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Downtown Montreal (French: Centre-Ville de Montréal) is the central business district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The district is situated on the southernmost slope of Mount Royal , and occupies the western portion of the borough of Ville-Marie .
The Peel station on the Montreal Metro's Green Line is located on the corner of Peel and De Maisonneuve Blvd. West, and opened on October 14, 1966. Peel Street is served by the Societé de transport de Montréal 's 107 Verdun bus route, which runs the entire length of the street from Pine Avenue to Wellington Street.
Montreal has a small but active Chinatown just south of downtown, featuring many Chinese shops and restaurants, as well as a number of Vietnamese establishments. Several of these restaurants offer dim sum from as early as 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and can be quite crowded, especially on Sundays.
According to the Quebec Toponymy Commission, the street is named after Mount Royal. A 1761 map shows a trail at the location of the current street called chemin des Sauvages de la montagne. It is also found under the name chemin de la Montagne in later maps, such as the map by surveyor Jean Péladeau in 1778. [1] Rue de la Montagne, downtown.
Bishop Street (officially in French: rue Bishop) is a north–south street located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. With a total length of 0.6 km, it links Sherbrooke Street in the north to René Lévesque Boulevard in the south. Like neighbouring Crescent Street, Bishop is home to many pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants.
Dorchester Street, Montreal, in 1911 Queen Elizabeth Hotel and Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral, looking east. From the time of its formal naming in 1844, the street was known as "Dorchester Boulevard" in honour of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724–1808), Governor of the Province of Quebec and Governor General of Canada .
Saint Laurent Boulevard, also known as Saint Lawrence Boulevard (officially in French: boulevard Saint-Laurent), is a major street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.A commercial artery and cultural heritage site, the street runs north west–south east through the near-centre of city and is nicknamed The Main (French: La Main), which is the abbreviation for "Main Street".
Victoria Square is a town square and public space in the Quartier International de Montréal (also called the International Quarter) area of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at the intersection of Beaver Hall Hill and McGill Street. The Square forms an integral component of the city's urban public transit system and constitutes a 'prestige ...