I can't help it. No city is more romantic, more lovely, more cultured, more cosmopolitan, or has more spark and élan than Montreal. This is a touch of France less than 50 miles from the U.S. border.

Among them was the great Huron chief Kondiaronk of Michilimackinac, the most influential of France's allies. He knew Montreal was ravaged by influenza, but came anyway: "We have found many of our ...

MONTREAL — Five years ago ... Collette got a call from a fellow blacksmith working in the Alsace region of France, asking if he wanted to fly to Europe to get involved in the Notre-Dame rebuild.