European Colonists
The first European colonists to settle in this area.
Who are the French?
The country that won the Seven Years War.
What is Britain?
Parts of Montreal with the most factories and slums in the 18th-19th centuries (name the cardinal directions).
What is south and east?
The name used to describe the neighbourhoods in Montreal.
What is a "borough"?
The borough where you can find the Lachine Canal, a very important waterway that led to the development of the city.
What is Le Sud-Ouest?
The name given by the French to the city that is now Montreal.
What is Ville-Marie?
The language of business in Montreal after 1760.
What is English?
Place where rich, English Montrealers traditionally lived (name cardinal direction or borough).
What is the west or Westmount?
The borough formerly known for its farmland and cultivation of melons.
What is NDG- Côte-des-Neiges?
The borough where you can go to Jean-Talon Market and buy fresh local produce.
What is La Petite Patrie?
The name given to what is now the province of Quebec by the French.
What is New France?
The name given to the British takeover.
Place where rich, French Montrealers traditionally lived (borough).
What is Outremont?
The borough that has been voted one of the coolest neighbourhoods in North America because it is funky, artsy and full of fun cafés and bookshops.
What is Le Plateau-Mont-Royal?
The borough where you can find Canada's largest church.
What is NDG-Côte-des-Neiges?
The name of the war in Europe that lasted from 1756-1763.
What is the Seven Years War?
The things both New France and British North America wanted and about which they were fighting.
What is land to settle and trade on?
The reason many French Canadians left their farms and moved to Montreal.
What is to work on the Lachine Canal project or in factories?
The borough in which Ms. Jennifer bought her wedding dress. There are many wedding stores on its famous street: St-Hubert!
What is La Petite Patrie?
The borough that is home to the enormous Mont-Royal Cemetery.
What is Outremont?
The two countries fighting against each other in the Seven Years War.
The name of the area in Montreal where the English elite first lived in their grand mansions.
What is the Golden Square Mile?
The ways in which the British "Conquest" changed immigration to Montreal.
What is that more English-speaking immigrants started coming to Montreal?
The street in Le Plateau Mont-Royal that used to be called the "Main" and was seen as a physical divide between the English and French.
What is St-Laurent Boulevard?
This wealthy neighbourhood is actually an independent city, even though it's inside of Montreal.
What is Westmount?