Montreal's Underground City (The World's Largest Underground Network!)

Today I take you on a tour through Montreal's enormous underground city. For generations the Montreal UNderground has been confusing locals and tourists alike. Now... it's my turn!
#Montreal #Canada #Quebec

[@DiscoverMontréal]

Great video Dan! Unfortunately you can't get from Place-des-Arts to McGill underground, unless you go south toward Palais des congrès and the World Trade Centre (where you started) and then connect from there to Square Victoria to ICAO and through Place Bonaventure and then up toward PVM and then McGill, but it's not easy. The main heart of the underground is basically a U, and the top right of the U is Place-des-Arts, with McGill being the top left. We need to build some tunnels to connect them and close off the gap, maybe one day! Let me know if you ever want a tour it could be fun!

[@danielomalley4394]

That section of the deadly Berlin Wall was donated by the city of Berlin, a gift to celebrate MTL’s 350th anniversary. Ironically it is directly above where the 17th/18th century stone wall dividing what is now known as Old Montreal from the native Iroquois, on whose land it was built. Before those buildings were glassed over, it was known as ‘ruelle des fortifications’, or ‘Fortification Lane’. Go behind City Hall, and you can see remnants of the wall.

[@shday1]

Hi Dan, I used to pass through the World Trade Centre every day while headed to work. In case you didn't know, there's actually another way to get to the underground from that building, it's at the opposite end from the one you found. You passed right by when you entered.

[@palmsky1119]

Really cool how it's all connected and how freaking massive the underground is. Sucks to get lost but hey at least you can find new things 😅. It must be great for activities during the winter. Video quality was great! Also this was a good French listening practice for me ( my French is kinda rusty😅) !

[@christinecamley]

Terrific video Dan! I will be in Montreal for a conference this week! Live this city! Cheers!

[@thoughtsontravelandlife]

Enjoy!

[@EliasBac]

Been in Montreal 11 years and only know parts of these places, I honestly just prefer short walks outside even in the Cold lol I find the “underground city” too confusing

[@alainrouleau]

Pretty crazy walk... And you got it all in one shot too, thanks.

[@samxdavidson]

Great vid. Thanks for showing the this

[@RKM514]

Les tunnels et passages cachés avec les appartements et condos sympa-vampires sont intéressants à trouver.

[@allanstotland]

Great video Dan thank you!

[@michaelclark9991]

Love the way you wander, it is the very best way to discover new places.

[@jonasmalloy5629]

Or not to find😅

[@lamaludwig1470]

Being a German visiting Montreal this year I stumbled upon the Berlin wall piece at my first day in Montreal. ;-)

[@BuenDiaEnMiami]

Thank you so much for the video! It’s our last night in Montreal and we’re across the street from the Wall! We just saw it! I would post a pic if knew how! Merci!

[@Andy1076]

A tourist like me could get easily lost in a place like this! SO many twists and turns that cut through all of the city whew! It's so cool how everyone knows exactly where they are going too. 😀

[@ReadMoreSayLess]

Yellow, from Coldplay's debut album Parachutes. Saw them at Hollywood Bowl in 2003. Best ever concert. :) Thanks for the video #DanVineberg

[@thoughtsontravelandlife]

Hahaha you got it! 😎

[@mspeters1]

Great video Dan. I have been to Montreal many times and have never been to most of these. Eaton centre is about it. They should offer headphone set with GPS guide

[@jonasmalloy5629]

Strangely enough on a visit from UK my wife and I got lost going underground trying to get to any area to shop. Lucky for us we were helped by a lovely young lady called Louise who walked us through the system.

[@jonasmalloy5629]

Goes to show you Montrealers are always happy to help.

[@ramb1zizo788]

❤nice walj and comment...

[@carpanini1]

I spent a good bit of time wandering aimlessly through deserted corridors going nowhere. When you finally do get anywhere, youre in basically a mall. So, if thats youre thing, go for it. A walk up and down Rue St. Paul is mire fun.

[@lamjedmoussi5652]

Great job, i love it ❤❤❤

[@thoughtsontravelandlife]

Thanks!

