Catholic traditions have been credited - or perhaps blamed - for this phenomenon as Papists can sin, party and disco dance as much as they want as long as they confess on Sundays.
But Coolopolis thinks that the real reason we have more nightlife is that we have more night than other Canadian cities.
Today, for example, the sun went down at 4:55 pm. In Toronto it went down at 5:23 that's a full 28 minutes more afternoon daylight than we got. (Note to Toronto, slap on that sunscreen, you don't want to get a January sunburn - Chimples) Torontonians might work harder than Montrealers by the way, partially because of that fact. Montrealers are set to get home as it gets dark but Toronto gets a full half hour more of light, tricking them into thinking that they've still got to have their noses at the grindstone well after five.
Regina has 50 minutes more sunlight, Winnipeg 22 minutes more, Halifax 23 minutes and so forth.
Places where the work ethic isn't considered quite as intense have similar sundowns as Montreal, Vancouver, St. John's and Ottawa see their suns go down only minutes later than ours.
This, of course, is because Montreal is placed less far west in its time zone, so when the sun comes around and circles the earth each day (Stop that - Chimples) our clocks are still hitting lower numbers.
This system means that we have sumpin' those other cities don't, namely: earlier sunrises.
The sun also rises earlier here.
Everybody talks about the nightlife but nobody talks about Montreal's morninglife.
In Montreal the sun rose at 7:19 a.m. today, well before all of those other cities.
We should, logically, start branding ourselves as a morning-glory city with much longer early days than our Canadian counterparts.
Indeed we might even starting our workdays earlier than those other places as well.
While Torontonians, Ottawans, Winnipegers and other urban Canadians stumble to their desks in a semi-daze due to dark skies, we Montrealers should be brimming with perk, as nature has set us to alert at a much earlier hour.