The 1976 Summer Olympics were held in the francophone metropolis of Canada. In the first installment of this series about Montreal’s quirky buildings, we covered the installations that were built for ...

Jean Drapeau’s legacy was tarnished by the financial disaster that was the 1976 Summer Olympics — the extravagant, trouble-plagued stadium, the considerable cost overruns, the rampant corruption. But ...

Boris Onishchenko was sent home to the Soviet Union after he was caught cheating during the fencing portion of the modern pentathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, but you can’t understand ...

It was around 1975 when Richard Pound was preparing for the Olympic Games to be held in Montreal in the summer of 1976. As the secretary general of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), he was ...

University of Alberta provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Alberta provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. With the countdown to the Paris 2024 ...

Davis was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer over the summer and was given only four months to live. He had never smoked or drank. “I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy,” Davis told FOX 5 New York ...

For Terry Mosher and many others, the Games signalled the start of Montreal's decline as an international city because of cost overruns, corruption and the Malouf Commission.

Montreal's Olympic urn will burn outside the stadium until the first of August. It's to mark the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Olympics. The flame was re-ignited at three o'clock in the presence of ...

MONTREAL – This weekend will mark the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Montreal Olympic Games. To celebrate the 1976 Games, a three-part exhibit titled Memories of 1976 takes visitors through ...

Jean Drapeau’s first stint as mayor (1954-1957) was focused on cleaning up the city. Although he was defeated in the ’57 ...