http://cyclingfunmontreal.blogspot.c...rome-1976.html

webpage that shows photos of it before and as it is now. In the blurb below the shots it mentions the Montreal velodrome being the first indoor one in the world....funny, I would have thought they would be all indoor, because of the wood. As I said, I never really paid attention to racing stuff that much, but assumed that like the hardwood floor of your living room, you wouldnt have a wood, banked bike velodrome open to the rain and snow.
But what do I know?

20 years ago I was finishing uni and thinking of trips to do, so the demise of this velodrome sorta went by me. The "Biodome" is however a great place for Montreal, Montrealers and tourists. I went there this spring with some Inuit kids my son's school were doing an exchange with, and it was magic for them to walk through the "Amazon" jungle section (kids from a fly-in-only small community waaaaaaaay up north)