Are there universites in Montreal?

The largest city and chief port in Canada; located in the province of Quebec in the St. Lawrence lowlandsMontreal is located in Quebec, Canada.

Same reason it's "Tampa, Florida" and not "Tampa, USA". Montreal is a city in the province of Quebec. Quebec is a province in the country of Canada.

Montreal actually started with the name Mont-Royale Mount Royal in English when Jaques Cartier discovered Canada in 1535 he named it that but somehow it later on got the name MOntreal.

because after the island was first settled it was referred to as La Ville Marie (the city of Mary), however in the decades thereafter the settlers named the mountain on the island Mont Royale (Mount...

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