"When people come out here, they are amazed," said William L. Hess, a Montreal native who runs Calgary's new Canadian Venture Exchange.

"Baseball is a game of percentages," said Roth, a Montreal native who went on to a long career figuring numbers for NBC's "Game of the Week."

An important contributor was Mr. Gilles (pronounced jeel), a Montreal native of Haitian descent who is the industry's designer of the moment.

The 6-foot-9 Montreal native would be a coup for either program.

"I was there when China won the bid," said Francis Acquarone, 31, a Montreal native who has lived in the city for nearly seven years.

But Gatti, a Montreal native who fights out of Jersey City, stayed on his feet.

The singer, a Montreal native of Haitian descent, became Siena's first official signing.

Patterson appeared to hurt Gatti, a Montreal native who fights out of Jersey City, in the final rounds.

When we reached the top, Daniel Des Rosiers, a Montreal native who has been skiing for most of his 39 years, gazed down the steep path ahead and announced that the trail dropped 700 feet over the next mile.