Montreal, Quebec

Montreal
Motto	Concordia Salus
Geography
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Public Transit	Société de transport de Montréal (STM)
Government
Mayor	Valérie Plante

Montreal is a city in the Canadian province of Quebec, and the second largest in Canada.

Popular Culture

Appearances

Variants

The following list is of explicit appearances of Montreal.

Year	Name	Appearance	Notes
1896	Montreal	Tisab Ting, or, The Electrical Kiss, author Dyjan Fergus	Chinese scientist Tisab Ting woos and weds a Canadian wife with his invention, the Electrical Kiss.
1939	Montreal	The Avenger, "Justice, Inc.", author Paul Ernst	On hearing that his mother-in-law was dying, soldier of fortune Richard Henry Benson, his wife Alicia, and daughter Alice board a plane from Buffalo. When Benson exits the plane's lavatory, he finds his wife and daughter missing. His fellow passengers are forced to subdue the enraged Benson; He awakes in a hospital weeks later to find his features transformed.
1941	Montreal	Hudson's Bay	Pierre Radisson (Paul Muni) and Gooseberry (Laird Cregar) work to establish a fur trading organisation.
1964	Montreal	23 Skidoo	The streets of Montreal lay desolate and devoid of life after the detonation of the world's first neutron bomb.
1966	Montreal	The Quiet Racket	A motorcyclist (Ted Zeigler) leaves the city to escape never-ending noise pollution, but does not achieve the desired result.
1977	Montreal	The Disappearance	Contract killer Jay Mallory (Donald Sutherland) both lives in and operates out of Montreal, residing in Habitat 67.
1981	Montreal	Kings and Desperate Men	Radio talk show host John Kingsley (Patrick McGoohan) is held hostage by terrorist Lucas Miller (Alexis Kanner), who hopes to convince Montreals to partake in a city-wide retrial of a convicted killer.
1985	Montreal	Hold-Up	The criminal Grimm (Jean-Paul Belmondo) holds up the most secure bank in Montreal, while dressed as a clown.
1997	Montreal	Windsor Protocol	Kyle MacLachlan stars as British secret agent Sean Dillon as he attempts to foil a plot against the President of the United States. Serge Houde stars as a Montreal police captain.
2003	Montreal	Sur le seuil	The senseless murder of 11 children in front of the Biodôme corresponds with the attempted suicide of Thomas Roy (Patrick Huard); as Doctor Paul Lacasse (Michel Côté) investigates both crimes, he uncovers a mysterious link in a web of tragedies.
2006	Montreal	Bon Cop, Bad Cop	David Bouchard (Patrick Huard) is a detective in the Sûreté du Québec, operating out of Montreal, and cooperating with OPP Detective Martin Ward (Colm Feore). Their investigation of the killings of the Tattoo Killer lead them to Toronto as well.
2014 - 2016	Montreal	Tabula Rasa Comics, Z'Isle, authors Isabelle Duguay, Lateef Omar Martin, art by Lateet Omar Martin	Set seven years after a zombie apocalypse.
2017 - 2018	Montreal	Bad Blood	A dramatisation of crime boss Vito Rizzuto's (Anthony LaPaglia) rise and fall from power. The second season is completely fictional.
2020	Simone Simoneau	Okay, Universe: Chronicles of a Woman in Politics, authors Valérie Plante and Delphie Cote-Lacroix	The titular character is modelled on real-life Mayor of Montreal Plante's rise in politics.

Mentions

The following list is of various mentions of Montreal in fiction and popular culture.

Year	Name	Appearance	Notes
1906	Montreal	The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories, "A Haunted Island", author Algernon Blackwood	The narrator spends time at a lake commonly visited by residents of Montreal and Toronto.
1993	Montreal	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, episode "It's Better to Have Loved and Lost It..."	Servant to the Banks family Geoffrey Butler reveals his greatest humiliation; that he was an Olympic runner for the United Kingdom during the 1976 Summer Olympics, who cheated his way to short-lived victory, earning him the title "Shame of a Nation".

Links

• Montreal on Wikipedia
• Montreal on the Canadian Encyclopedia
• Montreal on TV Tropes