Montreal is the largest and most well known city in Quebec. Nomadic first nations have occupied the areas for over 1000 years, but he modern city of Montreal was incorporated in 1832. Montreal has a population of about 1.6 million, of which, only about 60% have French as a first language. Montreal is also famous for the “underground city”, which is really a network of underground tunnels that links most of the downtown streets which are very useful in the brutal cold winters of Montreal.