The city attracts some of the best acts on the planet to festivals like Osheaga, Just for Laughs, Francos de Montréal, the Montreal International Jazz Festival, Nuits d'Afrique. . . the list goes on.

So far, some 400 first-year students from the university's Montreal and Trois-Rivières, Que., campuses have visited the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts or Raymond-Lasnier Exhibition Centre in Trois ...