Montreal/History

5 Historic Landmarks in Montreal

5 landmarks with verified facts and stories

Basilique Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours
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Basilique Notre-Dame de Bon-Secours

400 Rue St-Paul E, Vieux Montreal, Montréal, H2Y 3C9, Canada

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Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours is the oldest chapel in Montreal — known as the Sailors' Church because of the ship models hanging from the ceiling, donated by grateful sailors who survived the dangerous transatlantic crossing.

McGill University
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McGill University

845 Rue Sherbrooke O, La Montagne, Montréal, H3A 0G4, Canada

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McGill University is Canada's most prestigious university — founded in 1821 with a bequest from fur trader James McGill, and occupying a campus at the foot of Mount Royal that is one of the most beautiful urban university settings in North America.

Old Montreal (Vieux-Montréal)
~3 min

Old Montreal (Vieux-Montréal)

Rue St-Paul, Ste. Geneviève, Montréal, H9H 1E6, Canada

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Old Montreal is the historic heart of the city — a district of cobblestone streets, 17th and 18th-century stone buildings, and horse-drawn calèches that occupies the original site of Ville-Marie, the French mission settlement founded in 1642.

Pointe-à-Callière Museum
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Pointe-à-Callière Museum

350 Place Royale, Vieux-Montréal, Montreal

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Pointe-à-Callière is Montreal's archaeology and history museum — built directly on top of the city's birthplace, the exact spot where Paul de Chomedey de Maisonneuve founded Ville-Marie in 1642.

Schwartz's Deli
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Schwartz's Deli

3895 Boul St-Laurent, Little Portugal, Montréal, H2W 1K4, Canada

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Schwartz's is the most famous deli in Canada — a narrow, no-frills smoked meat shop on The Main that has been hand-smoking, hand-cutting, and hand-serving Montreal's signature sandwich since 1928.

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