Stade Canac
| Stade Municipal Parc Victoria |
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| Full name | Stade Canac |
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| Location | 100 Cardinal Maurice-Roy Street Quebec City, Quebec, Canada G1K 8Z1 |
| Coordinates | 46°49′7″N 71°14′0.59″W / 46.81861°N 71.2334972°WCoordinates: 46°49′7″N 71°14′0.59″W / 46.81861°N 71.2334972°W |
| Operator | City of Quebec |
| Capacity | Baseball – 4,800 |
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Left field: 315 ft (96 m) Center field: 380 ft (120 m) Right field: 315 ft (96 m) |
| Surface | Grass |
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| Broke ground | April 1, 1938 |
| Opened | May 14, 1939 |
| Renovated | 1999 |
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Quebec Athletics (Quebec Provincial League/Canadian–American League) (1939–1942) Quebec Alouettes (Canadian–American League) (1946–1948) Quebec Braves (Canadian–American League/Provincial League) (1949–1955) Quebec Indiens (Mauricie League/Provincial League) (1957–1970) Québec Carnavals (Eastern League) (1971–1975) Quebec Metros (Eastern League) (1976–1977) Québec Diamants (Quebec Junior Elite Baseball League) (1995–2011, 2014-present) Québec Capitales (Can-Am League) (1999-present) Québec Capitales Junior (Quebec Junior Elite Baseball League) (2012–2013) |
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Stade Canac is a stadium in Quebec City, Quebec. It is used primarily for baseball and is the home field for the Quebec Capitales of the Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball (Can-Am) minor league baseball team.
Originally opened in 1939, it has a capacity of 4,800 and is located within the boundaries of Parc Victoria, a municipal park and recreation area located between the Nouveau St-Roch district of Quebec City and the south shore of the Saint-Charles River.
The ballpark is often informally referred to as simply "Parc Victoria" by local residents even though the field only occupies about a quarter of the park's total area. Modest in capacity relative to the size of the city's population, it has been well-attended during Capitales home games.
In 1937, then-Premier of Quebec, Maurice Duplessis, a baseball fan, was invited to throw out the ceremonial first pitch of the Quebec Provincial League season in Trois-Rivières. During his visit, he noticed how severely damaged the stadium had become and decided to allow public funding to be used for the construction of new sport facilities in many Quebec cities. By doing so, he also wanted to create thousands of new jobs during a period of economic struggles.
In 1938, following a demand by a group representing the Quebec Athletics, the government agreed to build a new baseball stadium in Quebec City and in early April 1938, construction work began in Parc Victoria. The stadium would be completed a few months later at the end of the 1938 baseball season.
On May 14, 1939, a first baseball game was held at the new stadium. Then-mayor of Quebec City, Lucien Borne, was in attendance, which saw more than 5,000 people attend that game with the Athletics winning their first game at the stadium 6-5 against Trois-Rivières. The first Quebec player to hit a home run at Stade Municipal was Roland Gladu who would go on to play in the Majors for the Boston Braves in 1944. In 1941, the Athletics joined the Canadian–American League and became an affiliate of the Brooklyn Dodgers. From 1943 through 1945, baseball was not played at the stadium due to World War II.
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