Verdun Natatorium approximately $11,000 each year from 1946 to 1951. By 1951, the Natatorium had never lost money and was projected to fully pay off its loan in ten more years. The city of Montreal states that the main pool can accommodate 1,150 bathers while the "Montreal Gazette", in 1951, reported that the pool could handle up to 6,000 swimmers on a daily basis. The discrepancy may be due to changes to the facility and/or safety regulations, over time. In the summer 2005, a heated wading pool was added, with a capacity of up to 250 children. Verdun Natatorium The Verdun Natatorium
What Is a Nation? and continues to be invoked. Political historian Karl Deutsch, in a quote sometimes mistakenly attributed to Renan, said that a nation is "a group of people united by a mistaken view about the past and a hatred of their neighbours". Benedict Anderson's 1983 work Imagined Communities, which states that a nation is an "imagined political community", argues that Renan contradicts himself when he says French people must have forgotten the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, yet does not explain what it is. In other words, Renan assumes that all his readers will remember the very massacre he says they have forgotten.