The Olympic Shooting Range, L'Acadie was a temporary

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located in

L'Acadie, Quebec L'Acadie is a former town in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada, on the west side of the Richelieu River, across from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. It was about 30 miles (50 km) from Montreal, and about the same distance from the U ...

. For the

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held in neighbouring

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, it hosted the

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and the shooting part of the

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events.

References

1976 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 2. pp. 186–9.
1976 Summer Olympics official report.
Volume 3. pp. 528–30, 564–83. Venues of the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic modern pentathlon venues Olympic shooting venues Sports venues in Quebec Sport in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu {{Summer-Olympic-venue-stub