Centre Étienne Desmarteau
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| Address | 3430 Rue de Bellechasse |
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| Location | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Coordinates | 45°33′20″N 73°34′49″W / 45.55556°N 73.58028°W |
| Owner | City of Montreal |
| Capacity | Hockey: 2,200 (Caroline Ouellette rink 1) 600 (Jean Trottier rink 2) |
| Surface | Multi-surface |
| Opened | 1976 |
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| Montreal Mission (NRL) | |
The Centre Étienne Desmarteau is a multi-purpose complex with two ice rinks in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
History[edit]
The centre is named in honour of Étienne Desmarteau, a Canadian Olympic athlete during the 1904 Summer Olympics. The arena hosted the basketball preliminaries during the 1976 Summer Olympics.[1] Following the Olympics, it has been used mostly as an ice hockey venue, while the gyms are used for a variety of sports including indoor soccer, basketball and rhythmic gymnastics.
Description[edit]
The first ice rink in the complex has 2,200 seats and is named after Caroline Ouellette.[2][3] The second, smaller rink, the Ice rink Jean Trottier,[4] has a 600-person seating capacity. There are also two Olympic gymnasiums, some changing rooms, and one weights room for training.
Tenants[edit]
It was once home to Montreal Juniors hockey team and Les Canadiennes a women's ice hockey team in the Canadian Women's Hockey League. The Montreal Mission, a professional team in the National Ringette League, calls the arena home. Furthermore, numerous amateur tournaments are held in it every year.[5] The upstairs gym contains the home of the Club Rythmik Quebec,[6] a rhythmic gymnastics club offering training up to international level, as well as recreational, pre-competitive, and parent and child classes.
Gallery[edit]
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Ice Rink Caroline Ouellette -
Ice Rink Caroline Ouellette -
Ice Rink Jean Trottier
References[edit]
- ^ 1976 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 124-9.
- ^ On September 11, 2010, the Centre Etienne-Desmarteau named one of the rinks in the center in Ouellette's honour Archived October 2, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ journal Rue Frontenac (in French)
- ^ Jean Trottier was a social worker who helped young people of the Rosemont district. Trottier was the founding president of the Committee of the Rosemont Young people Association, the Comité des Jeunes de Rosemont: , Comité des Jeunes de Rosemont, un peu d'histoire (in French)
- ^ (in French) Journal Rosemont-La Petite Patrie, Place aux Filles, le centre Étienne-Desmarteau : le plus occupé de la Coupe Dodge Archived July 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, 22 mars 2011
- ^ Club Rythmik Quebec official website
External links[edit]
- Direction to Centre Étienne Desmarteau 3430 rue de Bellechasse, Montreal
- Some Informations in Arrondissement.com (in French)
- Étienne-Desmarteau hôte de la seconde Coupe Montréal de hockey féminin in journal de Rosemont -La Petite Patrie, February 13, 2008 (in French)
- Les Stars de Montréal lancent leur saison à Étienne-Desmarteau in Montréal Express journal, December 2008. (in French)
- Place aux Filles, le centre Étienne-Desmarteau : le plus occupé de la Coupe Dodge in Journal Rosemont- La Petite Patrie, March 22, 2011. (in French)
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