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The Ottawa Redblacks will formally announce on Thursday that their June 13 “home” preseason game will be played at Quebec City.

The Canadian Football League schedule released in mid-February showed the Redblacks hosting the Montreal Alouettes on that date, but the stadium at TD Place will be in use for the Ottawa portion of the FIFA Women’s World Cup of soccer.

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Jeff Hunt, president of the sports division of Redblacks owner Ottawa Sports & Entertainment Group, confirmed then that the game versus the Alouettes would be held at Université Laval’s PEPS stadium, but the formal announcement will only be made Thursday.

The Redblacks will play their other preseason game at Hamilton against the Tiger-Cats on June 8.

They’ll kick off their second CFL regular season at Montreal against the Alouettes on June 25, and the home opener at TD Place stadium will be against the B.C. Lions on July 4.

This marks the second time in as many years that the Redblacks have not played a preseason game in Ottawa. Last year, construction on TD Place stadium continued virtually right until the home opener against the Toronto Argonauts on July 18.

By then the Redblacks had played preseason contests at “home” in Regina against the Saskatchewan Roughriders and at Montreal and had played their first two regular-season games at Winnipeg against the Blue Bombers and at Edmonton against the Eskimos.

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