Victoria Arena (Calgary)
The Victoria Arena was the main ice hockey arena in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and one of the first. It was the home arena of the Calgary Tigers, a professional ice hockey team which played in the Western Canada Hockey League which used it from 1920 until 1934. Later the Calgary Stampeders ice hockey club used it until 1950. It was located in 'Victoria Park', later the home of the Calgary Stampede. The building was also used for horse shows and livestock. The arena completed its useful life as a curling rink, comprising four sheets on the hockey ice surface and an additional two sheets on attached sheds. During its final years as a curling rink the seating bleachers were condemned for safe usage and cordoned off from public access.
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