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Canada's French Connection: Montreal's History of Multiculturalism

When the French first arrived in Northits underground crypt is currently the site
America with designs on creating a 'Newof  an  archeological  excavation!
France', they observed the native tribes of
the Algonquian, Iroquoian and Inuit, andAnother building of historical and
built their first colonies based on thearchitectural interest is the vast Basilique
fur-trading tradition of these indigenousNotre-Dame de Montreal, designed by
peoples. This was the beginning of Canada'sIrish-American architect James O'Donnel,
own grand tradition of integration, of thewhose Gothic Revivalist style again
acceptance of different cultures; a traditionhighlights the coming together of older
that - like the language spoken by thoseEuropean themes in a more modern, North
colonizers - is still very much alive inAmerican setting. It is said that O'Donnel,
Quebec  today.a Protestant, was so distraught at the idea
of not being entombed in this beautiful
What Canada's province of Quebec represents,basilica that he converted to Catholocism on
then, as its French mother-tongue proudlyhis  deathbed!
proclaims, is an area of North America that,
rather than striving for identity, hasToday, the city's more modern take on
instead gained identity through anQuebec's tradition of multiculturalism is in
amalgamation of other identities and culturesevidence wherever you look, and expresses
- a province that gains uniqueness byitself frequently through artistic
mingling great aspects from many differentperformances and festivals, from the elegant
cultures; a province that stands singular inpirouettes of Les Grands Ballets Canadiens to
its  multiculturalism.the acrobatic barrel jumps of the avant-garde
La La La Human Steps; from the world's
A great example of Quebec's multiculturalismlargest gay-benefit dance festival Black and
can be found in its largest city, Montreal,Blue, to the blue notes of the Montreal
that can be seen as a city made from cities;International  Jazz  Festival.
a place grafted from lots of different
cultures, from its original foundation asOther more modern sights include the Olympic
part of 'New France', right through itsStadium built for the 1976 games - which
British rule and development alongside theboasts the tallest slanted tower in the world
United States, to the Montreal we see today -- and the Underground City, the largest
a city with enough influences and culture forunderground complex in the world, which is
three  cities.home to many of the shopping malls, museums
and hotels in Montreal although surface
As well as its language, Montreal still showsdwellers are well catered for in this
the influence of the original Europeandepartment  too!
settlers in the part of the city known as
Vieux-Montreal, or Old Montreal. Some of theThis majestic city, then, can boast a level
buildings in this part of the city date rightof multiculturalism most cities cannot, for
back to the seventeenth century, like theMontreal has not only adapted to new
colonial mansion Chateau Ramezay, and thecultures, but its entire history, its charm,
Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel - theand its success have all relied on cultural
colonial history of which runs so deep thatacceptance.



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