Olympic Sites today
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The Olympic Park, a living legacy of the Olympic Games
Fifty years after the Games were held, Montréal’s Olympic Park remains a major venue for professional and amateur sports, as well as an important recreational and tourist attraction for the eastern part of the city. We are proud to have here, in our own backyard, one of the few Olympic sites still in daily use…
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A legacy built to last
Specially designed for rowing and canoeing competitions at the 1976 Montréal Olympic Games, the Olympic basin in Parc Jean-Drapeau is one of the most iconic pieces of infrastructure in the city’s sporting legacy. Dug along the axis of Île Notre-Dame, an island created for Expo 67 and then remodeled for the Games, the basin was designed to…