Montreal - distinctively different

Montreal - North America's biggest French-speaking city

Montreal is Canada's second city, and the only major French-speaking city  in North America 

Just a few miles north of the US border,  the city of Montreal is built on an island, the Island of Montreal, in the Saint Lawrence river. It is the second largest city in Canada, surpassed only by Toronto, and is one of the world's major French-speaking cities.
  Nothing remains of the original settlements, but the center of Old Montreal has a number of buildings dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in particular the Basilica of Notre Dame de Montréal, built in the gothic-revival style of the first half of the nineteenth century.
  This basilica was the largest church in North America for a good part of the nineteenth century.  
   The oldest building in Old Montreal is the seventeenth-century Saint Sulpice seminary, built in 1684.
    The Old Port of Montreal lies at the edge of the historic area, and is not all old,  apart from the fact that  it was the city's port area for very many years. Stretching along the banks of the Saint Lawrence, it is today it is one of Montreal's main tourist areas, with attractions including the Montreal Science Centre, with its IMAX movie theater, and plenty of cafés and restaurants. It is popular for walking, cycling, roller-blading, and other leisure activities.

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