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Atlantic. UTC−04:00. UTC−03:00. Atlantic. UTC−03:30. UTC−02:30. Newfoundland. Canada is divided into six time zones. Most areas of the country's provinces and territories operate on standard time from the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March and daylight saving time the rest of the year.
Montreal[ a ] ( French: Montréal[ b ]) is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-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 hill around which the early settlement was built. [ 20 ]
Coordinates: 45°30′N 73°40′W. Montreal. Area codes 514, 438, and 263 are telephone area codes of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Montreal and most of its on-island suburbs, specifically the Island of Montreal and Île Perrot in the Canadian province of Quebec . Area code 514 was one of the original North American area codes ...
Greater Montreal (French: Grand Montréal) is the most populous metropolitan area in Quebec and the second most populous in Canada after Greater Toronto. In 2015, Statistics Canada identified Montreal 's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) as 4,258.31 square kilometres (1,644.14 sq mi) with a population of 4,027,100, [ 5 ] almost half that of the ...
Montreal is located in the southwest of the province of Quebec, approximately 275 km (171 mi) southwest of Quebec City, the provincial capital, and 167 km (104 mi) east of Ottawa, the federal capital. It also lies 502 km (312 mi) northeast of Toronto, 407 km (253 mi) northwest of Boston and 530 km (330 mi) directly north of New York City.
Administrative regions are used to organize the delivery of provincial government services. They were also the basis of organization for regional conferences of elected officers (French: conférences régionales des élus, CRÉ), with the exception of the Montérégie and Nord-du-Québec regions, which each had three CRÉs or equivalent bodies.
Urban agglomeration of Montreal. / 45.500°N 73.567°W / 45.500; -73.567. The urban agglomeration of Montreal ( French: agglomération de Montréal) is an urban agglomeration in Quebec, Canada. Coextensive with the administrative region of Montréal, it is a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and a census ...
The Eastern Time Zone ( ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico . Places that use: Eastern Standard Time ( EST ), when observing standard time (autumn/winter), are five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC−05:00 ...