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.

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Quebec is probably what all North America would have been like if the French rather than the English had won the Seven Years’ War.