Montreal Forum
Fifteen Stanley Cups were clinched on ice that is now a cinema floor.
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Sporting News called it "the most storied building in hockey history." From 1924 to 1996, this arena hosted twelve Canadiens championships plus wins for the Maroons, Rangers, and Flames. The shell survives as a Cineplex multiplex and a Dawson College campus — the ghost of a 17,959-seat arena tucked behind a ticket booth and lecture halls.
What to look for
- The Cabot Square facade — the same exterior built in just 159 days in 1924 for C$1.5 million
- The building's sheer footprint: from 9,300 seats at opening, it expanded to hold nearly 18,000 people (including ~1,600 standing) by the time it closed
- Any Stanley Cup commemorations — 15 championships were clinched or presented here, spread across four different franchises
Metro Atwater (Green Line) drops you at the front door — northeast corner of Atwater and Ste-Catherine West.
Montreal Forum is one of 14 sights worth the detour in Montreal, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Montreal pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Montreal
- Circuit Gilles VilleneuveThe track where Gilles Villeneuve beat the world on home soil in 1978 — and it now carries his name.
- Olympic StadiumThe stadium that cost so much, Montreal renamed it "The Big Owe."
- Bell CentreCanada's largest indoor arena holds 20,962 people — and on a Canadiens night, the noise travels several city blocks.
- Habitat 67A McGill thesis project that actually got built — 354 prefabricated concrete boxes stacked into homes on the Saint Lawrence for a 1967 World's Fair.
- Notre-Dame BasilicaDeep blue vaults scattered with gold stars, and a 7,000-pipe organ that fills every corner of it.
- Montreal Museum of Fine ArtsCanada's oldest art museum, founded in 1860, now sprawls across five pavilions and draws more visitors than any other art museum in the country.