Montréal Casino & Hotel
Île Notre-Dame, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Original useNational pavilions of the Expo 67 world exhibition
- SettingÎle Notre-Dame in the Saint Lawrence river at Montréal
- VerifiedSeptember 2026
The complex stands on Île Notre-Dame, an artificial island in the Saint Lawrence river built for the world exhibition of 1967. Two pavilions from that exhibition, raised for France and for Québec, were joined and adapted, and a hotel building was added to them. The French pavilion keeps its tiered aluminium form, so the outline seen from the water is still the exhibition's own.
Inside the joined buildings are dining rooms at several levels, bars, a theatre used for concerts and shows, and rooms held for events. The hotel part carries the guest floors. The upper levels of the old pavilion are given over to eating and looking out, and the public parts are open to the river and the city beyond it.
The island around the complex is parkland, with the rowing basin from the exhibition, gardens and a circuit used for racing. The old port and the centre of Montréal lie across the water and are reached by bridge or by the metro line that stops on the neighbouring island.
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