Thing to do in Canada

Things to Do 
Shopping

Montréal’s stores reflect the city’s cosmopolitan nature and its French heritage. The city is considered Canada’s haute couture capital, not only for the number of stores but also for their variety. Wares range from imported designer labels to local handicrafts.

Antiques 
The best concentrations of antique dealers are along rue Notre-Dame Ouest, between rue Guy and avenue Atwater, and on St-Paul in Old  Montréal. A cluster of restored graystones scattered up and down both sides of the street houses a dozen or more shops with various quaint  treasures. Discriminating collectors may want to venture to the west end of rue Sherbrooke, where exquisite mahogany, Royal Crown Derby china and popular old china and silver patterns can be had for a price. Antique dealers in Westmount also cater to a more discriminating clientele.
Bargain-hunters should visit rue Notre-Dame shops, where the prices often are negotiable.

Malls
What began in 1962 as a simple shopping center beneath Place Ville-Marie is now an underground maze of walkways stretching 30 kilometres  (18.6 mi.) and embracing 2,000 shops, 200 restaurants and 30 theaters. Subterranean promenades and the Métro connect the clusters of buildings. Most of Montréal’s spectacular shopping malls have found a home in Underground Montréal. Many malls begin underground and reach upward to several floors above ground.
Shops in the underground generally are open Monday-Wednesday 10-6, Thursday-Friday 10-9, Saturday 10-5 and Sunday 11-5. Most are closed holidays.
Place Ville-Marie, with its shop-lined corridors centered on a sculpted fountain, was the first of these subterranean centers to be built. Known to locals as PVM (pronounced pay-vay-em), the complex teems with trendy boutiques.
Other shopping clusters have since been added, including Centre Eaton, Les Cours Mont-Royal, Place Bonaventure, Place Montréal Trust and Les Promenades de la Cathédrale.

In Place Montréal Trust, underground at the corner of rue Ste-Catherine and avenue McGill College, bright atria and cascading fountains link innovative architecture and glass walls. Directly beneath Christ Church

Cathedral at 625 rue Ste-Catherine Ouest, Les Promenades de la Cathédrale has shops on two levels. Place Bonaventure, at rues de la Gauchetière and University, links some 100 shops with the Bonaventure Hilton International.
A modern restoration of the Hôtel Mont-Royal resulted in Les Cours Mont-Royal, a three-story mall at 1455 rue Peel. Centre Eaton, 705 rue Ste-Catherine, is anchored by Les Ailes de la Mode department store. Complexe Desjardins, a partially underground marvel of waterfalls, fountains, trees and hanging vines, comprises lanes of shops connected to four tall office towers and the Hotel Wyndham. These underground marketplaces present an almost endless array of merchandise, from everyday items to luxury articles. Just browsing can be as pleasurable as shopping, for the window displays are interesting.

Markets 
Open-air Jean-Talon Market on avenue Casgrain and Atwater Market, an indoor bazaar near the Lachine Canal at 138 Atwater Ave., both feature merchants offering such goods as fresh fruits and vegetables, flowers and pastries.