Montreal Arena

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Arena Hockey Rink of Montreal, 1899.
Arena Hockey Rink of Montreal, 1899.[1]

The Montreal Arena, also known as Westmount Arena, was an indoor arena located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on the corner of St. Catherine Street and Wood Avenue. Opened on December 31, 1898, it held 10,000 people, 4300 seated. It held a refreshment buffet and smoking rooms, with rugs available for rental to sit on.[2] It is likely the second arena designed expressly for ice hockey, after Dey's Arena in Ottawa, opened in 1896.

At first, it hosted the Montreal senior men's amateur hockey teams of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada, including the Montreal, Shamrock and Victoria hockey clubs. The Wanderers would start play there in 1904. Later, it served as the home rink for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey Association and National Hockey League from 1910 to 1918.

It was the site of hockey's first player brawl and was also used for horse shows, car shows, motor-boat displays, concerts, and bazaars.

In 1915, artificial ice-making equipment was added. The arena burned down on January 2, 1918, which led the Wanderers to disband and the Canadiens to move back to Jubilee Arena.

The owners of the Montreal Arena, "Arena Company" also built the Arena Gardens in Toronto, and operated the Toronto NHL franchise in 1917-18.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Farrell, Arthur (1899). Hockey:Canada's Royal Winter Game.  Labelled in the book as having been constructed in 1898, with a capacity of 10,000.
  2. ^ Coleman, Charles (1966). Trail of the Stanley Cup, vol 1., 1893-1926 inc. 

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Preceded by
Jubilee Arena		 Home of the
Montreal Canadiens
1910 – 1918		 Succeeded by
Jubilee Arena
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first arena		 Home of the
Montreal Wanderers
1909 – 1918		 Succeeded by
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