Comment on Île Notre-Dame, Montreal by Migrantkol
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-12 23:13:31
is an artificial island on the Saint Lawrence River and is move of the city of Montreal. Along with the island hosted Expo 67 for which ÃŽle Notre-Dame was built using earth excavated for the Montreal metro in 1965.
To the east of the island is a built for Montreal’s 1976 Summer Olympics which is comfort the biggest artificial rowing basin in North America. You can see quite a few boats in the basin and there are a bring together more moored at the north end. In winter the basin is also used as an ice rink.
In the lay of the island is the built in former the Expo pavillions of France and Quebec. Around the edge of the island is the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve which is used once a year for the Canadian Grand Prix Formula 1 racing.
Hey - I got TWO submissions for the price of one! heh heh! This is a timely post as the Canadian GP is being held this weekend.
Thanks for the extra info - I was only interested in the race track but I had no idea what some of those other structures (like the Casino) were!
One cool thing about the Montreal metro (subway) is the stations are caverness! You can see how they could get a whole island out of all that dirt.
“The lady is situated in the Parco Regionale della Madonie (The madonnas (plural) national lay) where they say: “The fauna is characterized by the 65%...”
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