Thanks!

Canadian laws are different from American laws.
All bars ID everyone.

When you’re caught, you’ll be arrested and charged by police.
Which automatically means your parents get notified.

Most foreigners get deported and automatically banned from coming back to Canada for 5 years.
But not always right away.
Pretty sure the last thing your parents want is a phone call telling them you’re in jail in another country and they’re not letting you go till you’ve served your sentence.

With border agreements between Canada and the US, if you get a criminal record here it doesn’t go away when you go back to the States.
Every time someone runs your name through the system they’ll see you’ve got a criminal record.
That can ruin your chances for getting jobs, or getting into college or university after high school.

Best advice is to wait another 2 years till you’re 18.
That’s the legal drinking age in Quebec, Manitoba and Alberta.
Everywhere else in Canada it’s 19.

Language – It is the largest collection of French-speaking citizens in Canada. It is, in fact, the reason that Canada is officially bilingual. All government websites, services, and documents, are done in both English and French. Even the labels on our Hostess Twinkies are bilingual.

Architecture – The older parts of the province have unique architecture (similar to that in the French Quarter of New Orleans) not seen anywhere else in Canada. The most famous example is in the Old City portion of Quebec City. Quebec also has the oldest military forts in North America.

Food – Quebec has its own cuisine. One of its most famous inventions – poutine (French fries with gravy and melting cheese curds on top) is famous across Canada, but is becoming popular in the United States as well.

Politics – Quebec is the only province in Canada to have its own official political party (Bloc Quebecois, pronounced ‘block kay-beck-quah).

Religion – Quebec is, by an large, a Catholic province. There are more Catholics in Quebec than in the rest of Canada combined.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_licence_in_Canada#Quebec.5B24.5D

check out that site, and just click on Quebec it will bring you to the part that you need to know, it tells you everything that you need in requirements. For the pricing you’d need to call the student drivers in your area, idk if they call it the same thing in Quebec but in Ontario its the driving school and they will tell you all the up to date prices with the taxes and everything.

Hope this helped.
Bye!

This difference probably stems from the fact that Montreal’s first traffic lights were introduced in 1927, and the lights were vertical at that time. See sample photo from 1947 as more traffic lights were introduced.

http://www.stm.info/en-bref/images/chronologie/1947.12.31.jpg

I would suspect that the only reason they maintained this standard is because of convenience and historical style. To replace it with the newer horizontal lights would probably require that they dig up the cement base and rebuild it to support that slanted light, so the bolts on the bottom don’t pull out and the light topples over. Also, the slanted lights actually cover part of the roadway, so if some transport company had to bring an oversize truckload into the downtown core, the lights that slant over the roadway could actually block that load and have to be temporarily removed. So these older straight up lights actually make more sense.

By the way, not ALL of Montreal has those lights. Take a look at the corner of Henri-Bourassa and Toupin in St. Laurent area. Or in the east end, if you go to the corner of Viau and Jean Talon.

Likewise, if you check Quebec City (another town with a 400year history) and you look at many of the streets, they are using the older traffic light style. For example, the corner of Sainte Foy and Belvedere.

And I checked Boston, another historic city. If you street view for "82 Oliver Street, Boston, MA" you will see the exact same traffic lights as downtown Montreal.

Montreal weather is great in June, if you don’t mind the possibility of hot and sticky, and I bet if you’re from Virginia you don’t.