The North Bay Memorial Gardens is an arena located in North Bay, Ontario. It was built in 1955 and has a capacity of 4,025. The Gardens hosted the North Bay Centennials ice hockey team from 1982 until 2002, when they moved to Saginaw, Michigan. The arena's primary tenants today are the North Bay Trappers of the NOJHL, and the Nipissing Lakers men's ice hockey team of the OUA.
In 2007 Memorial Gardens was home to the Atlanta Thrashers and New York Islanders for a Pre Season game that North Bay won for being Hockeyville. The City and the Committee that brought Hockeyville to North Bay used the prize money to put up a new electronic rink sign which makes the rink look newer.
The arena will undergo a $12 million dollar renovation for the new North Bay OHL team for the 2013-2014 season, also signing a 15-year lease with the arena. As part of the renovations, the seating capacity will be increased to 4,246, the ice surface will be reconfigured to new OHL standards, 10 private boxes will be added and a new 2-level team dressing room will be built.
Famous quotes containing the words north, bay, memorial and/or gardens:
“Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.”
—Walter Reisch (1903–1963)
“Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
“I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have given themselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stones
And fenced their gardens with the Redman’s bones;”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)