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Mount Royal (French: Mont Royal, IPA: [mɔ̃ ʁwajal]) is a mountain in the city of Montreal, immediately west of Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The city's name is derived from the mountain's name. [1] The mountain is part of the Monteregian Hills situated between the Laurentians and the Appalachian Mountains.
Mount Royal (French: Mont-Royal [mɔ̃ ʁwajal], officially Town of Mount Royal, French: Ville de Mont-Royal, abbreviated TMR, French: VMR) is an affluent on-island suburban town located on the northwest side of the eponymous Mount Royal, northwest of Downtown Montreal, on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada.
The first definition of the Monteregian Hills came about in 1903 when Montreal geologist Frank Dawson Adams began referring to Mount Royal (Latin, Mons Regius) and mountains of similar geology in the Saint Lawrence Lowlands as the "Royal Mountains" (French: montagnes royales). [1]
The city is geographically constrained, with the majority on the Island of Montreal in the Hochelaga Archipelago, and has several prominent features, including the eponymous Mount Royal. The region experiences four distinct seasons and is classified as a humid continental climate, with very cold and snowy winters and warm and humid summers.
Montreal [a] is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the ninth-largest in North America.Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", [18] it is now named after Mount Royal, [19] the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. [20]
Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography (also known as AP Human Geo, AP Geography, APHG, AP HuGe, AP HuG, AP Human, HuGS, AP HuGo, or HGAP) is an Advanced Placement social studies course in human geography for high school, usually freshmen students in the US, culminating in an exam administered by the College Board.
Among the hypotheses concerning the origin of Montreal's name, the most acceptable to toponymy is the one that finds it to be a variant of Mount Royal. [1] In the 16th century réal was a variant of royal, hence the contraction of Mont Royal that gave Mont Réal or Montreal.
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal (French pronunciation: [lə plato mɔ̃ ʁwajal]) is a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The borough takes its name from its location on a plateau , on the eastern side of Mount Royal and overlooking downtown Montreal , across its southern border.