Exhibition Stadium

Toronto Blue Jays (MLB ) ( 1977-1989 ) Toronto Argonauts (CFL ) ( 1959-1988 )

Vanier Cup (CIS ) ( 1973-1975 )

Exhibition Stadium ( officially: Canadian National Exhibition Stadium or CNE Stadium ) was a multi-functional -purpose sports stadium, which was located on the grounds of Exhibition Place in Toronto. It was originally designed as a sports venue for games of Canadian football, the Canadian National Exhibition Fair and other events. In addition, the stadium was from 1977 to 1989 the home of the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team and from 1959 to 1988 by the Toronto Argonauts. In the Exhibition stage of the Grey Cup was held over a period of 24 years a total of twelve times.

The stadium is the fourth since 1879, which was built at this location. In 1948 it was supplemented by a roof on the north side and converted it in 1959 in a football stadium to. A year earlier, the stadium was used as a NASCAR race tracks. At this time, the stadium had a maximum capacity of 33,150 seats. The mid-1970s expanded and they built it for another time, as the Toronto Blue Jays Exhibition Stadium in 1977 chose as their home stadium.

The weather susceptibility of stadium construction made ​​in the 1970s and 1980s, however, increasingly problems so that you considered the construction of a new roofed stadium, eventually led to the construction of the Rogers Centre. After it was decommissioned on 28 May 1989, and you tore it on 31 January 1999 completely. By 2006, they used the area as a parking lot and built at this point the football stadium, BMO Field, which opened in 2007.