For all its Frenchiness, Montreal can't compete with Toronto when it comes to true international flavor. In the past four decades, Canada's largest city has drawn hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world—especially Asia—to its Lake Ontario shores. Now more than 70 languages are spoken in the city, which glitters as Canada's largest and perhaps hippest. (It doesn't hurt that Hollywood regularly sets up shop to shoot movies and for the annual international film festival.) Though the metropolis covers a lot of ground, everything your family could possibly want is right downtown. Here, commercial neighborhoods rub up against residential ones, and you can step from one culture to another within a few blocks. So for a lesson in global art and cuisine and eye-popping architecture, grab the stroller and hit the pavement.
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