Schwartz's
The table
The Main's eternal lineup: hand-smoked brisket on rye, medium-fat, since 1928. Celine Dion liked it so much she bought in.
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Schwartz's boulevard, The Main, was the official line dividing Montreal's francophone east from its anglophone west — street numbers still restart there.
La Chasse-galerie
Snowbound lumbermen upriver struck a deal with the Devil to fly home to Montreal in a canoe for New Year's Eve — on two conditions: touch no church steeple, speak no name of God. They paddled across the sky, danced till nearly dawn, and made it back by a whisker. Some winters, Quebecers say, you can still spot a canoe crossing the moon.
The local landmark
Mount Royal Cross, Montreal stands as Montreal's defining structure — the sight that anchors the city in memory long after the meal is finished.
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