Centre Étienne Desmarteau

Coordinates: 45°33′20″N 73°34′49″W / 45.55556°N 73.58028°W / 45.55556; -73.58028
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Centre Étienne Desmarteau
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The Centre Étienne Desmarteau is a multi-purpose complex with two ice rinks in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

History

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

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

It was once home to

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

  • Ice Rink Caroline Ouellette
    Ice Rink Caroline Ouellette
  • Ice Rink Caroline Ouellette
    Ice Rink Caroline Ouellette
  • Ice Rink Jean Trottier
    Ice Rink Jean Trottier

References

  1. ^ 1976 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 124-9.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ journal Rue Frontenac (in French)
  4. ^ 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)
  5. ^ (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
  6. ^ Club Rythmik Quebec official website

External links

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