Explore Montreal

Mount Royal Park covers the wooded mountain west of downtown Montreal. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and inaugurated in 1876. Paths lead through the forest to Beaver Lake and to the Kondiaronk Belvedere, a terrace beside the Mount Royal Chalet with a view over the city's skyline and the Saint Lawrence River.

Notre-Dame Basilica is the Gothic Revival parish church on Place d'Armes in Old Montreal, designed by New York architect James O'Donnell and built from 1824 to 1829; its two towers were finished in 1843. Inside, a deep-blue vault with gold stars rises over carved wood, stained glass showing Montreal's religious history and an 1891 Casavant organ.

Saint Joseph's Oratory is a Catholic minor basilica and national shrine on the Westmount summit of Mount Royal, begun as a small chapel by Brother André Bessette in 1904. Built in stages from 1914 to 1967, it pairs a Renaissance Revival facade and a large copper dome with an Art Deco interior; the site also holds a crypt church, a museum and the original chapel.

The Old Port of Montreal is the historic harbour on the St. Lawrence River beside Old Montreal, stretching for more than 2 km. French fur traders used it from 1611; shipping moved to the new port in the east in 1976, and the quays were redeveloped as a public waterfront in the early 1990s, with promenades, the Clock Tower, a science centre and river cruises.

Exporail, the Canadian Railway Museum, is a railway museum in Saint-Constant, on Montreal's South Shore, founded in 1961 by the Canadian Railroad Historical Association. Its collection of more than 140 locomotives, cars and streetcars fills the Angus Pavilion and an outdoor site; it includes Canadian Pacific 2850, which pulled the 1939 royal train.