MONTREAL ECONOMY |
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Once the largest city in Canada, Montreal remains a vibrant major centre of
commerce, industry, culture, finance, and world affairs. Montreal is a major
port city, being at the start of the Saint Lawrence Seaway a deep-draft
inland waterway which links it to the industrial centres of the Great Lakes.
As one of the most important ports in Canada, it is a transshipment point
for grain, sugar, petroleum products, machinery, and consumer goods. For
this reason, it is part of the railway backbone of Canada and has always
been an extremely important rail city.
Montreal industries include pharmaceuticals, high technology, textile and
clothing manufacturing, electronic goods, transportation devices, printed
goods, fabric, and tobacco. |
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