The Forum opened on November 29, 1924, at a total cost of C$1.5 million ($22.8 million in 2020 dollars ) with an original seating capacity of 9,300. The site had previously been the site of an outdoor ice hockey rink, used by Frank and Lester Patrick, Art Ross and Russell Bowie as youths. The site selected was the site of a roller skating rink named the Forum, and the name was kept. The Forum would eventually be financed by H. Even at the reduced size, the rink could not immediately find financing. Plans were scaled back for financial reasons to a rink of 9,300 seats. At the suggestion of Senator Donat Raymond, William Northey developed a plan for a 12,500 seat capacity rink. The idea to build the Forum in 1923 is credited to Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Montreal Forum under construction in 1924. It was also home to the Montreal Roadrunners and Montreal Junior Canadiens. Located at the northeast corner of Atwater and Ste-Catherine West ( Metro Atwater), the building was historically significant as it was home to 15 Stanley Cup championships: Twelve of the Canadiens and one Montreal Maroons (for whom the arena was originally built) one of the visiting New York Rangers and Calgary Flames respectively.
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Today most of the Forum building is now a multiplex cinema at first as AMC Forum managed by AMC Theatres and later by Cineplex Entertainment as Cineplex Cinemas Forum ( French: Le Cinémas Cineplex Forum).
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The Forum was built by the Canadian Arena Company in 159 days. Called "the most storied building in hockey history" by Sporting News, it was an indoor arena which served as the home of the National Hockey League's Montreal Maroons from 1924 to 1938 and the Montreal Canadiens from 1926 to 1996. Montreal Forum ( French: Le Forum de Montréal) is a historic building located facing Cabot Square in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.