Montreal

Population:

4,247.000 

Area:

4,604.26 Km

Climate:

Montreal has a warm continental climate with humid summers and Montreal winters with cold, snowy, windy, and sometimes icy weather.

Winters are cold, snowy, windy, and sometimes icy, with a daily average of -10.5 to -9 degrees Celsius (13.1 to 15.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in January. However, some winter days are above the freezing point, with an average of 4 days of rain in January and February each. Usually, snow that covers some or all of the vacant lots lasts on average from the first or second week of December to the last week of March. While temperatures do not fall below -30 degrees Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit) each year, cold winds often keep temperatures low against exposed skin.

Spring and autumn are very mild but are prone to extreme temperature changes. Snowstorms in the early and late seasons can occur in November and March and rarely in April. Montreal is usually snow-free from late April to late October. However, snow can fall in early to mid-October as well as in early to mid-May in rare cases.

Religion 

About 65.8% of the total Christian population are predominantly Roman Catholic (52.8%), mainly descendants of major French immigrants, and others of Italian and Irish descent. Protestants, including the Anglican Church in Canada, the United Church of Canada, Lutheran, due to British and German immigration, and other denominations, make up 5.90 percent, and the other 3.7 percent are predominantly Orthodox Christians, fed by a large Greek population. There are also several Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox churches. 

Islam is the largest non-Christian religious group, with 154,540 members, making it the second largest Muslim population in Canada with 9.6%. The Jewish population of Montreal is 90,780. In cities such as Cote d'Ivoire and Hempstead, Jews make up the majority or a significant portion of the population.

Ethnic Origins 

The largest European ethnicities reported in the 2006 census were French at 23%, Italians at 10%, Irish at 5%, British at 4%, Scots at 3% and Hispanics at 2%. About 26% of Montreal and 16.5% of the population. From the population of Greater Montreal, members of a visible minority group (non-whites).

Visible minorities made up 34.2% of the population in the 2016 census. The five most visible minorities are Black Canadians (10.3%), Arab Canadians, predominantly Algerian Canadians (7.3%), Latin Americans (4.1%), South Asian Canadians (3.3%), and Chinese Canadians (3.3%). Visible minorities are defined by the Canadian Employment Equality Act as "non-native non-white".

Economy

Montreal has the second largest economy among Canadian cities by GDP and the largest economy in Quebec. In 2014, the Metropolitan of Montreal was responsible for C $ 118.7 billion of Quebec's $ 340.7 billion GDP. Industry, technology, culture, world affairs and is the headquarters of the Montreal Exchange. In recent decades, the city has been widely seen as weaker than Toronto and other major Canadian cities but has recently revived.

Industries include aerospace, electronics, pharmaceuticals, prints, software engineering, telecommunications, textiles and clothing, tobacco, petrochemicals, and transportation. The service sector is also strong and includes civil engineering, mechanics and process, finance, higher education and research and development. In 2002, Montreal was North America's fourth largest aerospace business. The Port of Montreal is one of the largest inland ports in the world, handling 26 million tons of cargo annually. As one of the most important ports in Canada, this port continues to transport grain, sugar, petroleum products, machinery, and consumer goods. For this reason, Montreal is the Canadian railway hub and has always been a very important rail city. It was the seat of the National Railroad of Canada, and until 1995 the seat of the Canadian Railway.

The Canadian Space Agency is based in Longville, southeast of Montreal. Montreal also hosts the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO, a United Nations agency); The World Anti-Doping Agency (an Olympic body) is the International Airports Council.

Transportation 

Local public transport is provided by a network of buses, metro and city trains that run across the island and beyond. Société de Transport de Montréal.

Metro and bus system. The S bus network is a metro and bus system with 203 routes per day and 23 routes per night. The metro was opened in 1966 and has 68 stations on four lines. It is Canada's busiest metro system in total daily passenger service, serving 1,050,800 passengers one day a week (since the first quarter of 2010). Each station is designed by different architects with original themes and artwork, and the trains run on rubber tires, making the system quieter than the others.

The project was started by Montreal Mayor Jean Drapo, who later brought the 1976 Summer Olympics to Montreal. The subway system has long had a station on the south coast of Longville and expanded in 2007 to Laval, north of the city. Montreal, with three new stations. Metro has recently modernized its trains and purchased new Azure models with interconnected wagons.