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The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.

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YMCA

Worldwide youth organization

YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organisation based in Vernier, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. It was founded…
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Montreal

Largest city in Quebec, Canada

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early…
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