The park was named in honour of Raoul Jarry ( 1885 – 1930 ), a member of Montreal's City Council.

There may also be a link to the fact that Willie McCovey was one of only a few that hit home runs over the scoreboard and into a public swimming pool at Montreal's Jarry Park ( Parc Jarry ), The Expos ' home from 1969 to 1976.

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 ).

The region is home to the Montréal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport ( formerly Montreal-Dorval ), John Abbott College, Cégep Gérald-Godin, the Macdonald Campus of McGill University, the Fairview Pointe-Claire and Galeries des Sources malls, as well as Montreal's largest park, the Cap-Saint-Jacques Nature Park.

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.

Greenfield Park was a town until January 1, 2002, when it along with several other suburbs on Montreal's South Shore were merged into the amalgamated city of Longueuil.

CFCF-AM-FM-TV moved into their own facilities at 405 Ogilvy Avenue in Montreal's Park Extension neighborhood on May 19.

Dhour El Choueir event broke the record set by Tollab, Lebanese Student Federation in Montreal, with the participation of " La Troupe Folklorique Les Chevaliers du Liban " that had made a human chain of 4, 475 people dancing the dabke for more than five minutes straight at Montreal's Marcelin Wilson Park.

On March 3, 1875, the first organized indoor game was played at Montreal's Victoria Skating Rink between two sides of nine-player teams, including James Creighton and several McGill University students.

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.

He was immediately removed from the game, and was the winning pitcher in Montreal's 1 – 0 victory.

All Perry did that summer was post a 21 – 6 record and a 2. 73 earned run average, edging Montreal's Ross Grimsley to earn the Padres ' second Cy Young Award in three seasons.

( 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 ).

The game was created in 1979 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, by Canadian Chris Haney, a photo editor for Montreal's The Gazette and Scott Abbott, a sports editor for The Canadian.

In his later years, Richler was a newspaper columnist for The National Post and Montreal's The Gazette.

Richler's ambivalent attitude toward Montreal's Jewish community was captured in Mordecai and Me ( 2003 ), a book by Joel Yanofsky.

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

Although he was long retired by the time of his death, an estimated 115, 000 people of all ages paid their respects while his body lay in state at Montreal's Bell Centre.

Universal Expositions are also massive in scale, sometimes 300 or 400 hectares in size ( Montreal's Expo 67 was 410 hectares, Osaka's Expo 70 was 330 hectares, Seville's Expo 92 was 215 hectares and Shanghai's Expo 2010 528 hectares ), and Pavilions participating at a Universal Exposition can also be large, sometimes 5, 000 to 10, 000 square metres in size, mini city blocks in themselves and sometimes more than several stories in height.

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

Although Amherst was incensed at Gage's failure, and there was no immediate censure from either Amherst or the war ministry, Gage's troops were in the rear of Amherst's army in the 1760 expedition that resulted in Montreal's surrender.

In 1908, organised ice hockey was still relatively new ; the first organised indoor ice hockey game took place on 3 March 1875 at Montreal's Victoria Skating Rink .< ref >

Not a smooth skater, Stewart compensated with size, at six foot one and 195 pounds he was a giant compared to other players of that era ; toughness, amassing 119 penalty minutes ; and shooting, scoring 34 of Montreal's 91 goals during the season.

Upon his death in Outremont, Quebec in 1952 ( one day shy of his 84th birthday ), Henri Bourassa was interred in Montreal's Cimetière Notre-Dame-des-Neiges.

At the time, it was becoming clear that the Saint-Hubert Airport ( Montreal's first official airport, in operation since 1927 ) could no longer meet the city's growing aviation needs.

There Layton and his family ( his father died when he was 13 ) faced daily struggles with, among others, Montreal's French Canadians, who were uncomfortable with the growing numbers of Jewish newcomers.

The main address of ÉTS is 1100 Notre-Dame Street West in Montreal's Griffintown neighbourhood, the site of a former O ' Keefe Brewery, which was transformed to house the school.

It has a population of 24, 846 and its area of 3, 86 km² makes it the smallest of Montreal's boroughs.

That year he went on to race in the United States, capturing the important Adios Stakes in a dead heat with Jay Time, the Fox Stake, the Roosevelt Futurity, the Beaver Pace and other major races all over North America, including the Prix D ' Été at Montreal's Blue Bonnets Raceway.

Among them Montreal's jazz virtuoso Oscar Peterson ( 1925 – 2007 ) who is considered to have been one of the greatest pianists of all time, releasing over 200 recordings and receiving several Grammy Awards during his lifetime.

Since the rebranding of the TQS network to V, on August 31, 2009, all of V's owned and operated stations ( O & O ) outside Montreal and Quebec City have dropped all non-network programming and become de facto repeaters of Montreal's V O & O, CFJP-DT.

Montreal's climate subjects the Champlain Bridge to wintry cold, snowfall, and windy conditions, all of which accelerate damage to the bridge.

The area has now become Montreal's ( and French Canada's ) main media district ; CBC, Global, RDS, V and TVA are all within several blocks.

Along with an underground shopping mall, it forms the nexus of Montreal's Underground City, the world's largest, with indoor access to over 1, 600 shops, restaurants, offices and businesses, as well several metro stations in Montreal, a suburban transportation terminal, and tunnels extending all over downtown.

Nearly all of the remaining Expo 67 pavilions were demolished in 1975 to make way for a long rowing and canoeing basin for Montreal's 1976 Summer Olympics.

By 1992, however, growing financial trouble forced CKMI to drop all non-CBC programming and become a de facto repeater of Montreal's CBC O & O, CBMT.

Fugues is published as an alternative format ( 7 " X 10, 25 ") glossy magazine, similar in size to a comic book, and is distributed as a free publication not only in Montreal's Gay Village, but also all over town and in other cities across Canada.

An avant-garde event in the heart of downtown Montreal and in Montreal's Gay Village area held usually on the end of July and beginning of August every year and extending usually for a full week, it is open to all audiences, gay and heterosexual, including many events that are free.

Perhaps his most famous performance happened in game two of the 1993 Stanley Cup Finals on June 3, 1993, when he scored all of Montreal's goals in a 3 – 2 overtime win over the Los Angeles Kings in a game also marked by Marty McSorley's illegal stick penalty.

Additionally, many of Montreal's most prominent shopping complexes, including the Eaton Centre, Complexe Les Ailes, Place Montreal Trust, Promenades Cathédrale, les Cours Mont-Royal ( a high fashion shopping mall ), the Complexe Desjardins, Place Dupuis, Place Alexis Nihon, the Faubourg Sainte-Catherine and Westmount Square are all located along the street.

As obsessed as he was with the mafia, however, he was also known for his hatred of mafia organizations: resenting the fact that the Italian mafia held a stronghold on Montreal's underworld business during the 1960s, Blass was involved in minor fights with many mafia members, particularly those related to Frank Cotroni and brothers Jos and Vincenzo DiMaulo, all of which received death threats by Blass.

Montreal's Maurice Richard then sprang onto Mortson's back and they fought, and then all hands joined in.