Percival Molson Stadium

Percival Molson Memorial Stadium
Stade Percival-Molson

The Montreal Neurological Institute wraps around one end of Molson Stadium.
Location	475, avenue des Pins Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2W 1S4
Owner	McGill University
Capacity	23,420
Surface	FieldTurf (2004–present) Astroturf (1976–2003) Grass (1919–1975)
Construction
Opened	22 October 1915
Construction cost	C$100,000 (approx.) ($1.29 million in 2016 dollars) Renovations: $29.4 million ($32 million in 2016 dollars) Total cost: $31.4 million in 2012 dollars
Architect	Percy Erskine Nobbs
Tenants
McGill Redmen (U Sports) (1915–present) Montreal Alouettes (CFL) (1947–1967, 1972, 1998–present) Montreal Royal (AUDL) (2014–present)

Percival Molson Memorial Stadium (also known in French as Stade Percival-Molson; commonly referred to as Molson Stadium in English or Stade Molson in French) is an outdoor football stadium located downtown on the slopes of Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Named in honour of Percival Molson, it is owned by McGill University and has been the home of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League from 1947 to 1967 and again from 1998 to present. The stadium is also home to the McGill Redmen of the Quebec University Football League. The Selwyn House Gryphons high-school football team also play their home games at the stadium. The stadium has a capacity of 23,420 the result of a renovation project begun in 2009 that increased capacity from the previous 20,202.

Construction was completed in 1914 on what was then known as McGill Graduates stadium, which was located on the slope of Mount Royal, at the corner of University and Pine (avenue Des Pins). The stadium sat dormant through World War I with the cessation of football from 1914 to 1918. On July 5, 1917, Captain Percival Molson (1880–1917), a McGill University alumnus and sports star who had been instrumental in getting the stadium plan approved, was killed in action in France (Molson is the great-grandson of brewer John Molson). His will left $75,000 to the university to help pay most of the total costs for the completion of the stadium. Other individual donors whose generosity built and renovated the stadium were William C. Macdonald and John W. McConnell. Designed by Percy Erskine Nobbs, the stadium was officially dedicated as McGill Graduates' Stadium at an intercollegiate track meet on October 22, 1915. It was renamed Percival Molson Memorial Stadium on October 25, 1919 by the university's Board of Governors, in honour of their fallen hero.