Montreal

Montreal (; It is maist common tae omit the acute accent in Inglis-leid uisage (Montreal), unless ane is uisin a proper name whaur the context requires the uise o the accent (e.g. Le Journal de Montréal, as compared tae the Montreal Gazette), an tae keep the accent in French-leid uisage (Montréal). This is an aa the approach favoured bi The Canadian Press Style Book (ISBN 0-920009-32-8, at p. 234) an The Globe and Mail Style Book (ISBN 0-7710-5685-0, at p. 249). According to The Canadian Style (ISBN 1-55002-276-8, at pp. 263–4), the official style guide of the Government of Canada, the name of the city is to be written with an accent in all government materials.;  , ) is the seicont-lairgest ceety in Canadae an the lairgest ceety in the province o Quebec. Oreeginally cawed Ville-Marie, or "Ceety o Mary", the ceety takes its present name frae Mont-Royal, the triple-peaked hill locatit in the hert o the ceety, whose name wis an aa initially gien tae the island on which the ceety is locatit, or Mont Réal as it wis spelled in Middle French, (Mont Royal in present French).

 Sister ceeties 
Montreal haes a nummer o sister ceeties:

 Algiers, Algerie – 1999
  Amsterdam, Netherlands
  Boston, Unitit States
  Brussels, Belgium
  Bucharest, Romanie
  Busan, Sooth Korea – 2000
  Hiroshima, Japan – 1998   Hanoi, Vietnam - 1997
  Lucknow, Indie – 2000
  Lyon, Fraunce – 1979
  Manila, Philippines – 2005
  Managua, Nicaragua
  Milan, Italy - 1996   Paris, Fraunce – 2006
  Port-au-Prince, Haiti - 1995
  Roum, Italy
  San Salvador, El Salvador - 2001
  Shanghai, Cheenae – 1985
  Tel Aviv, Israel
  Yerevan, Armenie – 1998

 References 


Category:Quebec
Category:Umwhile caipitals o Canadae
Category:Host ceeties o the Simmer Olympic Gemmes
Category:Hudson's Bay Company tredin posts
Category:Orthodox Jewish communities
Category:Populatit places established in 1642
Category:Populatit places on the Saint Lawrence River
Category:Port settlements in Quebec
Category:Quebec communities wi significant anglophone populations