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Overlooking the City of Montreal and the Magnificent Victoria Bridge, Canada
Image by Oregon State University Archives
Image Title: Overlooking the City of Montreal and the Magnificent Victoria Bridge, Canada
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Population, 618,500. Montreal has a wonder situation. It is a thousand miles from the Atlantic and is on a great navigable river which is the outlet of the Great Lakes. But for one handicap is ice, for from the middle of December to near the end of April the river is frozen. The Ottawa River encircles the city, and logs are drifted down that river from the forested areas to the north-west.
Montreal is now the metropolis of Canada, an important railway center, and the terminus of many steamship lines. Large harvests of wheat come to Montreal from the West, in part by way of the Great Lakes and in part by rail. Lumber and wood pulp are made of the logs that are sent down the Ottawa River. The grain coming into the city has led to the establishment of flour mills and breweries. The route to the south through Lake Champlain and the Hudson valley to New York City is only 420 miles long. Large trans-Atlantic vessels bring European goods directly to Montreal and take away the raw materials which Canada sends to the Old World."
Original Format: Lantern slides
Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides
Item Number: P217:set 051 025
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Montreal skyline from McGill University
Image by slack12
Montreal, Canada.
Castor no Biodôme de Montreal / Beaver at Montreal Biodôme
Image by Márcio Cabral de Moura
No Biodôme de Montreal, Québec, Canadá.
At Montreal Biodôme, Québec, Canada
The Montreal Biodome (Biodôme de Montreal) is a facility located in Montreal that allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas. The building was originally 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 indoor nature exhibit was opened.
Contents
* 1 Biodome exhibits
* 2 Building history
* 3 Biosphère
* 4 Gallery
* 5 See also
* 6 External links
Biodome exhibits
The facility allows visitors to walk through replicas of four ecosystems found in the Americas:
* The Tropical Forest is a replica of the South American rainforest.
* The Laurentian Forest is a replica of the North American wilderness.
* The Saint Lawrence Marine Eco-system is an estuary habitat modeled on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.
* A polar area that is divided into Arctic and Antarctic.
All the exhibits are housed inside the velodrome (cycling stadium) that was used for the cycling and judo events of the 1976 Summer Olympics, with each of the four environments taking up a portion of the stadium. A variety of animals live in each simulated habitat, ranging from the macaws in the Tropical Forest, to the lynx in the Laurentian Forest, to the penguins in the Antarctic and the different kinds of fish that inhabit the waters of the Saint Lawrence River.
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