The Montreal Technoparc, formerly known as Adacport, is an industrial park

Industrial park

An industrial park is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development...

 and former industrial dump in the Pointe-Saint-Charles

Pointe-Saint-Charles

Pointe-Saint-Charles is a neighbourhood in the borough of Le Sud-Ouest in city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Geography:...

 neighbourhood of Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, between the Champlain and Victoria bridges.

History

The site was formerly marshland adjacent to the St. Lawrence River. It was used as a landfill and dumpsite from 1866 until 1966, and then was paved to serve as a parking lot for Expo 67

Expo 67

The 1967 International and Universal Exposition or Expo 67, as it was commonly known, was the general exhibition, Category One World's Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It is considered to be the most successful World's Fair of the 20th century, with the...

. Following Expo, it served as the site of the Victoria STOLport

Victoria STOLport

Victoria STOLport was a Short Take-Off and Landing aerodrome near downtown Montreal during the mid 1970s. The STOLport had been constructed on the former parking lot for Expo 67...

.

Pollution and remediation

Now chemicals are leaching from the site into the river, and soil and water samples have dangerous levels of Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons , also known as poly-aromatic hydrocarbons or polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, are potent atmospheric pollutants that consist of fused aromatic rings and do not contain heteroatoms or carry substituents. Naphthalene is the simplest example of a PAH...

s (PAHs). The city of Montreal has announced a plan to plant willow

Willow

Willows, sallows, and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere...

 trees on the site in an attempt to reduce pollution flowing from the site into the river.

Technoparc Montreal in Saint-Laurent

Confusingly, another industrial park in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal also calls itself Montreal Technoparc.

Current use

The area is currently occupied by several industrial businesses, notably Canada's largest motion picture studio facility, La Cité du Cinéma.