🏨 Montreal Self-guided Walking Tour and Scavenger Hunt Activity

Montreal Self-guided Walking Tour and Scavenger Hunt

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Departs: Montreal, Montreal

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Overview

Are you planning a visit and/or looking for things to do in Montreal? You should try our scavenger hunts throughout the city in Downtown, Quartier des Spectacles, and Plateau Montreal, to name but a few neighborhoods we go to.

You will be challenged at every step. Each challenge will tell you where you are going next as well as some local history and trivia.

What's Included

30+ challenges on this scavenger hunt

Scavenger hunt/walking tour on your smartphone (mobile site, not App)

What's Not Included

Admission to various sites seen on this activity are not included - this is a walking tour.

Internet access is required for this activity, WiFi is not enough.

Traveler Information

TRAVELER: Age: 0 - 120

Additional Info

Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
This activity is adapted for social distancing. Do it in a small group (up to 6). The guide is our mobile website, on your smartphone. Go at your own pace, no time limit. No need to touch anything or enter any building.
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Contactless payments for gratuities and add-ons
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
This activity is adapted for social distancing. Do it in a small group (up to 6). The guide is our mobile website, on your smartphone. Go at your own pace, no time limit. No need to touch anything or enter any building.
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

What To Expect

Complexe Desjardins

Start off your scavenger hunt with this large office/shopping complex and a simple challenge.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Place des Arts

Learn about Montreal's Arts Center, its many theatres and festivals.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Musee D'Art Contemporain De Montreal

See Montreal's Contemporary Arts Museum and its original architecture.
You'll need good observational skills to solve the challenge here.

• Admission Ticket Free

Le Studio TD

This is one of the stages of Montreal's International Jazz Festival and others.
Your challenge here requires you to count elements on the facade and convert their totals into letters of the alphabet to discover your next destinataion.

• Admission Ticket Free

Le Gesu

See this church up top, and theatre below it. Another observational challenge awaits you here.

• Admission Ticket Free

Learn the history of this last of the grand Vaudeville theatres turned movie theatres to stand in Montreal.
Your challenge here is to discover the name of a female film director.

• Admission Ticket Free

Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM)

Learn about Montreal's Quebec University that's spread out across this neighborhood in many buildings.

• Admission Ticket Free

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier

See the largest theatre in the Place des Arts, and learn what types of shows are put on here. There are weird shapes out front and your challenge here deal with them.

• Admission Ticket Free

Theatre du Nouveau Monde

This independent theatre stands across from the Place des Arts and dates to 1951. Your challenge here, however, is about a local restaurant chain and its mascot.

• Admission Ticket Free

Chinatown

Walk by Montreal's Chinatown and see one of 4 Friendship Gates.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Monument National

This is the oldest theatre in Quebec, founded in 1893. Can you name its 2 venues?

• Admission Ticket Free

Club Soda

See one of Montreal's hip musical and comedy venues.

• Admission Ticket Free

MTELUS

Learn about this 1884 theatre turned music venue and solve another challenge.

• Admission Ticket Free

Les Foufounes Electriques

This is one of Montreal's edgier music venues. Will you spot the correct art structure among the many to adorn this place?

• Admission Ticket Free

Theatre St-Denis

See one of Montreal's largest music, comedy and theatre venues on a stretch of street that's full of restaurants.

• Admission Ticket Free

Le Bordel Comedie Club

See this comedian-owned comedy club in the heart of the Quartier des Spectacles. What does the word Bordel mean? This is your challenge here should you accept it.

• Admission Ticket Free

Place Ville-Marie

Place Ville-Marie, on the north side of René-Lévesque Boulevard, is a complex of 4 buildings which includes the large + shaped tower. They are located at the 4 corners of the square.
Initially, before 1958, René-Lévesque Boulevard was in fact a large trench that crossed the city center. At the bottom were CN rail tracks that led to Central Station. The trench was crossable by several viaducts.

• Admission Ticket Free

Phillips Square

The Monument to King Edward VII by Louis-Philippe Hébert (1850-1917) was installed here in 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I.
The square honors Thomas Phillips (-1842), an entrepreneur and city councilor who owned the land here. His widow donated this land to the city.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Cathedrale Christ Church Cathedral

Below Christ Church Cathedral is a shopping center called the Promenades de la Cathedral. It is part of the Montreal underground .
The cathedral, built in 1859 in the neo-Gothic style, is the work of Frank Wills, British architect. He also designed the Christ Church in Fredericton, New Brunswick, which you can see on our scavenger hunt there.

• Admission Ticket Free

Rue Ste.-Catherine

Saint Catherine is the patron saint of single women here in Quebec. She was Catherine of Alexandria (290-307), whom we celebrate on November 25. She died very young (18 years old), was a poet and a philosopher.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Centre Eaton de Montreal

The tall building on your right is the Montreal Eaton Center, a multi-story shopping center. It is also another access point to the Montreal underground.
It still bears the name of the Eaton department store which was on its right (corner of Robert-Bourassa). Eaton’s founded by Timothy Eaton in 1869, was a big competitor to the Hudson's Bay Company, with multi-story department stores located in all major Canadian cities.
T Eaton Co closed in 1999. Sears, an American competitor, bought Eaton's bankruptcy to add high-end stores to its Canadian network, but abandoned them in 2002.

