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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.
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The timeline of Montreal history is a chronology of significant events in the history of Montreal, Canada's second-most populated city, with about 3.5 million residents in 2018, [1] and the fourth-largest French-speaking city in the world.
Max Werner – founder of Montreal Pastry, world class pastry chef; Alissa White-Gluz – singer-songwriter; former vocalist of The Agonist; current vocalist of Arch Enemy; Trevor C. Williams – former member of the Canadian national basketball team; philanthropist; Cairine Wilson – first woman to serve in the Senate of Canada
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.
The largest cities in Greater Montreal [6]; Rank City Region Population (2016) Land Area Population Density km 2 mi 2 /km 2 /mi 2; 1 Montreal: Montreal: 1,704,694 365.13