It's that magical time of year when Montreal's barren trees begin sprouting buds that bloom into flowers, gradually turning the city into a colourful botanical paradise. With the magnolias just starting to blossom and cherry blossoms expected in the coming weeks, you may be wondering where in the city you can see your favourite trees this spring.
Creative the STM social media team is. The Montreal metro map got a Star Wars-themed makeover to mark May the Fourth, the unofficial holiday celebrating the beloved sci-fi franchise. Now if only the metro could move at light speed. The reimagined map replaces all 68 real station names with Star Wars puns.
Montreal is an artsy city, filled with arresting sculptures, video projections on buildings, murals and countless more public art displays hiding in neighbourhood corners. There's a lot to see if you know where to look! If you're into street art and city walks, you can come up with your own itinerary and discover our city's hidden cultural gems thanks to the interactive maps by Art Public Montréal and MURAL.
So far in 2022, Montreal has been rocked by 19 murders, with victims ranging in age from 16 to 75. 12 were committed using firearms. Using the SPVM's available information about deadly crime, Narcity Québec created an interactive map of the homicides that have occurred so far in the Montreal region this year.
Bienvenue à bord the train to complete exasperation with meteoric real estate prices. A new map of the Montreal REM (Réseau express métropolitain) showing property price tags around every station might temper your dreams of owning a large, rail transit-accessible home.The map, put together by local broker Charlyse Amoussou (@immocharlyse) using data from Centris, lists median 2021 and Q1 2022 selling prices for three-bedroom houses in the area around each of the REM's planned 26 stations in Montreal, Laval, the North and South Shores.