[2] The club's first course was a 9-hole layout on Fletcher's Field in Mount Royal Park, which the red-coated golfers shared with the public on the then outskirts of Montreal.

The first woman to join, and the first female member of any golf club in North America, Mrs. William Wallace Watson (née Florence Stancliffe), was elected in 1891.

It was only in 1959 that the Sisters purchased the Royal Montreal Clubhouse which remained home to Queen of Angels Academy secondary school until 2014.

Among other duties, it organizes the major national championships, including the Canadian Open, the first of which was played at Royal Montreal in 1904.

[citation needed] Royal Montreal hosted the Presidents Cup in 2007 and five Canadian Opens at the Île Bizard location (1975, 1980, 1997, 2001 and 2014).