Le Centre sur la biodiversité de l’Université de Montréal est un lieu de conservation, de recherche et de formation sur la biodiversité situé sur le terrain du Jardin botanique de Montréal au Québec. Le centre préserve le patrimoine de plantes, d’insectes et de champignons de l’Université de Montréal.
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The Marie-Victorin Statue, created by Sylvia Daoust, is a monument in the Botanical Garden of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The monument to Brother Marie-Victorin was unveiled by Maurice Duplessis and Paul-Émile Léger on September 18, 1954.
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The Montreal Botanical Garden is a large botanical garden in Montreal, Quebec, Canada comprising 75 hectares of thematic gardens and greenhouses. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2008 as it is considered to be one of the most important botanical gardens in the world due to the extent of its collections and facilities.
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Butterflies Go Free is an annual exhibit at the Jardin Botanique de Montreal, featuring thousands of live tropical butterflies and moths released in the Grande Serre of the exhibition greenhouses. The insects are purchased in caterpillar and egg form from sustainable butterfly farms.
The exhibit, which first shown in 1997, is presented each year from February to April.
The event features a selection of the largest butterflies found globally. One such example is the Attacus atlas, also known as the Cobra moth, which boasts an impressive wingspan reaching a sizeable 12 inches.
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Olympic Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Montreal, Canada, located at Olympic Park in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district of the city. Built in the mid-1970s as the main venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics, it is nicknamed "The Big O", a reference to both its name and to the doughnut-shape of the permanent component of the stadium's roof. It is also disparagingly referred to as "The Big Owe" in reference to the high cost of its construction and of hosting the 1976 Olympics as a whole.
The stadium is one of the largest by seating capacity in Canada. After the Olympics, artificial turf was installed and it became the home of Montreal's professional baseball and football teams. The Montreal Alouettes of the CFL returned to their previous home of Molson Stadium in 1998 for regular season games, but continued to use Olympic Stadium for playoff and Grey Cup games until 2012. Following the 2004 baseball season, the Expos relocated to Washington, D.C., to become the Washington Nationals. The stadium currently serves as a multi-purpose facility for special events with a permanent seating capacity of 56,040. The capacity is expandable with temporary seating. CF Montréal of Major League Soccer has used the venue when demand for tickets justifies the large capacity or when the weather restricts outdoor play at nearby Saputo Stadium in the spring months.
The stadium has not had a main tenant since the Expos left in 2004. Despite decades of use, the stadium's history of numerous structural and financial problems has largely branded it as a white elephant.
Incorporated into the north base of the stadium, inclined at 45°, and not completed until a full decade after the stadium's opening, is the Montreal Tower. At 165 metres, it is the world's tallest inclined tower. The stadium and Olympic Park grounds border Maisonneuve Park, which includes the Montreal Botanical Garden, adjacent to the west across Sherbrooke Street.
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Space for Life is a museum district in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists of five natural museums: the Biosphere, Biodome, Planetarium, Botanical Garden and Insectarium.
Space for Life was established in 2011 as a successor body to Montreal Nature Museums. It describes itself as the largest natural sciences complex in Canada. As of 2013, its executive director is Charles-Mathieu Brunelle and Montreal executive committee member Manon Gauthier is responsible for its political oversight.
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Inauguré en mars 2011, le Centre sur la biodiversité possède des laboratoires qui accueillent des chercheurs et des étudiants. Il abrite environ deux millions et demi de spécimens, provenant principalement de trois collections : l'Herbier Marie-Victorin, la collection entomologique Ouellet-Robert et le fungarium myco-photographique du Cercle des mycologues de Montréal. Le Centre est conçu par les architectes Provencher Roy (en).