Mont-Royal

Hip short-term rental purveyor Sonder has added 251 units in Montreal since March 2020, including a 53-unit location in the perennially cool neighborhood Plateau Mont-Royal.

Thirty minutes later, the skyline of Montreal, with its massive cross on top of Mont-Royal, was in sight.

Visitors can ski and hike within city limits at Mont-Royal park, and Montreal is frequently used as a jumping-off point to plentiful outdoor activities throughout the province.

Trudeau has won three elections in Papineau, home to one of the country’s poorest postal codes – a contrast with neighbouring Mont-Royal, the wealthy riding where his father held a seat.

A few streets farther east on Avenue du Mont-Royal, Marie Bouchard, a 23-year-old political science student at Université de Montréal, was munching on a sandwich at a cafe.