Montreal is a French-speaking metropolis in the New World. The city got its start as the French colony of Ville-Marie and acquired its current name around 1800.
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It is today one of Canada’s most important cultural centres and home to internationally acclaimed acts such as the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and the dance troupe La La La Human Steps. The fascinating, modular housing complex Habitat 67, designed by Moshe Safdie, can be impressively viewed from the St. Lawrence River, the city’s lifeline. The impressive St. Joseph’s Oratory has the second-largest church dome in the world, a wall full of the canes of allegedly healed pilgrims, and in-church escalators as well.
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