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Montreal Olympics: An Insider''s View of Organizing a Self-financing Games
ISBN: 9780773576568
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Montreal Olympic Organizing Committee -- History; Olympic Games (21st : 1976 : Montréal Quebec); Olympics -- Planning;

The 1976 Summer Olympics were the most riveting Games the world had ever seen, but planning efforts in Montreal were complicated by a wilful mayor, an inexperienced head of the IOC, a federal government that stayed at arm's length, and a provincial government split along federalist/separatist lines.

Paul Charles Howell, president of HT/TH Howell Technologie, has planned large projects worldwide, including several Olympic Games, and lectured in the McGill Faculty of Management and the HÉC, Université de Montréal.Paul Charles Howell, president of HT/TH Howell Technologie, has planned large projects worldwide, including several Olympic Games, and lectured in the McGill Faculty of Management and the HÉC, Université de Montréal.