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According to Statistics Canada, at the time of the 2011 Canadian census the city of Montreal proper had 1,649,519 inhabitants. [5] A total of 3,824,221 lived in the Montreal Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) at the same 2011 census, up from 3,635,556 at the 2006 census (within 2006 CMA boundaries), which means a population growth rate of +5.2% between 2006 and 2011. [6]
Montreal [a] is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the ninth-largest in North America.It was founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", [19] and is now named after Mount Royal, [20] the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. [21]
In 1666, 56 percent of the population were newcomers to Montreal; by 1681, 66% of Montreal was native-born. [23] There was a male to female sex ratio of 163:100 in 1666, by 1681 it was 133:100. [23] Although, the population of Montreal was still dominated by males, the female population grew.
1535 – September 19, Cartier starts his journey from Quebec City to Montreal, while in search of a passage to Asia. 1535 – Cartier visits Hochelaga on October 2, claiming the St. Lawrence Valley for France. [8] He becomes the first European to reach the area now known as Montréal. Cartier estimates the population to be "over a thousand".
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 province. A smaller area of 3,838 square kilometres (1,482 sq mi) is governed by the Montreal Metropolitan Community ( MMC ; French : Communauté ...
Black Canadians, numbering 198,610, make up 11.3% of Montreal's population, as of 2021, and are the largest visible minority group in the city. [1] The majority of Black Canadians are of Caribbean and of continental African origin, though the population also includes African American immigrants and their descendants (including Black Nova Scotians) [2]
The following people who were born, raised or have been long-time residents of Montreal or the Greater Montreal Area. Note: Laval, Longueuil, Brossard, Westmount, Côte Saint-Luc and Dollard-des-Ormeaux are municipalities in the province of Quebec with their own categories.
On the island of Montreal, the francophone majority dropped to 46.96% by 2011, [8] a net decline since the 1970s owing to francophone outmigration to more affluent suburbs in Laval and the South Shore (fr. Rive-Sud) and an influx of allophone immigrants. The anglophones account for 16.64% of the population and the allophones 35.24%.