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The “No” side supporters at the Verdun Auditorium

On the evening of October 24, 1995, a few days before the referendum on Québec sovereignty, the Verdun Auditorium hosted 12,500 supporters from the “No” side. Despite the […]

The “Yes” side gets its turn

On the evening of October 25, 1995, it was the “Yes” side’s turn to take over the Verdun Auditorium to motivate its supporters one last time before voting […]

Hollywood lands in Verdun

In 2001, for a rare occasion, an American production used the arena as a film set for The Reagans. The production’s location search team liked the location for […]

A hockey series that revived the rivalry between Montréal and Québec City

La série Montréal-Québec was a TV series featuring 32 hockey players, age 18 and over, forming two hockey teams: the Montréal team and the Québec City team. Each […]

The opening show is truly dazzling!

La série Montréal-Québec was a large-scale production at the Verdun Auditorium, not only because of the technical complexity of the project, but also for its sensational aspect. In […]

Recollections of the “Three Denis”

Jean-François Parenteau: Well, the “three Denis”, they are in fact more like memories that I heard about in the community, what people told me about them. Obviously, Denis […]

Rock shows at the Verdun Auditorium

Jean-François Parenteau: Well, the shows at the Auditorium, in fact, it’s… there’s something mythical in an Auditorium show. It’s that space. Today, we see the Bell Centre a […]

La Série Montréal – Québec at the Verdun Auditorium

Daniel Belliveau: La Série Montréal-Québec, that was a really particular event for me. It was large scale from a technical standpoint. Just for HD TV, we had to […]

The filming of the Jean Béliveau Docu-drama

Daniel Belliveau: For the Jean Béliveau filming, I had to modify a lot of things here. I had to change the glass, glass from Aréna Denis-Savard for those […]

Recollections of October 25, 1995 at the Verdun Auditorium

Anne-Marie Belleau: Tell us about the evening of October 25, 1995. Jean-Marc Lacoste: OK. For me, it was an important event. I came here with my wife, some other […]

Pearl Jam at the Verdun Auditorium

Marc Daoust: So, a show that was significant to me, in fact, it’s a show on which I didn’t work. The luck we had, in fact, when… when […]

The evening of October 25, 1995

[…] we sent two-thirds of the representatives from Québec to the House of Commons as sovereigntist representatives. (Applause) In ’94, in ’94, we sent the Parti québécois government […]