• Admission Ticket Free

Grevin Montreal

In 2013, the Musée Grévin moved to the 5th floor of the Eaton Center, where there used to be a 6-screen cinema.
Musée Grévin is a wax museum where you can see life-size Quebec and international stars. Over 125 can be seen, including Albert Einstein, Céline Dion, the Queen Elizabeth Hotel "bed in" scene, Wayne Gretzky, Marguerite d'Youville, Maurice Richard, Justin Trudeau and Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve (founder of Montreal).

• Admission Ticket Free

McCord Stewart Museum

It is a museum of Canadian heritage and history, founded in 1921.

• Admission Ticket Free

Musee Redpath

On this campus is the Redpath Museum, built in 1882. It is one of the oldest museums in Canada. Peter Redpath, its founder, was an industry magnate in Canada (sugar). It is the building at the far left of the park you are in, with the Roddick gates behind you.
It’s a natural history museum for both geology and anthropology.

• Admission Ticket Free

Golden Square Mile

At the corner of McTavish Street is an art installation called Le Joyau Royal et le Mile Doré. It is the work of Allard and Duchesneau, installed in 2017.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is located on both sides of Sherbrooke Street. There are actually 5 buildings.
Several artistic installations are found all around the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, for example the Twin Hearts of Six Feet, installed in 1999, by Jim Dine. There is also a very large Native American totem on the left side of the museum.

• Admission Ticket Free

Concordia University

1974 is the year Concordia University was founded. It is 2 blocks over.
From De Maisonneuve Street, Concordia University is one street to your right. The Sir George-Williams campus includes many buildings across several city blocks.

• Admission Ticket Free

Leonard Cohen Mural

Take the time to notice the giant Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) mural on your right. This great Montreal poet and musician was appreciated worldwide. It was painted in 2017 by Miles MacGregor (El Mac).

• Admission Ticket Free

Bell Centre

The Bell Center, to the right (south) of Montreal Canadiens Avenue, is where the NHL’s professional hockey team with the most Stanley Cups in its history, the Montreal Canadiens, play.
Opened as the Molson Center in 1996, Bell took over the name in 2002. Previously, the Canadiens played at the Montreal Forum, located at the corner of Atwater and Ste-Catherine, 2 km west of here.

• Admission Ticket Free

Place du Canada

Cross Peel Street on the north side (church side) to enter the park called Place du Canada. Originally called Dominion Square, the name was changed in 1967, Canada's centenary.
The central monument to Sir John A Macdonald was installed here in 1895, sculpted by George Edward Wade (1853-1933).

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Dorchester Square

On the north side is another park called Square Dorchester in which you can see 4 monuments:
The Robert Burns monument, installed in 1930 by George Anderson Lawson (1832-1904)
Monument to the heroes of the Boer War, installed in 1907, the work of George William Hill (1862-1934)
Monument to Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Sculpted by Émile Brunet (1896-1977) installed in 1953.
Lion of Belfort, installed in 1897, sculpted by George William Hill (1862-1934). It is along Metcalfe Street and faces the Sun Life building

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Sun Life Building (Edifice Sun Life)

East of Dorchester Square (right) is the Sun Life (insurance) building, the big white building.
This majestic building was completed in 1931 and at that time was the biggest building (in total space) in the British Empire. Its construction began in 1913 and the first 7 floors were completed by 1918. Two enlargements have brought it to what you see today.
This building is important to history, because during World War II, reserves of British gold was kept in its vault 3-storeys below street level. Operation Fish saw these values gradually transit to Ottawa and then traded on the New York Stock Exchange to finance the war effort.

• Admission Ticket Free

Cathedral of Marie-Reine-du-Monde

To the east of Canada Place is the Marie-Reine du Monde Cathedral, seat of the Archdiocese of Montreal and the 4th largest church in Quebec after Saint Joseph's Oratory and Notre-Dame Basilica in Montreal and the Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Basilica east of Quebec city.
It was completed in 1894 in Baroque and Renaissance styles. It is actually a smaller reproduction of Saint Peter’s at the Vatican. It was dedicated in 1955 by Pope Pius XII.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Theatre d'Aujourd'hui

You are in front of the Center du Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui (Today’s Theatre Center), founded in 1968 from the grouping of 3 theater troupes.
This theatrical institution is dedicated to the creation, production and distribution of Quebec and Canadian francophone dramaturgy.

• Admission Ticket Free

Monument Sir George-Etienne Cartier

In front of you is the Monument to Sir George-Etienne Cartier. This great monument was sculped by George William Hill (1862-1934) and was installed here in 1919.
Sir George-Etienne Cartier (1814-1873), 1st Baronet, was a statesman and one of the fathers of Canadian Confederation. His parents named him George in honor of King George III.
He was Prime Minister of Canada East (now Quebec) between 1858-1862 (before Confederation) then Minister of Militia and Defense under Sir John A. Macdonald between 1867-1873 in the 1st Government of Canada (confederated country in 1867).

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Mount Royal

Mount Royal Park, created in 1876, is the oldest protected area in Quebec, and one of the largest in Montreal. At its summit there are numerous trails, 2 belvederes and Beaver Lake.

• Admission Ticket Free

Museum of Jewish Montreal

Here you are in front of the Montreal Jewish Museum whose goal is to spread the history of this community through various experiences, including art, cultural events and guided tours of the neighborhood.

• Admission Ticket Free

Theatre de Quat'Sous

On the corner in front of you, on the right, is the Théâtre de Quat'sous, founded in 1955. One of the oldest theater companies in Montreal, it has moved around for many years, performing at various theatres across the city before building its home here.

• Admission Ticket Free

Rue Prince Arthur

A pedestrian road on the Plateau Mont-Royal, plenty of gardens, restaurants, and bars.

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

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