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MONTREAL, Quebec - A newly renovated temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Quebec represents the vast diversity of Montreal, Canada's most bilingual city.
The major design motifs for both the exterior and interior of the Montreal Quebec Temple, rededicated by President Henry B. Eyring on Sunday, come from the city's flag - with four floral emblems representing the four main European ethnic groups that settled in the area in the 19th century. A fleur-de-lis honors the French, a rose the English, a thistle the Scots and a shamrock the Irish.
"As you enter the temple you see the emblems of the founding communities in this area," said Elder Alain Allard, an Area Seventy who is chairman of the local temple committee.
Montreal is a French-speaking city with many English-speaking-residents, he said. "It is sometimes difficult. When it works it is heaven; the two communities together are heaven."
The renovated temple, he continued, will unite the two linguistic communities - and the many others in the area.
Located at 1450 Boulevard...