The episode featured the park's giant roller coaster, haunted house with a dragon on the front and its old-fashioned carousel.
In 1992, the amusement park was used as a backdrop in the Are You Afraid of the Dark? episode "Laughing in the Dark" (season 1, episode 2) and was given the fictional name "Playland". Never recovering from the negativity surrounding the tragic event, the aquarium permanently closed in 1991. Abandoned by their trainers, and left to starve in isolation, 3 dolphins died as a result of the neglect. In 1980, blue-collar workers at La Ronde's Alcan Aquarium enacted a 41-day strike, refusing to enter the aquarium to feed or care for its dolphins. Two weeks later, on July 22, a fourth drowning death occurred when a man attempted a swim across Dolphin Lake at late-night, after the park had closed. In 1979, on July 8, the drowning deaths of three people occurred at La Ronde's Dolphin Lake when "The Mississippi" tour boat, ferrying up to 60 passengers, capsized. In 1973, on July 8, the drowning deaths of two police officers occurred at La Ronde's Dolphin Lake, after the officers attempted to aid an intoxicated woman who had fallen into the water that night. Although long since demolished, La Ronde's main entrance is built around the former train station, and an (abandoned) train bridge still sits in the St Lawrence river to the east of the park. Its terminus station sat right above La Ronde's main entrance, and brought off-island visitors directly to the park during Expo 67 and the early days of Man and His World. In 1972, the rapid transit train system that served La Ronde, the Expo Express, permanently closed in October. After Expo 67 World's Fair, the City of Montreal continued to run the amusement park for the next 34 years.
nightly, after the rest of the Expo site closed down at 10:30 p.m. The rides, restaurants and beer halls of La Ronde remained open until 2:30 a.m. The exposition was located on 400 hectares (990 acres) of man-made islands in the St Lawrence River adjacent to Montreal, and comprised six "theme" pavilions, 48 national pavilions, four provincial pavilions, 27 private-industry and institutional pavilions, and La Ronde – a 54 ha (130 acres) entertainment complex with theatres, midway attractions, drinking and dining. In 1967, La Ronde was built as the entertainment complex for Expo 67, the world fair held in Montreal from April 27 to October 29, 1967. The amusement park was built as an entertainment complex for the world's fair. La Ronde closes for the season in the last weekend of October. The amusement park opens to the public from mid-May to late October (with peak season in July). Public transit provides accessibility by means of the island's Metro station with seasonal shuttle bus service to the park.
South of the amusement park is Jean-Drapeau Park, an urban park and former grounds of Expo 67, as well as the Jean-Drapeau Metro station and Montreal Biosphere museum.Īccess to the park from Montreal and the South Shore is primarily served by the Jacques Cartier Bridge, or alternatively through Cité du Havre via the Concordia bridge at the island's opposite end. The former granite Ronde island, which the extension was made around, was destroyed by blasting and the resulting crater it left turned into Dolphin lake, which the park surrounds. The Montreal region park is located within the St Lawrence river on Saint Helen's Island, situated atop a man-made extension on its northern tip where the small (water-enclosed) Ronde Island had once been. Grounds Entrance to La Ronde in 2017, with a number of amusement rides visible in the background La Ronde, and Frontier City in Oklahoma City, are the only two company parks not officially branded as Six Flags parks. The park hosts the annual Montreal Fireworks Festival, an international fireworks competition. It occupies 59 hectares (146 acres) of Saint Helen's Island's northern tip–a man-made extension to the island in the vicinity of where the small Ronde Island had once been, and the origin of the park's name. It is the largest amusement park in Quebec and second largest in Canada. Today, it is operated by Six Flags under an emphyteutic lease with the City of Montreal, which expires in 2065. 'The Round') is an amusement park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, built as the entertainment complex for Expo 67, the 1967 World Fair.
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