[@mapledripcomics]

Dan thanks for these videos! I have a 5 year plan to escape ontario and these vids are very helpful

[@ivanalonsoriverarosas3654]

I have also a 2 year plan to leave Vancouver. May I ask your reasons on leaving Ontario ? You haven’t moved because of french language?

[@mapledripcomics]

@ivanalonsoriverarosas3654 the mass migration is really hurting the quality of life. I also don't drive, and ontario was already car centric, and our services are deteriorating at a rapid pace.

[@ivanalonsoriverarosas3654]

@@mapledripcomics oh okok make sense. The same is happening in Vancouver. Why 5 years though ?

[@mapledripcomics]

@ivanalonsoriverarosas3654 it seems like a realistic time frame to get all my ducks in a row, plus if I do go to quebec I could learn basic French (enough to get by)

[@aiguesvives30]

Merci pour cette découverte je suis venu au Québec et à Montréal je ne suis jamais descendu dans cette partie de la ville je visiterai ça la prochaine fois.

[@milhouse7145]

As a Montrealer, I had no idea a piece of Berlin Wall was in CCM. I may have to go check it out this weekend 🙂

[@gilandre71]

Il me semble que lorsqu'on va nulle part, on trouve le chemin qui va nulle part... Si on regarde bien les gens affairés qui se déplacent dans ces lieux, ils semblent aller quelque part et cela est donc assez déterminant pour trouver son chemin. En résumé, si on veut se déplacer du point A au point B, le point A étant l'endroit de départ où on se trouve, il est impératif de déterminer le point B, l'endroit où on veut se rendre, si on veut obtenir la ligne qui réunit ces deux points; n'est-ce pas évident mon cher Watson ? "Bien sûr mon cher Sherlock"

[@davisz2465]

Beauty place, Amazing the german wall piece!!!! question why isn´t people. almost is empty?

[@juliusvinh109]

The empty parts are not used much when it's still pleasant to walk out side , but in the Winter time , people use them, it's a cold country in Canada so they built lots of them, in other city like Calgary, they built bridges connecting from building to building a lot for people walking around in downtown core too .

[@1tonymontana]

Hello, what camera do you shoot with?

[@thoughtsontravelandlife]

This is with Osmo Pocket 3, you can find reviews of it on my channel

[@jonasmalloy5629]

You summed this video up at the end by saying "I don't know what I am doing" On the good side it was hilarious!! My wife and I have travelled to Montreal recently and could have hired a guide dog to do better. To make it worse you are from Montreal. It is difficult to find the correct path sometimes but stepping outside "weather permitting" probably shows your destination across the road. You didn't know Des Jardin had a hotel on 3rd floor. Mmm? We return again in a week and if we see you we will offer help to find your destination.

[@Montrealphotochick]

No you have to go via metro place des arts there until McGill. Then the rest is pretty much connected.

[@willybobo8846]

impressive... they need to make a maps app for it...

[@TheNewfoundout]

When you got off that elevator at Place Desjardins you were so close to the underground passe way to Place des Arts you headed right past where you should have gone.

[@Montrealphotochick]

I was yelling to him he missed it!! I felt bad.

[@Montrealphotochick]

Ollys marks down a case at 5 pm Fridays and one or two other days a year so it’s buy one get one free. Pass by there then !

[@Montrealphotochick]

Im a pro at the underground but my husband is not and he and a buddy had a little puff of magic lettuce and were trapped for a couple hours and never could escape. Yes it is confusing and no good maps.

[@Montrealphotochick]

Days a week sorry

[@Easy4unow]

What kind of video camera are you using?

[@thoughtsontravelandlife]

Osmo pocket 3. Check my other videos i have reviews on it

[@Easy4unow]

Do you use any fliters? What is your settings on the white balance?

[@user-iw4jl6bc8h]

In front of the world trade center ( piece of the Berlin wall) at the Square Victoria , you will also find the only Paris entrance metro outside Paris given to the city of Montreal for its 375 th birthday.

[@capricornebete-a-cornes8671]

This access to the Square Victoria station of the Montreal metro, inaugurated in February 1967, the year of Expo67, in Art Nouveau style, was offered by the city of Paris, to mark the collaboration of the two cities for the construction of the Montreal metro which, like the RATP Paris metro, runs on tires. It has nothing to do with the 375th anniversary of the founding of Montreal, celebrated in 2017. On the other hand, to mark the 350th anniversary of the Quebec metropolis, Paris offered Montreal the Obelisk located on Sherbrooke Street East, opposite Notre-Dame Hospital, which is part of the CHUM.

