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.
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“Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the courage of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendships of some of the Polynesian nations, far surpass any thing of a similar kind among the polished communities of Europe.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)
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—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“If I could put my woods in song,
And tell what’s there enjoyed,
All men would to my gardens throng,
And leave the cities void.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)