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A Ford Shelby GR-1 from the 2007 show. The Montreal International Auto Show (French: Le Salon International de l'Auto de Montréal) is an annual auto show held for 10 days in mid-to-late January in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It usually takes place at the Palais des congrès de Montréal. [1]
It is the second oldest community in Montreal's West Island, having been founded as a parish in 1703. The oldest, Dorval , was founded in 1667. Points of interest include the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal (a National Historic Site of Canada ), the Sainte-Anne Veterans' Hospital, the Morgan Arboretum , and the L'Anse-à-l'Orme Nature Park.
Beaconsfield is a suburb on the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, part of the Greater Montreal region locally referred to as the West Island.It is a residential community located on the north shore of Lac Saint-Louis, bordered on the west by Baie-D'Urfé, north by Kirkland and east by Pointe-Claire.
Baie-D'Urfé is named after François-Saturnin Lascaris d'Urfé, a French Sulpician priest known as l'Abbé d'Urfé. [8] He was the community's first pastor, who was sent by the Gentlemen of Saint-Sulpice to serve as a missionary for the parish of Saint-Louis-du-Bout-de-l'Île (which was later renamed in his honour), a small community of settlers, soldiers, traders, and Indians.
Beaconsfield–Baie-D'Urfé is a former borough in the West Island area of Montreal, Quebec. It was composed of the municipalities of Beaconsfield and Baie-D'Urfé through a forced merger on January 1, 2002. On June 20, 2004, both Beaconsfield and Baie-D'Urfé voted to return to being independent municipalities, effective January 1, 2006.
Fort Senneville as it appeared in 1895 when photographed by William Notman & Sons. The history of human settlement in the West Island of Montréal likely predated European colonization which began in the early to mid 17th century, but little is known of the history of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians who inhabited the island in the pre-colonial era.
It is composed of the former municipalities of Pierrefonds and Roxboro, spanning the northern part of the West Island.Besides its land borders with the borough of L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève, as well as the boroughs of Saint-Laurent and Ahuntsic-Cartierville to the east, it borders the municipalities of Senneville, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Kirkland, and Dollard-des-Ormeaux.
Pierrefonds (Quebec French pronunciation: [pjaɛ̯ʁˈfõ]) is a former city in southwestern Quebec, Canada.It is located along the Rivière des Prairies on the northwestern part of the Island of Montreal (part of what is colloquially called the West Island).