Button
This creamy-white round-coated Belmont Park pin badge features a red illustration of a smiling man in a bowler hat and black lettering.
- Accession Number 2022.12.33
- Date 1983
- Materials metal, paper, plastic
- Measurements 7,5 cm
Historical context
This button promotes Belmont Park, a Montreal amusement park in operation from 1923 to 1983, located in Cartierville on the banks of the Rivière des Prairies.
The opening of this park was part of a Montreal tradition of amusement parks that included Sohmer Park (1889-1919) and Dominion Park (1906-1937), inspired by American fairgrounds. These included mechanical rides, a Ferris wheel, a carousel and a roller coaster, as well as sho...
- Accession Number 2022.12.33
- Date 1983
- Materials metal, paper, plastic
- Measurements 7,5 cm
© Pointe-à-Callière Collection, donation by Simon Turmel, 2022.012.033
Photo by Michel Julien
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