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Tourism is an important industry in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The city welcomed 10.2 million overnight visitors in 2016 [1] and 11,792,970 day trip visitors in 2010. [2] Montreal attracted 1,770,939 international overnight visitors in 2010, [2] most of them from the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico and Japan.
A noted example of French Gothic Revival architecture in the country; built to serve one of the largest early influxes of Irish immigrants to what is now Canada, the heart of the Irish population of Montreal, and the location of the funeral of Thomas D’Arcy McGee in 1868 Sulpician Towers / Fort de la Montagne [62] 1694 (completed) 1970 Montreal
For decades until 2020, the main Montreal Tourism office occupied the southeast corner of the ground floor (facing Dorchester Square). Offices of The Gazette. Between 2003 and late 2019, the principal tenant was the Montreal Gazette, which had placed a marquee title holder atop the arcaded entrance along Saint Catherine Street.
On November 4, 2006, numbering plan area 514 was overlaid with area code 438, which required ten-digit dialing for all subscribers in the Montreal area, even for local calls. By then, overlays had become the preferred relief measure in Canada, as they affect existing subscribers the least and provide a workaround for the number allocation problem.
The head office of Bell Canada is located on the northern tip of Nuns' Island. Verdun was historically a chiefly residential area, however, the late 1990s and 2000s saw a gradual revival of the Wellington Street commercial artery, with several shops, restaurants, and cafés opening.
There are 22 World Heritage Sites in Canada, including one of the oldest, Nahanni National Park, Northwest Territories (1978), and one of the newest, the Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta (2019).
Over the years, the Port of Montreal expanded eastward along the waterfront. In 1978, the Port of Montreal ceded the area now known as the Old Port to the Old Port of Montreal Corporation, a public corporation responsible for developing tourism and recreational activities in the area. The site is a tourist attraction, featuring museums ...
Bank of Montreal National Historic Site is an historic former bank branch in Montreal.Built in 1894 in sandstone on the corners of rue Notre Dame Ouest and rue des Seigneurs, this building was named a National Historic Site of Canada in 1990 because: