« Mount Weather
Six Flags Fiesta Texas, San Antonio »

Google Sightseeing takes you on tour of the world as seen from satellite, using the free Google Earth program, or Google Maps in your web browser. Each weekday your guides James and Alex present new weird and wonderful sights as suggested by readers.

The editors: James & Alex

Île Sainte-Hélène, Montreal

Monday, 30th May 2005 by James

Île Sainte-Hélène (or St. Helen’s Island) is an island on the Saint Lawrence River and is part of the city of Montreal. Along with Île Notre-Dame. the island hosted Expo 67, for which the island was expanded and a theme park was built.

The theme park, La Ronde, recently became part of the American ‘Six Flags’ chain and now has 36 rides and 7 rollercoasters. The former American Pavilion from Expo 67 has become the Biosphere, an interpretative museum about the Saint Lawrence River. Lastly, follow the road south-west from the Biosphere to see ‘Man‘, a modern sculpture by Alexander Calder.

Thanks: Nebojsa Petrovic

Rate This Sight! 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars
(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Locations: Quebec / Categories: ,

3 Responses to 'Île Sainte-Hélène, Montreal'

  1. 1. Yehudit says: May 31st, 2005 at 2:03 am

    I went to that expo as a teen. It was mindbending. Whatever happened to the Moshe Safde apartment building?

  2. 2. Grand Strateguerre says: May 31st, 2005 at 5:56 pm

    Placemark: Habitat ‘67 by Moshe Safdie / Google Earth

  3. 3. smd says: June 3rd, 2005 at 4:16 am

    Habitat 67 page at the Canadian Architecture Collection

Leave a Reply

This form will auto-link URLs or you can use simple HTML, <a href="http://googlesightseeing.com">Like this</a>.

Link to specific places either as a Google Maps page or a decimal latitude and longitude written like this: lat/lng:55.949400,-3.200000.

If you've found an unrelated sight that you think should be posted in its own entry then use the suggestion form!