High season is June through September, when the weather is mostly sunny and warm. Festivals like the Montreal Jazz Festival attract large crowds all summer long. In colder months, make sure to take ...

Montreal is a city touched by art, culture and history. This exhilarating metropolis has touches of French life intertwined with Canadian history and culture, and offers a European experience, but ...

Although Montreal is often compared to Paris, this cultural metropolis is very much its own distinct city. It has much of the Gallic charm associated with Paris: the French language, fine restaurants, ...

In Montreal, North America meets Europe — architecturally, culturally and gastronomically. Wedged between the St Lawrence and the Prairies Rivers, the Island of Montreal forms the city’s heart, and ...

Montreal, believe it or not, shares a lot in common with Philly: It’s historic but modern, small as big cities go, and made up of neighborhoods with their own distinct personalities. Like Philadelphia ...

IT WAS PAST MIDNIGHT and freezing out, but the skaters whirling around the Esplanade Tranquille rink last February in Montreal’s cultural district, the Quartier des Spectacles, didn’t seem to mind.

Canada is suddenly hot in Washington. After seven years when we’ve been the country with the dynamic young leader, the US’s northern neighbor now has its own hip head of state—who just made a ...

It's an easy hike, a tour guide promised me the day before I set off to climb the 400 wooden steps that lead up to Chalet du Mont Royal. Yet at 200 steps, it's already taking all of my strength just ...

Lifting off from Burlington International Airport has a lot to recommend it: proximity, a solid book exchange, preflight pints at the Skinny Pancake. Anecdotes suggest good odds, moreover, of spotting ...

French shutterbug Valérie Belin uses found objects, doll heads, and lifelike mannequins as her subjects, creating striking photographs that straddle the line between still-life and sculpture. Belin’s ...