About the city of Montreal

Home of the Montreal Canadiens, a leading railway’s headquarters and a Montreal web design company; museums, shopping and an underground city; Montreal is a city rich in history and culture and has many things to offer from both an economic, as well as a tourist standpoint; all this without even leaving the downtown core.

“Ville-Marie”
Founded in 1642 and incorporated in 1832; Montreal, originally called “Ville-Marie”, is today named for the tripled-peak hill “Mont-Royal” situated in the heart of the city. This island, located in the south west of the province of Quebec, is at the junction of the Saint-Lawrence and the Ottawa Rivers. Montreal’s port, positioned at one extremity of the Saint-Lawrence seaway is a gateway extending from the Great Lakes into the Atlantic Ocean; the access to the wide open waters significantly contributes to the city’s economy.

Languages
Over 50% of Montreal’s population speak French at home; making Montreal the second largest mainly French speaking city in the world, after Paris.

Boroughs
There are 19 large boroughs in Montreal which are subdivided into smaller neighbourhoods; the Ville-Marie neighbourhood encompasses the downtown core; Montreal’s famous Old Montreal, Chinatown, the Latin Quarter, the Cité de la Multimédia and the Quartier des spectacles. Unaided, the Ville Marie district will keep you busy for days; the Old Port, Montreal’s City Hall, the Pointe-à-Callière Museum, pubs and restaurants. When the summer heat soars, take cover in Montreal’s extensive underground: stores, movie theatres and coolness!

Port of Montreal
The largest inland port in the world; the Port of Montreal processes over 26 million tonnes of cargo annually; sugar, grain, petroleum, machinery and consumer goods make their way through this Port which turned Montreal into a significant railway metropolis.

Economy
Based on GDP, the city of Montreal ranks second in Canada and is the leader in Quebec; Montreal is a major technological, commercial, financial, industrial, cultural and world affairs centre; since 1997, the video game industry is booming in Montreal. Several companies are headquartered in Montreal such as CAE, Bell Canada, Canadian National Railway, Molson and Standard Life; as well as the gaming industry, web site design and Internet marketing companies make their home in downtown Montreal.

Adeo is a web design company serving Montreal and the surrounding areas. Collectively, we have decades of web design and development and internet marketing experience.

Contact us, we are ready to meet with you in person as far as Sherbrooke, Magog, Ottawa and Gatineau, or parts of New England (USA). (Outside of those areas, we are glad to work with you remotely using Skype and other tools.)

http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/
http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=5977,40491560&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal