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  2. List of city and town halls in Canada - Wikipedia

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    Toronto - Toronto City Hall (Old City Hall (Toronto), Etobicoke Civic Centre, North York Civic Centre, Scarborough Civic Centre, St. Lawrence Market, Yorkville Town Hall) Ingersoll - Ingersoll Town Hall

  3. List of city nicknames and slogans in Canada - Wikipedia

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    "Toronto the Good" from its history as a bastion of 19th century Victorian morality and coined by mayor William Holmes Howland [177] An 1898 book by C.S. Clark was titled Of Toronto the Good. A Social Study. [178] The Queen City of Canada As It Is. The book is a facsimile of an 1898 edition.

  4. Quebec French phonology - Wikipedia

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    [1] /a/ is not diphthongized, but some speakers pronounce it [æ] if it is in a closed syllable or an unstressed open syllable, [2] as in French of France. The pronunciation in final open syllables is always phonemically /ɑ/, but it is phonetically [ɑ] or [ɔ] (Canada [kanadɑ] ⓘ or [kanadɔ] ⓘ), the latter being informal.

  5. Montreal City Hall - Wikipedia

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    The five-story Montreal City Hall (French: Hôtel de Ville de Montréal, pronounced [otɛl də vil də mɔ̃ʁeal]) is the seat of local government in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was designed by architects Henri-Maurice Perrault and Alexander Cowper Hutchison, and built between 1872 and 1878 in the Second Empire style .

  6. Quebec English - Wikipedia

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    A sweet carbonated beverage is commonly referred to as a "pop" in many parts of Canada, but in Montreal, it is a "soda" or "soft drink." [ 9 ] A straight translation of the French liqueur douce . A formation - this word in English would normally mean a routine stance used in a professional formation.

  7. Canadian English - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, Anglophones pronounce the final d as in Bernard and Bouchard; the word Montreal is pronounced as an English word and Rue Lambert-Closse is known as Clossy Street (vs French /klɔs/). In the city of Montreal, especially in some of the western suburbs like Côte-St-Luc and Hampstead, there is a strong Jewish influence in the ...

  8. O Canada - Wikipedia

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    O Canada" (French: Ô Canada) is the national anthem of Canada. The song was originally commissioned by Lieutenant Governor of Quebec Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony; Calixa Lavallée composed the music, after which French-language words were written by the poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier .

  9. Toronto City Hall - Wikipedia

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    The Toronto City Hall, or New City Hall, is the seat of the municipal government of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and one of the city's most distinctive landmarks. Designed by Viljo Revell and engineered by Hannskarl Bandel , the building opened in 1965.