Things you might not know about Montreal
- Montreal is an island city.
- Americans captured Montreal in 1775 during the American Revolutionary War.
- Montreal was the capital of Canada during the years 1844-9.
- Montreal was primarily Anglophone during the middle of the 19th century (reflected on the Montreal flag, bearing the fleur de lys, of the Royal House of Bourbon, representing the French, a Lancastrian rose, representing the English, a shamrock, representing the Irish, and a thistle, representing the Scottish).
- Montreal was Canada's largest city from 1860 until sometime in the second half of the 20th century.
- During prohibition in the States, Montreal was a haven for drinking, gambling and prostitution.
- Montreal hosted th 1967 World Expo.
- In 1967 Charles De Gaulle pissed off the Canadian government by shouting pro-Quebec sovereignty movement stuff from atop Montreal's town hall. This marked the beginning of a large exodus of Anglophones to Toronto from Montreal.
- Montreal hosted the 1976 Olympic games, at which 28 African nations boycotted because New Zealand attended and was still playing rugby with apartheid South Africa.
- Montreal payed off its 1976 Olympic Stadium in December 2006 (Despi
te initial projections in 1970 that the stadium would cost only C$134 million to construct, strikes and construction delays served to escalate these costs. By the time the stadium opened, in an unfinished form, the total costs had risen to C$264 million). - Montreal was named after the Island of Montreal, which in turn was named after Mount Royal.
- William Shatner, Leonard Cohen, and Celine Dion are all Montreal natives.
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