Montreal Kit is about Montreal, its boroughs, its districts and areas, and its cities. According to the MAMROT, the Ministère des affaires municipales, des régions et de l'occupation du territoire, there is a total of 1,135 municipalities in the province of Quebec and Montreal is the centre of the metropolitan community.
La Région métropolitaine de Recensement de Montréal - RMR
The RMR, the Région métropolitaine de Recensement de Montréal, represents more than 4,000 square kilometers and includes five administrative regions, the totality of Montreal and Laval and part of the Montérégie, the Laurentides and Lanaudière.
The RMR is the most important population centre of the Quebec region as well as its most important economic centre. According to the 2006 census, the population totaled 3,635,571 inhabitants, or 48% of the Quebec population.
The RMR economy focuses primarily on the service sector and includes retail, business services, wholesale, accommodation and catering. It also increasingly focuses on various areas of the knowledge economy.
Aerospace accounts for more than 40,000 jobs, life sciences for more than 43,000 and information technology for almost 120,000. In addition, 80% of all the industrial R&D; expenditures come from the RMR.
The CMM serves as a planning, coordinating and funding body for 82 municipalities.
The CMM has powers over ten areas: 1) air quality, 2) economic development, 3) facilities, infrastructure, services and activities of metropolitan importance, 4) geomatics, 5) land planning, 6) metropolitan blue and green spaces, 7) public transit and metropolitan arterial road network, 8) social and affordable housing, 9) waste management planning and 10) wastewater.
The Island of Montreal
Montreal is an island with 315 km of shorelines. The city hosts 2,100 green spaces, which cover 6,500 hectares or 13 % of the territory.
Within these green spaces, the Island of Montreal has a network of 22 large parks among which approximately twelve are nature parks.
Nature parks are large parks preserved in their natural state. Their natural environments are accessible to the population and provide various opportunities. The Mount-Royal Park, a natural park located in the center of Montreal covers more than 200 hectares.
Montreal is among the cities with the greatest number of community gardens. It is estimated that 10,000 households take advantage of this activity every summer, and enjoy their connection with plants and soil.
Montreal Kit
Montreal Kit is currently working on describing the 19 boroughs and districts of the City of Montreal as well as the 16 reconstituted cities.
Each borough, each district, each city is a witness of the past as well as a unique residential, commercial or social, environment in a constant evolution.
Here, on this page, we are simply trying to give you a general idea of the territory that surrenders the Island of Montreal, of the way the Island is organized and of the words we use to describe it all.
Enjoy!
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