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Montreal's 11th annual outdoor winter festival. With over 200 free attractions for everyone, including foods, bands, lightshows, fireworks...and PENGUINS!

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Igloofest is an annual outdoor music festival which takes place in Old Port of Montreal in Montreal, Canada.

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The Osheaga Music and Arts Festival is a multi-day indie music festival in Montreal, Quebec, that is held annually at Parc Jean-Drapeau on Île Sainte-Hélène every summer. The festival takes place on five stages with various audience capacities.  Each performance area is paired with a sponsor. Band set times fluctuate based on the status of the performer within the festival. Emerging artists play 30-minute sets, and headliners conclude each day with 90-minute plus sets. The 2006 festival attracted a crowd of around 25,000 people. The 2012 festival reached its 40,000 attendance capacity each day.

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Just for Laughs is a comedy festival held each July in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1983, it is the largest international comedy festival in the world.

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Montreal Photos: Jean Drapeau maire de Montréal de 1954 à 1957 et de 1960 à 1986. Jean Drapeau Montreal Mayor from 1954 to 1957 and from 1960 to 1986.

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The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival.[1] Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts (including 450 free outdoor performances), and welcomes close to 2.5 million visitors (34% of whom are tourists) as well as 400 accredited journalists. The festival takes place at 10 free outdoor stages and 10 indoor concert halls.

A major part of the city's downtown core is closed to traffic for ten days, as free outdoor shows are open to the public and held on many stages at the same time, from noon until midnight. Attendance at some shows is over 100,000 people, and occasionally exceeds 200,000. Shows are held in a wide variety of venues, from relatively small jazz clubs to the large concert halls of Place des Arts. Some of the outdoor shows are held on the cordoned-off streets, while others are in terraced parks.

400 Boulevard de Maisonneuve Ouest, Montréal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1L4

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Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal, is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and national shrine on Westmount Summit in Montreal, Quebec. It is Canada's largest church.

Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount-Royal  3800 Queen Mary Road  Montréal (Québec) H3V 1H6 

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"Travel’s hilarious!!! Even the downs associated with it crack us up! If you haven’t laughed at the adversities & challenges of your travels, odds are you’re more comfortable at some all-inclusive resort and sitting in a chaise-lounge as really bad music plays over loudspeakers.

Based in Montreal, we’re here to make travellers laugh. Period (or, in this case – exclamation marks)!!!  We make it happen a few ways:

1) A weekly stand-up shows at “M Bar“ – the world’s sexiest hostel bar!  Each week, a different group of stand-up comics perform for the guests of the hostel, other travellers who are passing through Montreal, and locals who know about the best-kept secret in town! We feature top Montreal comics, pro and semi-pro. Our comics have done huuuuuge festivals like Just For Laughs, Edinburgh Fringe, Halifax Comedy Festival, Montreal Fringe Festival, and more! Comics  from out-of-town stop in to make our crowd laugh, and the beer’s super cheap!"

From their website --> http://comedyhostel.com/about/

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Since its inauguration in 1996 under the name Molson Centre, the Centre Bell remains the centre stage for entertainment and business events in Montreal. Every year, the home of the Montreal Canadiens attracts more than 1 million spectators to their hockey games, while 650,000 people walk through the doors to watch over 120 shows, for a total of 1.5 million spectators.The Centre Bell incorporates cutting-edge technology to ensure the perfect ambience when it comes to sound, comfort, catering and otherwise for any event, whatever its magnitude.

http://www.centrebell.ca/

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A veritable museum of the history of the Habs since the team’s founding in 1909, the Montreal Canadiens Hall of Fame exhibits objects, images, and interactive displays in nearly 10,000 square feet of space as it recounts the story of a club that has stirred crowds and warmed the hearts of Québec people throughout the wintertime. A major destination for hockey fans of all ages, the Hall of Fame also conducts tours of the Bell Centre, home of the world famous Montreal Canadiens.

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Saint Catherine Street is the primary commercial artery of Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It crosses the central business district from west to east, beginning at the corner of Claremont Avenue and de Maisonneuve Boulevard in the city of Westmount, traversing the borough of Ville-Marie, and ending on Notre-Dame Street just east of Viau Street in the borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.

Educational institutions located on or near the street include Concordia University, McGill University, Université du Québec à Montréal, Dawson College and LaSalle College

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An incredible English-language university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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The Lachine Canal is a canal passing through the southwestern part of the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, running 14.5 kilometres from the Old Port of Montreal to Lake Saint-Louis, through the boroughs of Lachine, Lasalle and Sud-Ouest. On the land before the canal construction there was a lake named Lac Saint-Pierre. The lake and its rivers can be seen on the maps of Montreal of the years 1700, 1744 and on the map titled "The isles of Montreal". As they have been surveyed by the french engineers (1761)

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The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is a motor racing circuit in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the venue for the FIA Formula One Canadian Grand Prix. It has previously hosted the FIA World Sportscar Championship, the Champ Car World Series, the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, the NASCAR Nationwide Series and the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.

The venue hosted the Champ Car World Series Grand Prix of Montreal from 2002 to 2006.

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The incredible Canadian Railway Museum, operating under the brand name Exporail in both official languages, is a rail transport museum in Saint-Constant, Quebec, Canada, on Montreal's south shore.

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Old Montreal is the oldest area in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with few remains dating back to New France. Located in the borough of Ville-Marie, the area is bordered on the west by McGill St., on the north by Ruelle des Fortifications, on the east by Rue Saint Andre and on the south by the Saint Lawrence River.

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Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) is a symphony orchestra based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its home is the Montreal Symphony House at Place des Arts, which opened on September 7, 2011.

Place des Arts is a major performing arts centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Located in the eastern part of the city's downtown, between Ste-Catherine and de Maisonneuve Streets, and St-Urbain and Jeanne-Mance streets, in an area now known as the Quartier des Spectacles, the complex is home to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, and the Opéra de Montréal.

Place des Arts was an initiative of Mayor Jean Drapeau, a noted lover of opera, as part of a project to expand the downtown core eastward from the concentration of business and financial activity in the centre-west part of downtown .

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Notre-Dame Basilica is a basilica in the historic district of Old Montreal, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The church is located at 110 Notre-Dame Street West, at the corner of Saint Sulpice Street. It is located next to the Saint-Sulpice Seminary and faces the Place d'Armes square.

The church's Gothic Revival architecture is among the most dramatic in the world; its interior is grand and colourful, its ceiling is coloured deep blue and decorated with golden stars, and the rest of the sanctuary is a polychrome of blues, azures, reds, purples, silver, and gold. It is filled with hundreds of intricate wooden carvings and several religious statues.