News

The Mount Royal cross is turning 100. The iconic Montreal symbol was born in 1924. That year, the cornerstone was blessed on June 24, St-Jean-Baptiste Day, with construction completed on Sept. 15.
The Mount Royal cross with purple lights to mark Pope John Paul ll’s death on April 15, 2005. John Mahoney The Montreal Gazette ...
The cross that sits atop Montreal’s Mount Royal will remain white, even if this is Pope Benedict XVI’s last day at the Vatican. Normally the 103-foot-tall cross’s computer-controlled LED lights turn ...
A Montreal man has a unique proposal to celebrate the city's 375th anniversary. Philippe Mailhot wants the city to add a letter "M" and a "L" on either side of the cross on Mount Royal to spell ...
Montreal's landmark electric cross on Mount Royal will be turned off Friday to allow for renovations. The 83-year-old cross will be repainted and outfitted with a new energy-efficient lighting ...
Every night the Mount Royal cross illuminates the sky and can be seen kilometers away. The lights are a white hue, but historically they haven’t always been the same colour.
A daily average of around 10,000 vehicles use the two arteries that cross Mount Royal Park, often at twice the official 40 km/h speed limit, to shorten their commute across the city.
MONTREAL — An extreme cold warning didn’t deter members of Montreal’s Catholic community on Saturday, as they braved a chilly walk up Mount Royal to commemorate the 375th anniversary of the raising of ...
A Montreal man has a unique proposal to celebrate the city's 375th anniversary. Philippe Mailhot wants the city to add a letter "M" and a "L" on either side of the cross on Mount Royal to spell out ...