City Quote by Julie Payette

My mom's father came from a family of 11 children who came over from the island of Ischia, Italy, and settled in Providence, RI.…

— Joanna Going

I am from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I was born there, and I am a twelfth Montrealer.

— Julie Payette

My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been Poland. The…

— William Shatner

I was born in Montreal and came from a lower-middle-class family.

— Maureen Forrester

I grew up in a town called Cornwall, Ontario, which is about an hour outside of Montreal.

— Ryan Gosling

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and…

— Maria Monk

What people referred me as is the Father of Manitoba.

— Louis Riel

I love Montreal. I love the people, I love the history.

— Stephen Thompson

Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was…

— Joseph Boyden

“A constant stream of red-shirted choppers came and went, men from the north and coastal fishermen—Irish, Bluenoses, Province men, a few French Canadians, St.…

— Annie Proulx

I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants.

— Sidney Altman

Yes, there's Montreal, but my real home, where my kids were born, where I became a citizen of this country, is New Jersey.

— Martin Brodeur