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Clean and nice apartment located in Town of Mont Royal TMR.
The town was founded in 1912. It was created at the initiative of the Canadian Northern Railway. The town was designed by Frederic Todd, a planner who was heavily influenced by the likes of Ebenezer Howard and incorporated many aspects of the City Beautiful movement into his design. The plan was to build a new town (or "model city" as it was called) at the foot of the mountain. The company bought 4,800 acres (19 km˛) of farmland, and then built a rail tunnel under Mount Royal connecting their land to downtown Montreal. The profits from the venture helped finance the development of Canadian Northern's transcontinental railroad, which eventually became a significant constituent of the Canadian National Railway system.
Mount Royal has always been an upper-class community, and until the 1960s its population was almost exclusively anglophone and largely of English or Scottish ancestry. This began to change after Quiet Revolution, as francophones gained access to the well-paying careers. Mount Royal became popular with these "nouveau riche", and today the community is 46% francophone.
The town was merged with the city of Montreal on January 1, 2002. On June 20, 2004 the residents of the town voted to demerge from Montreal following the calls for de-amalgamation. Mount Royal was re-established as a town on January 1, 2006.
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