Why Montreal
MONTRÉAL IS…
Safe
Consistently ranked in top 5 safest cities in North America.
Inviting Climate
September Average: 20°C | 68°F
Low Cost
Cost of living in the lowest 25% when compared with 200 other international cities.
Diverse
Montreal is a multi-lingual city with nearly 60% of the population speaking both French and English. Roughly 30% of the city’s residents regularly speak additional languages, including sizable populations speaking Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Mandarin.
… AND EASY TO ACCESS
600
Daily flights
150
Direct flights to/from other cities
35
Airlines serving Montreal
Railway Hubs
Direct, fast access by train from Canada and the US
Lightrail
Direct, fast transport from downtown to the International Airport is offered every 10 mins during peak hours and every 15 mins during off-peak hours.
The International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) convenes an International Conference on Geosynthetics every 4 years. The 13th ICG will mark the first time since 1998 that the congress will be held in North America. It will be the first time the ICG will be in Canada.
Previous ICGs
- 1977 – Paris, France (1 ICG)
- 1982 – Las Vegas, United States (2 ICG)
- 1986 – Vienna, Austria (3 ICG)
- 1990 – The Hague, the Netherlands (4 ICG)
- 1996 – Singapore (5 ICG)
- 1998 – Atlanta, United States (6 ICG)
- 2002 – Nice, France (7 ICG)
- 2006 – Yokohama, Japan (8 ICG)
- 2010 – Guarujá, Brazil (9 ICG)
- 2014 – Berlin, Germany (10 ICG)
- 2018 – Seoul, South Korea (11 ICG)
- 2023 – Roma, Italy (12 ICG)
