La Ronde
Lakeside amusement park with roller coasters, built on an island for a nineteen sixty-seven world's fair.
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This guide to La Ronde in Montreal opens on Ile Sainte-Helene, built for Expo 67, where an aquarium once drew crowds to its dolphin pool for over a decade. In February 1980, Montreal's municipal workers walked off the job citywide, and the aquarium's own animal keepers refused to cross the picket line to feed and care for the dolphins, even as management pleaded with the city to step in.
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