Located as its name suggests on the southwestern slope of Mount Royal, Westmount is the historic home of Quebec's English-speaking community. Enclosed within Montreal, it is associated with one of its neighborhoods, but it is in fact a city with its own identity, mostly English-speaking, whose inhabitants are among the wealthiest in the country. Here, a square foot is worth its weight in gold! The higher the houses are on the foothills of Mount Royal, the more sumptuous they are. Known as the Garden City, Westmount has a huge park with a botanical garden and a public library inaugurated in 1899, the first of its kind in Quebec.
Close to downtown Montreal, Westmount is accessible by the Atwater station (green line
