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Atlantic. UTC−04:00. UTC−03:00. Atlantic. UTC−03:30. UTC−02:30. Newfoundland. Canada is divided into six time zones. Most areas of the country's provinces and territories operate on standard time from the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March and daylight saving time the rest of the year.
Montreal[ a ] ( French: Montréal[ b ]) is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", [ 18 ] it is now named after Mount Royal, [ 19 ] the triple-peaked hill around which the early settlement was built. [ 20 ]
Exo, stylized as exo and officially known as Réseau de transport métropolitain ( RTM; English: Metropolitan Transportation Network ), is a public transport system in Greater Montreal, including the Island of Montreal, Laval ( Île Jésus ), and communities along both the North Shore of the Mille-Îles River and the South Shore of the St ...
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. / 45.50056°N 73.52250°W / 45.50056; -73.52250. The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, also spelled Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve ( French pronunciation: [siʁ.kɥi ʒil vilnœv] ), is a 4.361 km (2.710 mi) motor racing circuit on Notre Dame Island in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the venue for the FIA Formula One ...
In the early 20th century, Montreal became one of seven cities in Canada to use daylight saving time before 1918, by local ordinance. [11] On December 5, 2005, Quebec added parts of March and November to its daylight saving period, following the United States' Energy Policy Act of 2005. [14]
Area codes 514, 438, and 263. Area codes 514, 438, and 263 are telephone area codes of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Montreal and most of its on-island suburbs, specifically the Island of Montreal and Île Perrot in the Canadian province of Quebec . Area code 514 was one of the original North American area codes assigned by AT&T ...
Greater Montreal (French: Grand Montréal) is the most populous metropolitan area in Quebec and the second most populous in Canada after Greater Toronto.In 2015, Statistics Canada identified Montreal's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) as 4,258.31 square kilometres (1,644.14 sq mi) with a population of 4,027,100, [5] almost half that of the province.
The Government of Canada recommends that all-numeric dates in both English and French use the YYYY-MM-DD format codified in ISO 8601. [11] The Standards Council of Canada also specifies this as the country's date format. [12] [13] The YYYY-MM-DD format is the only officially recommended method of writing a numeric date in Canada. [2]