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Almost anyone who visits Montreal is well aware of the city’s obsession with hockey, in particular their hometown Canadiens. While the NHL has long been a fixture of the local sports scene, there have been several other professional leagues which have attempted to make a go of it in this hockey-mad culture. The Montreal Expos [...]

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With at least 6 months of the year sacrificed to a blanket of snow and sub-zero temperatures, golfers in Montreal have to go to great lengths to make sure that they get as many tee times in as possible during that thin wedge of warmth that Canadians refer to as summer. While Montreal might have [...]

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Every year around mid-september, Montreal welcomes thousands of runners participating in the international marathon. Starting from the Jacques-Cartier Bridge, the participants are going through Montreal streets and finish the race at the Olympic stadium. Not everybody enrolls in the full marathon race (42 kms long – World record time for men : 2 hours 4 [...]

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Montreal is not known for a friendly downtown when it comes to general bicycling. A harsh winter season combined with difficult traffic conditions make cycling downtown a sometimes treacherous proposition. This is strange when considering Montreal’s overall reputation as a town which is very accessible to cyclists, as evidenced by the huge number of bike [...]

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Go Habs Go!. Almost every visitor to Montreal is familiar with the city’s obsession with hockey. Not only do many of the city’s residents regularly don the blades to play this game, be it in pick up games or highly competitive organized leagues, but the Montreal Canadiens are the most successful franchise in National Hockey [...]

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People living in Montreal are never really too far from a cross-country skiing location…

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