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EXPERIENCE Montreal

Interior of the fascinating
Redpath Museum, part of
McGill University

Redpath Museum under the place Ville-Marie
15 ' ⌂ 859 Rue Sherbrooke W office tower. This has turned
McGill University § (514) 398 4861 #9am–5pm into a vast network of over

 B2 ⌂845 Rue Sherbrooke Mon–Fri, 11am–5pm Sat & Sun 19 miles (30 km) of boutique-

O £ Central Station @ 24, lined passages, housing more
356 q McGill # 9am–6pm than 1,600 shops, 200 restau-
Mon–Fri ∑ mcgill.ca 16 rants, hotels, and film theaters.
It is theoretically possible to
When it was founded in Underground City lead a rich life in Montreal
1821, Canada’s best-known  C2 £ Central Station without ever stepping outside.
univer sity was set on land left @ Terminus Voyager
for the purpose by fur trader q Peel, McGill, Bonaventure
and land speculator James 17
McGill (1744–1813). The When Montreal opened its
university’s main entrance is first métro (or subway) lines in Place des Arts
guarded by the Classical 1966, it inadvertently created  C2 ⌂ 260 Blvd de
Roddick Gates. Behind them, a whole new layer of urban life: Maisonneuve W @15, 55,

an avenue leads to the domed the Underground City. 80, 125, 129 q Place des
Neo-Classical Arts Building, The first métro stations had Arts ∑ placedesarts.com
which is the oldest structure underground links to just the
on campus. two main train stations, a few This complex of halls and
The rest of the 70 or so hotels, and the shopping mall theaters sits at the heart of
build ings that make up the the Quartier des Spectacles
university range from the entertainment district and is
ornately Victorian to the Montreal’s prime center for
starkly concrete. One of the Did You Know? the performing arts. Both the
loveliest is the Redpath Orchéstre Symph onique de
Museum, which holds one of Montreal was the third Montréal (Montreal Symphony
the city’s most eclectic and choice for John Lennon Orchestra) and the Opéra de
eccentric collections. A huge and Yoko Ono’s “Bed In," Montréal (Montreal Opera)
number of fossils, including after NYC and the make their home here. The
a dinosaur skeleton, sit Bahamas proved buildings share a spacious
along side African art, Roman unsuitable. plaza with the superb Musée
coins, and a shrunken head. d’art Contemporain (p244).
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