Autostade, Former stadium in Montreal, Canada
The Autostade was a Canadian football stadium in the Victoriatown neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec. It stood at the north-west corner of the Cité du Havre sector of the Expo 67 site and was designed by architects Victor Prus and Maurice Desnoyers with a seating capacity of 33,172.
The Autostade was built for Expo 67 and later served as the home of the Montreal Alouettes from 1968 to 1976, except for a brief return to Molson Stadium in 1972. It was demolished in 1979, but five of its sections were moved to Thetford Mines to form a new baseball stadium.
The Autostade was named after the five major auto manufacturers in Canada that financed its construction. Fans who attended games there remember it for its intimate atmosphere, well suited to Canadian football.
The stadium no longer exists, so visitors cannot access the site. The area is now a parking lot and transformer station, and there is nothing left to see of the original structure.
The stadium was designed with 19 independent pre-cast concrete grandstands that could be dismantled and re-erected elsewhere. Five of these sections were sold to Thetford Mines in 1978 and reassembled into a baseball stadium that still stands today.
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