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Montreal, Quebec - Gurupedia (2680 words) |
 | Montreal is situated in the southwest of the province, approximately 200 km southwest of the provincial capital Quebec City and 150 km east of the national capital |
 | Montreal was the capital of the Province of Canada from 1844 to 1849. |
 | Montreal is also home to the Montreal Canadiens, the locally revered hockey team which is among the most celebrated teams in North American sports. |
| Montreal, Canada (3580 words) |
 | Montreal has a substantial anglophone minority and an increasing number of allophones, whose first language is neither English or French, which includes communities with long ties to Montreal as well as recent immigrants, of whom a substantial number are integrated into the French-speaking community. |
 | Montreal is situated in the southwest of Quebec, approximately 250 kilometres southwest of Quebec City, the provincial capital, and 200 kilometres east of Ottawa, the federal capital. |
 | The situation on the island of Montreal was further complicated by the presence of municipalities predominantly English-speaking that were due to merge with the predominantly French-speaking city of Montreal. |