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The Olympic Stadium in Quebec, Canada was originally constructed as the main venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics. It subsequently became the home of Montreal’s professional baseball and Canadian football teams. Also it hosted both cycling and judo events. If your family likes sports, you can go on the 30-minute guided tour, which takes visitors through the Sports Center and the Olympic Stadium. The area features numerous stands featuring a wide variety of food, though most of it is supplied by chain restaurants such as McDonalds.

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Baffin Island is the eastern Canadian Arctic, lying between Greenland and the Canadian mainland. Covering 507, 451 sq km, it is the largest island in North America and the fifth largest in the world. It was named after the British explorer William Baffin but the overwhelmingly Inuit population know it as Qikiqtaaluk. Photo by: mattalatta

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Located near Olympic Park, Montreal‘s huge botanical garden contains over 20,000 different plant species in 31 specialized gardens. The botanical Alpine garden is located at  Sherbrooke Street East ,at the corner of Pie-IX and Sherbrooke Streets, in Maisonneuve Park.  It attracts over 1 million visitors each year-and even in the wintertime.

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The Montreal Expo 67 defined today Montreal as a design spot to watch. Though Montreal isn’t booming quite like Toronto or Calgary, the European stone streets of the Old City are still a favorite of tourists—and of the American under-21 set looking for a beer. Many famous architects have designed university buildings and museums all over Montreal like the Faculty of Music Building at McGill University and several boutiques.

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The Montreal Biodome (Biodôme de Montréal) is situated in Montreal, Canada. It allows visitors to walk through duplicates of four ecosystems found in the Americas. The building was firstly constructed for the 1976 Olympic Games as a velodrome. It hosted both cycling and judo events. Renovations on the building began in 1989 and in 1992 the inside nature exhibit was opened.

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Montreal’s amusing 11-day winter festival is created to bring some light and warmth into local lives.This multiculturalal event, involves Montréal’s main theaters, orchestras, dance troupes and museums plus the city’s finest restaurants and hotels, warms up the winter with the best Montréal has to propose in the way of performance, culinary, lighting and visual arts. These venues also play host to renowned artists, lighting designers and world-class chefs.

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Located in the Laurentian Mountains, Mont Tremblant ski area is 75 miles (120 km) northwest of Montreal. Mont Tremblant as the most diverse runs and offers all the amenities, right on the hill. Mont Tremblant activities and recreation such as golfing, skiing, biking and skating. Tremblant offers guests 600 acres to ski and ride on with 121 acres of glades. Thirteen lifts service 94 runs.

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Habitat 67 is a housing complex and familiar landmark located in Montreal, Canada. The complex was built as part of Expo’67 – one of the world’s largest universal expositions. Its striking design was created by architect Moshe Safdie based on his master’s thesis at McGill University. The project was designed to create affordable housing with close but private quarters, each equipped with a garden. The complex was originally meant to be vastly larger. It also failed in its goal of being affordable as the building is today quite elite.

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Stretching for over two kilometers along the St. Lawrence River, the historical Old Port offers to the visitors and the natives alike access to an endless variety of recreational, maritime and entertainment activities. Admission to the site is free. The social, economic and cultural soul of Montreal ever since early French for trades used it as a trading post in 1611. Today, the riverfront welcomes over seven million visitors to year.

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