Audio Guide Details
- Duration
- 1 hour 15 minutes
- Product Type
- Audio Guide
- Venues
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- Place d’Youville
- Montreal World Trade Centre
- Place d'Armes
- Notre-Dame Basilica
Photos & Highlights
Audio Guide Description
Welcome to Montréal, the French Capital of the Americas in the middle of the grandiose St.Lawrence River. It’s a unique and multicultural city that’s proud of its French and English heritage, and also open to the world.
On this Montreal audio tour with Context Travel expert and tour guide, Bruno-Serge Boucher, you’ll find out how the city got its start. You’ll also see where the French dropped anchor, where the Catholic Church established its churches, and where English entrepreneurs founded their banks and businesses.
The tour starts on the corner of Place d’Youville and Place Royale, at the very place where Montréal was founded in 1647. You’ll walk through the Old Port, a reminder of Montréal’s industrial 19th-century past, and see where the Parliament of Canada was located in 1849. You’ll then discover St. James Street, Canada’s answer to “Wall Street”.
After being struck by the splendor of the Notre Dame Basilica of Montreal, you’ll continue to Place Jacques-Cartier, a square regularly filled with markets and festivities. You’ll end the tour at the Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours Chapel – the very same chapel that’s featured in the song “Suzanne”, by Leonard Cohen, who was a Montreal native. Along the way, you’ll hear about other prominent locals including city founders Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve and Jeanne Mance, entrepreneur John Molson, and French religious sister, Marguerite Bourgeoys.
On this 75-minute Montreal audio tour, you’ll have a chance to:
• Spot Habitat 67, a city landmark and housing complex across the Saint Lawrence River
• Visit Royal Bank Tower, where major Canadian Banks have their head offices
• Pass by St. James Theater, now one of Montréal's most prestigious multi-purpose venues, previously home to the Canadian Bank of Commerce
• Be moved by the tomb of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal
• See the Old Sulpician Seminary, one of the oldest of its kind in North America
• Grab a tasty treat from Bonsecours Market, a public food market that was the city’s main public market for 100 years
• Visit Royal Bank Tower, where major Canadian Banks have their head offices
• Pass by St. James Theater, now one of Montréal's most prestigious multi-purpose venues, previously home to the Canadian Bank of Commerce
• Be moved by the tomb of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal
• See the Old Sulpician Seminary, one of the oldest of its kind in North America
• Grab a tasty treat from Bonsecours Market, a public food market that was the city’s main public market for 100 years
By the end of this tour, you’ll have a greater appreciation for Montreal’s mixed heritage and its journey to becoming a city where there is a little sweet madness in the air!
Meet Your Expert
Bruno-Serge is an environmentally-conscious Montréal lover, who has been living in Montréal for over 40 years. He discovers new things about its people, its builders, its architecture, and its neighbourhoods almost every day. He was lucky enough to live and travel throughout Europe and Africa for over a decade - if he's honest, Paris, Brussels, Rabat and Cairo were great, but he keeps coming back to Montréal: he just can't live without Her! Bruno-Serge is also passionate, curious, witty (that's what his mom used to say!) and, above all, a people person. Being a guide gives him the opportunity to share his love for this city, its history, and the larger-than-life characters that have made Montréal. He enjoys telling their stories, discovering the places they lived, and bringing to life their exploits and accomplishments, all the way from the foundation of Ville-Marie in 1642, to the modern and cosmopolitan Montréal of the 21st century!
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How long does each event last?
Our recorded audio guides typically run for 75 minutes.
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