[@calvinguile1315]

Is there any residential areas down there?

[@user-iw4jl6bc8h]

Of course ,there are people living in every 19 boroughs of Montreal including downtown , financial districts and Old Montreal . A city of 400 years old, built on an Island 10 times the size of Manhattan with the largest urban parks in Canada and 1,000 km of biking infrastructure . Montreal is a UNESCO city of design a nd creativity and # 1 most sustainable city in the world with greenhouse roof tops and urban farms manages by AI ( articicial intelligence ) . Montreal is also a world leader in AI ( Mila ) , 3 rd world largest aerospace center after Toulouse and Seatle , 7 universities ( english and french ) connected to the world iand leader in medecine research, engineering, pharma, aerospace , transport and finance .

[@calvinguile1315]

@@user-iw4jl6bc8h i actually meant in the underground part, but yes I loved Montreal, I visited a couple times, years ago

[@petermateer]

Is it just a giant mall?

[@zainabkamran3498]

Does it have tickets to visit?

[@thoughtsontravelandlife]

no, just walk

[@capricornebete-a-cornes8671]

Montréal's underground RESO is 32 km long, which could be a long walk. Fortunately, there is the metro between the main points of attraction, hotels, office and residential towers, shopping centers with some 25,000 boutiques and shops of all kinds. This underground network is the largest in the world and began in 1959, with the construction of Place Ville-Marie and the Gare Centrale downtown Montréal.The RESO even crosses the Saint-Laurent River via the yellow line of the metro towards Longueuil, where there are residential towers, the University of Sherbrooke and shopping centers.

[@calvinguile1315]

Sometimes it seemed like you got lost in the back rooms

[@RKM514]

Les Galeries d'Anjou = le meilleur magasinage si l'on cherche des plus bas prix.

[@user-iw4jl6bc8h]

aucun rapport

[@markray3273]

it starts at place bonaventure

[@RKM514]

Je voulais aimer notre sous-terrain, mais c'est caché partout. Le Palais de congrès de Montréal (prononcé palay de coangray de Monrial) a deux connexions entre le Palais et les bâtiments gouvernementaux sous le Quartier Chinois, plus deux connexions cachées entre le Quartier Chinois, la place Desjardins, la place des arts, et même une connexion entre Place des Arts et McGill et Peel. La seule raison que je connais ces endroits esf parce que j'ai travaillé en Centre-ville. Chaque fucking fois que je dois utiliser Bonaventure je retrouve perdu. Je connais le clinique de radiologie à place Desjardins, je devais faire exrayé mon docteur m'a envoyé là. Le tunnel entre Place des Arts et la Station Place des Arts est à droit food court (grillades Gran Torino).

[@infiveg]

Может я неправильно понял, но метро у вас меньше даже нашего в Москве, я уж не говорю про Японское или Китайское метро))) Тебе нужно больше бывать за границей. Ты откуда переехал в Монреаль?

[@juliusvinh109]

He didn't mean the Metro is big , but the underground path connecting to other Metro stations as well as shopping centers , in the Winter when it's really cold, you don't have to go out side in the downtown core, just walk inside the tunnel from one spot to the other, it's a long interesting underground tunnel.

[@obitum]

The metro and many building got underground access that are all connected making it an underground city kinda.

[@markray3273]

ask some one

[@user-iw4jl6bc8h]

Dan, there were maps , signs and arrows everywhere for directions but you did not look at the signs on the walls and ceillings . I guess it is difficult to talk , film , entertain and find your way . guess people cant focus and read anymore ..In Montreal, all maps , signs are at the entrance and exit of buildings and metro stations . Always look up close to the ceiling as well .. Take care

[@ThatIsJustCrazyTalk]

Sorry, but the BERLIN wall did NOT divide East Germany from West Germany. It divided East Berlin from West Berlin; hence, the name BERLIN Wall.

[@thoughtsontravelandlife]

Correct you are. I don't remember what I said when I filmed this but if I said Germany I definitely misspoke