Montreal (CA-QC)

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Montreal is a city in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the largest city in the province, the second-largest in Canada and the 8th-largest in North America. Originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The city is on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city,and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard.French is the city's official language and is the language spoken at home, as Québécois French, by 56.9% of the population of the city, followed by English at 18.6% and 19.8% other languages (in the 2006 census).] In the larger Montreal Census Metropolitan Area, 67.9% of the population speaks French at home, compared to 16.5% who speak English.[16] 56% of the population are able to speak both English and French, making Montreal one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada. Montreal is the second largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris.

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Circle MONTREAL 3 on a 1889 issue	1894	1898	Circle in 1961
French Postmark of Montreal: Montreal, Autorité des marchés financiers ( Financial Market Authority), Parti Quebecois (Quebec), 1975	Montreal 3889 H4T meter cancel year?	FDC postmark 1 Jun 2004