of increase has slowed and their abundances are expected to begin to decline by about 2020. While there have been reports of attempts by individuals to circumvent the ban, e.g. by smuggling CFCs from undeveloped to dev ...

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Montreal Protocol, Montreal Protocol - Terms and purpose, Montreal Protocol - Scientific Background, Montreal Protocol - Developing Countries, Montreal Protocol - Parties, Montreal Protocol - Impact

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