The Centre Étienne Desmarteau is a multi-purpose complex with two ice rinks in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
History The centre 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.1976 Summer Olympics official report. Volume 2. pp. 124-9. Following the Olympics, it has been 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 and is named after Caroline Ouellette.On September 11, 2010, the Centre Etienne-Desmarteau named one of the rinks in the center in Ouellette's honour journal Rue Frontenac The second, smaller rink, the Ice rink Jean Trottier,Jean Trottier was a social worker who helped 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 has a 600-person seating capacity. There are also two Olympic gymnasiums, some changing rooms, and one weights room for training.
Tenants It was once home to Montreal Juniors hockey team and Les Canadiennes a women's ice hockey team in the Canadian Women's Hockey League. The Montreal Mission, a professional team in the National Ringette League, calls the arena home. Furthermore, numerous amateur tournaments are held in it every year. , 22 mars 2011 The upstairs gym contains the home of the Club Rythmik Quebec,Club Rythmik Quebec official website a rhythmic gymnastics club offering training up to international level, as well as recreational, pre-competitive, and parent and child classes.
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Direction to Centre Étienne Desmarteau 3430 rue de Bellechasse, Montreal Some Informations in Arrondissement.com in journal de Rosemont -La Petite Patrie, February 13, 2008 Les Stars de Montréal lancent leur saison à Étienne-Desmarteau in Montréal Express journal, December 2008. in Journal Rosemont- La Petite Patrie, March 22, 2011.