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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]
Ottawa Central Railway (formerly Canadian National Railway - rail removed but structure still there) 45°36′48″N 76°40′17″W / 45.6134°N 76.6714°W / 45.6134; -76 Pont Des Allumettes Bridge
The 84 kilometres (52 mi) railway, Ottawa's first to outside markets, was initially used to ship lumber collected on the Ottawa River for further shipping along the St. Lawrence to markets in the United States and Montreal. [1] Bytown became Ottawa in 1855, and the railway changed its name to match, becoming the Ottawa and Prescott Railway (O&PR).
Kijiji was launched in February 2005 in Quebec City and Montreal, and expanded across the rest of Canada in November 2005. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In May 2005, eBay acquired the British-based online classifieds service Gumtree , [ 13 ] which operates in cities in the United Kingdom , Ireland , Poland , Hong Kong , South Africa , Australia and New Zealand ...
Map of boroughs & neighbourhoods on the island of Montreal. 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.
Ottawa [a] is the capital city of Canada.It is located in the southern portion of the province of Ontario, at the meeting of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River.Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region (NCR). [13]
The route west from Montreal has been called the 'first Trans-Canada Highway'. It ran from near Montreal, up the Ottawa River, west up the Mattawa River to Trout Lake and over the 7 mile La Vase portage at what is now North Bay on Lake Nipissing and down the French River to Georgian Bay of Lake Huron.
(The Gatineau River flows south into the Ottawa River which flows east to the St Lawrence River near Montreal.) The log-filled Ottawa River, as viewed from Hull, appeared on the back of the Canadian one-dollar bill until it was replaced by a dollar coin (the "loonie") in 1987, and the last of the dwindling activity of the draveurs on these ...