The canton of Montréal is a former administrative division in the Gers department, which is itself a component of the region Occitanie, in the area formerly called Gascony, France.

It is a very rurally agrarian area, practically without tourism, in the Armagnac-Ténarèze, exclusively confessed for its production of Armagnac, foie gras and Côtes de Gascogne wines.

Lack of manpower changed the once wealthy and healthy pastoral area in a region where the population and wealth both decreased.

After the independence of Algeria, French farmers and winemakers returning to the motherland were encouraged to settle down in the Gers.

Due to the changes in the rural economics the last decade agricultural land and farms were put on the market and sold to newcomers from the north of Europe, looking for an active countryside way of life.