Communities

The South Shore is a general term for a collection of suburbs of Montreal situated close to the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River opposite the Island of Montreal. More than 750,000 people live in this large area, with nearly 250,000 of them residing in Longueuil, just opposite downtown ... » Learn More about South Shore

Situated north of the Island of Montreal is Laval, which is technically a city in its own right but is part of the Greater Montreal Area. Laval includes 14 municipalities, with around 423,000 inhabitants in total. Of these, more than one quarter are immigrants. Laval  It is the largest suburb ... » Learn More about Laval & North Shore

Beginning in Dorval and stretching over the western part of the Island of Montreal are a cluster of neighbourhoods that together make up what is known as the West Island. These neighbourhoods include the rather pretty villages of Point-Claire and St-Anne-de-Bellevue, which lie either side of ... » Learn More about West Island

Golden Square Mile The Square Mile and also known as the Golden Square Mile  is the nostalgic name given to an urban neighbourhood developed principally between 1850 and 1930 at the foot of Mount-Royal, in the west-central section of Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The name ... » Learn More about Downtown Areas

Cote des Neiges With over 100 ethnic communities from all over the world, Côte-des-Neiges is one of the few Montreal neighbourhoods where neither French nor English is the majority language. Saint Joseph’s Oratory, situated on the western side of Mount Royal, dominates the skyline and ... » Learn More about Suburbs