Mark Twain once says about Montreal: « You can't throw a rock in Montreal without breaking stained glass » Talking about the incredible number of church erected in downtown Montreal. Now many of tease church located on Beaver Hall are demolish but they where rebuilt elsewhere in the city.
Why so many church in Montreal? One reason is that the city has a long story of being bilinguals and multi confessional. So for basically each borough: on church for catholic Irish, an other one for French Canadians Catholic…one for Protestant, Baptist…