Timeless Canada

THE NAME IS becoming a little anachronistic. Many of the restaurants and shops in this 18-block district just northeast of the Old City are now owned by Vietnamese and Thai immigrants, who arrived in Montreal in the wake of 20th-century upheavals in Southeast Asia. (daha fazla…)

THIS MUSEUM is housed in a handsome, red-brick fire station, which has a gracefully gabled roof built in 1903. The exhibits trace the history of Montreal from the first Indian settlements to the modern age, with the focus on everyday life. (daha fazla…)

THIS MUSEUM, housed in an old stone warehouse belonging to an ancient order of nuns, has an extensive collection of Fortin’s work, and it also mounts exhibitions of new painting by local artists. (daha fazla…)

GEORGE-ETIENNE Cartier (1814–73) was a Father of Confederation and one of the most important French-Canadian politicians of his day. (daha fazla…)

IN THE CENTER OF PLACE D’ARMES sits the Basilica, Montreal’s grandest Catholic church. Originally built in the 17th century, a new building was commissioned in 1829. (daha fazla…)

WHEN MONTREAL’S 11th governor, Claude de Ramezay, arrived in the city in 1702, he was homesick for Normandy and decided to build a residence that was reminiscent of the châteaux back home, with stone walls, dormer windows, and copper roof. The squat round towers, added in the 19th century, reinforce the effect. Many of de Ramezay’s governor successors lived here and the building also housed the West India Company. (daha fazla…)

IN ITS GLORY DAYS of the 19th century, the Vieux-Port of Montreal was one of the most important inland harbours in North America, but it declined with the introduction of megaships and the airplane in the early 20th century. By the late 1980s, the Canadian government had begun to transform it into one of the most popular parks in Montreal. (daha fazla…)

EXTENDING FROM THE Gulf of St. Lawrence on the Atlantic coast to Duluth at the western end of Lake Superior in Minnesota, the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes System flows across North America for over 3,700 km (2,300 miles). The St. Lawrence Seaway itself stretches 553 km (344 miles) from Montreal to Lake Erie and covers 245,750 square km (95,000 sq miles) of navigable water. (daha fazla…)

LONG THE PRIDE of Quebec and Ontario, there is more to Canada’s ancient maple forests than their annual display of beauty. Every fall, turning leaves splash crimson and orange across the south, but it is in springtime that the trees give up their most famous product: maple syrup. (daha fazla…)

Built between 1713 and 1744, the magnificent Fortress Louisbourg was France’s bastion of military strength in the New World. Today, it is the largest military reconstruction in North America. Visitors stepping through the fortress gate enter the year 1744, when war had just been declared between France and England. (daha fazla…)