It was important that the design would work and be reliable as to avoid the various problems that plagued Montreal's Olympic Stadium.

Traditionally held on a Sunday at the end of November, the Grey Cup has been played in inclement weather at times, including the 1950 " Mud Bowl ", where a player reportedly came close to drowning in a puddle, the 1962 " Fog Bowl ", where the final nine minutes of the game had to be postponed to the following day due to a heavy fog, and the 1977 " Ice Bowl ", contested on the frozen-over artificial turf at Montreal's Olympic Stadium.

It was the third MLB stadium to have a retractable roof and the first in the United States ( at the time, only Toronto's SkyDome, now Rogers Centre and Montreal's Olympic Stadium had them ; others are now at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Miller Park in Milwaukee, Safeco Field in Seattle and Marlins Park in Miami ).

* Montreal's Olympic Club plays a match against an indigenous team.

* Montreal's Olympic Club organises a team to play a game against an indigenous team.

Paul Martin maintained that Pelletier was fired for remarks that he made to Montreal's La Presse newspaper attacking Olympic athlete Myriam Bédard.

On July 13, 1982, the first All-Star Game outside of the United States was held at Montreal's Olympic Stadium.

The match was played at Montreal's Olympic Stadium in front of a club-record crowd of 55, 571.

On June 30, 1978, at Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium, McCovey hit his 500th home run, and two years later, on May 3 at Montreal's Olympic Stadium, his 521st and last home run, off Scott Sanderson of the Montreal Expos.

The botanical garden is located at 4101 Sherbrooke Street East, at the corner of Pie-IX and Sherbrooke Streets, in Maisonneuve Park, facing Montreal's Olympic Stadium.

The stadium is the second largest in permanent capacity in Canada, after Montreal's Olympic Stadium.

Montreal's Olympic Stadium

Starting in 1977, the team's home venue was Montreal's Olympic Stadium, built for the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Olympic Stadium ( Montreal ) | Montreal's Olympic Stadium ( its tower completed after the Games ) was the main venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics.

The businesses in these two areas ( West End and Main ) came under regular repression, especially just before Montreal's Expo 67 World's Fair and the Olympic Games in 1976.

The open water swimming events took place in the Olympic rowing basin, legacy of Montreal's 1976 Summer Olympics, on the neighbouring Île Notre-Dame.

Stanley was first exposed to the game at Montreal's 1889 Winter Carnival, where he saw the Montreal Victorias play the Montreal Hockey Club.

Two years later, in 1957, the family acquired the Montreal Forum and the famed Canadiens Hockey Club, initiating the start of a long and glorious association with Montreal's ever popular hockey team.

The club was taken over and moved by Montreal's Club Antique-Canadien for the following season, and became the Montreal Canadiens.

His home in Montreal's Golden Square Mile later became the Mount Stephen Club.

File: Mount Royal Club, Montreal. jpg | The Mount Royal Club was founded in 1899 by a select group of Square Milers when they felt that Montreal's oldest club, the St. James ', was no longer exclusive enough.

The game became so popular that the first " world championship " of ice hockey was featured in Montreal's annual Winter Carnival in 1883 and the McGill team captured the " Carnival Cup.

( Montreal's Major League Baseball team, which played from 1969 until it moved to Washington, D. C. in December 2004, was named the Expos, in honor of the 1967 fair ).

It took the determination of Montreal's mayor, Jean Drapeau, and a new team of managers to guide it past political, physical and temporal hurdles.

After the founding of the Montreal Canadiens, a team that specifically appealed to Montreal's Francophone community, the Wanderers drew their support from Montreal's English-speaking community.

The team was mobbed by an estimated crowd of 10, 000 at Montreal's Dorval Airport.

After years of going back and forth between the Canadiens and Montreal's American Hockey League affiliate, Asham became a mainstay in the Islanders lineup with his most productive offensive season to date coming during his first season with his new team, 2002 – 03, when he scored 15 goals and 19 assists for 34 points in 78 games.

RDS also covered some of Montreal's other professional sports teams, such as the Montreal Machine WLAF football team, the Montreal Impact soccer team, the Montreal Roadrunners roller hockey team, the Montreal Express lacrosse team, and the Montreal Alouettes Canadian football team.

However, the Cup series would not be completed due to influenza infecting the whole Montreal team and causing the eventual death of Montreal's Joe Hall.

It was originally planned that Montreal's new baseball team, the Montreal Expos, would play home games at the Autostade.

Expectations were high for the defending Stanley Cup champions, but Montreal's other NHL team, the Montreal Maroons, were too strong for Victoria handily beating them three games to one and out scoring them 10 to 3.

Montreal's soccer team, the Montreal Impact, also played its home games on the large soccer pitch from 1993 to 2007.

He joined Montreal's top farm team the Nova Scotia Voyageurs after the Olympics but was unable to win a place on the Canadiens roster.

1996-1998: Montreal's Classic Rock ( despite their playlist leaning heavy towards classic rock at the time, they continued to play newer rock hits )< Br >

In July 2008, the Jazz Band was selected to play on the main stage for Montreal's JazzFest.

Annihilator are scheduled to play the main stage ( along with KISS and Motorhead ) on July 24, 2011 at Montreal's Heavy MTL Festival.

While Montreal's ownership was not opposing a union, Toronto's Conn Smythe was adamantly against it.

He also played in 14 playoff games on Montreal's way to the 1989 Stanley Cup Finals, a loss against the Calgary Flames.

All three are connected to one another by means of both underground and overground tunnels, ensuring protection against Montreal's harsh winters.

After the regular season was over, the Shamrocks made a second defense as champions of the Canadian Amateur Hockey League against the Halifax Crescents in March ; Trihey added five more goals to his playoff total as the Shamrocks overwhelmed the Maritimers in 10-2 and 11-0 victories, securing Montreal's third and final Cup win.

On April 2, 2001, Mordecai demonstrated his versatility by playing catcher in the tenth inning of a game against the Cubs after Montreal's first catcher, Michael Barrett, was ejected and their second catcher, Sandy Martínez, was injured.