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Five proposed or underway rail projects are set to transform Montreal's metro map from Pointe-aux-Trembles to the West Island.

The interactive map below shows what it could all look like if all extensions and new lines were completed as they're currently proposed.

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It's that magical time of year when Montreal's Magnolia trees are blooming — and, in case you didn't know, there's a map that can help you find them.

The city's Magnolia trees tend to bloom in May. However, Dr. David Wees, who teaches plant science at McGill University, told us that due to Montreal's recent streak of warm weather, he suspects "most flowers will bloom at least a week earlier than usual" this year.  

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Montrealer Jonathan Rossy has created a new way to see all the apartments on Kijiji are available for rent in Montreal — an interactive digital map he's calling mtl.apartments.

Current listings are displayed in real-time and stretch across a map of the entire city. No matter where you're looking to live in Montreal, you can skip browsing hundreds of Kijiji pages and find your dream home with one convenient resource.

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Amid an exodus from the city and soaring prices, the real estate market can feel a bit bewildering right now. Thankfully, this Montreal metro map is here to help prospective homebuyers navigate their real estate journey through the city.

The map, created by Via Capitale du Mont-Royal real estate agent Charlyse Amoussou and her team, shows the median 2020 condo price in the area around all 68 metro stations.

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Several mega projects are currently underway that will transform Montreal's metro map. The extension of the STM blue line, and the addition of the Réseau express métropolitain and the REM de l'Est, will multiply the size of the city's rail transit network.

A map released by CDPQ Infra, the company behind the REM projects, gives Montrealers an exciting glimpse at the future of transit service. 

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The City of Montreal has made street parking free after 6 p.m. on weekdays in Ville-Marie until the end of 2020. But, we all know that trying to figure out the map of Montreal can be rather difficult thanks to the city's myriad of boroughs and neighbourhoods.

No matter how long you've lived in Montreal, can you ever really remember the exact borders that differentiate the Plateau from Mile-End?

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Montreal's STM always finds ways to keep its social network presence hip and fun — from calling out passengers for wearing their masks in all the wrong ways to creating memes about its own buses and writing hilarious horoscopes for each of the zodiac signs.

And now, our favourite transportation network has done it again. But this time, it took a festive and franglais route.

The STM remade the entire metro map with new holiday station names that are as clever as they are quirky.

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The city of Montreal has a website where they keep track of all the construction sites on island, but at this point it may be easier to have map of the streets that AREN'T under construction. 

When we first saw this, we were convinced it was a joke and that someone just Photoshopped a bunch of extra signs onto the original map. But then we went on the actual website and it turns out this thing is very real! 

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Canada's provinces and territories have some pretty interesting names to say the least. 

These places often derive their names from Canada's Native languages such as Algonquin, Cree, Ojibwe or Assiniboine. But what do they mean? 

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Well it's official, today is the first day of Fall.

But don't get too depressed, we still have plenty of things to look forward to.

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Montreal's Metro is more than just a means of transportation, It's a Montreal icon.

The map, the colors, the metro logo have all become part of Montreal's landscape for the last 50 years.

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Earlier this week we spotted a US map that listed every National Park in America except for Hawaii and Alaska.

The map shows you the most efficient way to visit all 47 of them in the least amount of time possible.

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