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Did you know ...

• the bombing of an Italian courthouse, the arrests of five Indian police officers, and the funeral for Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto's son are among the events in organized crime so far this year?
• the Tunnel de la mort (Death tunnel), an intersection in Montreal, was the scene of an inordinate number of serious car accidents?
• the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal (pictured) near Montreal attracts 181,000 visitors and 23,000 boaters, making it the second busiest canal and locks in Quebec?
• the captain of the cargo liner SS Beaverburn was given a gold-headed cane for commanding the first ship in 1947 to reach the port of Montreal?
• the members of Montreal-based electronic music duo Beast first met while working for a video game company?
• when Canadian nun and midwife Rosalie Cadron-Jetté (pictured) founded the Hospice de Sainte-Pélagie in Montreal in 1845, it operated out of the attic of a house leased by her son?
• the name of the Montreal nightclub Les Foufounes Électriques means "electric buttocks" in English?
• the Ottawa-Bonnechere Graben across Ontario from Montreal to Lake Nipissing, a depression formed by ancient faults, is a failed arm of the ancestor of the Atlantic Ocean?
• the Alfa Romeo Montreal was so named because it was first unveiled in prototype form at Montreal's Expo 67 world's fair?
• Charron Island, near Montreal, has been known historically under at least four different names?
• Montreal up-and-comers Hollerado accompanied The Stills to the TransmitCHINA conference, an event established to promote musical exchange between Canada and the People's Republic of China?
• Montreal Mayor Aldis Bernard was the first President of the Dental Association of the Province of Quebec when it was founded in 1869?
• Fort Senneville, built in 1671 near Montreal, included the most fortified windmill in New France, along with a machicolation and other castle-like features?
• Victoriatown, a Canadian village bulldozed by the Montreal government in preparation for Expo 67, was used as a setting for Ha Jin's award-winning novel, Waiting: a Novel?
• although the Church of St. Michael and St. Anthony (pictured) in Montreal is a Roman Catholic church, it features Byzantine architecture and a minaret-style tower?
• Yvon Pedneault is the only person to have worked full-time for all three Montreal daily papers, as well as every television station that has carried Montreal Canadiens games?
• freestyle swimmer Kim Peyton, a gold medalist at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, won a gold medal at the 1971 Pan American Games at age 14 and set three U.S. swimming records at ages 9 and 10?