Montreal Aquarium

The Montreal Aquarium (French: Aquarium de Montréal), also known as the Alcan Aquarium, was a public aquarium on St. Helen's Island, Montreal, Quebec. It was built in 1966 for Expo 67 and shut down in 1991. The Expo pavilion was sponsored by Alcan Aluminum Ltd., who built the site as a joint venture with the City of Montreal. The main aquarium featured penguins and a separate dolphin pool. The latter was connected to the Lake of the Dolphins (Lac des Dauphins) by a tunnel that enabled the dolphins to perform in the lake. After a workers' strike in February 1980, a couple of dolphins starved to death. The surviving dolphins were sold to Flipper's Sea School, a roadside dolphin attraction in Florida. The already failing aquarium received...