Centre Étienne Desmarteau
The Centre Étienne Desmarteau is a multi-purpose complex center with two ice rinks in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
History
The center 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 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 which took Caroline Ouellette's name.[2][3] The second, smaller rink, the Ice rink Jean Trottier,[4] has a 600 person seating capacity. We find also two Olympic gymnasiums, some changing rooms, and one weights room for training.
Home for
It was once home to the Le Junior de Montreal hockey team. Now Centre Étienne Desmarteau is the home of Montreal Stars a women's ice hockey team in the Canadian Women's Hockey League and Montreal Mission a professional team of the National Ringette League. Furthermore, numerous amateur tournaments are held in it every year.[5] The upstairs gym contains the home of the Club Rythmik Quebec, a very successful rhythmic gymnastics club offering training to rhythmic gymnasts up to international level, as well as recreational, pre-competitive, and parent and child classes.
Gallery
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Exterior of the Centre Étienne Desmarteau
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Ice Rink Caroline Ouellette
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Ice Rink Caroline Ouellette
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Ice Rink Jean Trottier
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ [http://exruefrontenac.com/sports/10-sport-amateur/27429-patinoire-caroline-ouellette-centre-etienne-desmarteau, journal Rue Frontenac] (French)
- ↑ Jean Trottier was a social worker who dedicated to help the 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 (French)
- ↑ (French) Journal Rosemont-La Petite Patrie, Place aux Filles, le centre Étienne-Desmarteau : le plus occupé de la Coupe Dodge, 22 mars 2011
External links
- Direction to Centre Étienne Desmarteau 3430 rue de Bellechasse, Montreal
- Some Informations in Arrondissement.com (French)
- Étienne-Desmarteau hôte de la seconde Coupe Montréal de hockey féminin in journal de Rosemont -La Petite Patrie, February 13, 2008 (French)
- Les Stars de Montréal lancent leur saison à Étienne-Desmarteau in Montréal Express journal, December 2008. (French)
- Place aux Filles, le centre Étienne-Desmarteau : le plus occupé de la Coupe Dodge in Journal Rosemont- La Petite Patrie, March 22, 2011. (French)
Coordinates: 45°33′20″N 73°34′49″W / 45.55556°N 73.58028°W
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