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The Mille Roches Arena Harv’s Diner SPORTS

By Jim Riddell ice surface from anywhere in WORD
the arena. The new arena was a THE BREAKFAST PLACE
n the fall of 1935, a group state of the art facility at the time SEARCH
Iheaded by Floyd Barkley with heated dressing rooms and brings you
formed the Mille Roches Arena a refreshment booth at the front Boston Bruins
Company and sold shares at and also featured a score board, a
ten dollars each resulting in the time clock, and a sound system. G J U X M A D L A S S L R A K F H A I Y R
construction of a new arena. In the off-season the arena was a
The new facility was completed popular spot for lacrosse games W G M M C K M N A I O T A N O D L C P E F
on December 19th, 1935 and and community dances. G U O E I C C Y A U N C B J I A I R N V N
the initial opening took place Twenty years after the Mille N O O S N A N O A H K L D L U N E Y J S O
on Christmas Day with public Roches arena was built, Hydro
skating followed by a hockey expropriated the site and prepared I B R S T B E V R N C O B Z G D A O L I S

game. The Mille Roches arena it for demolition. The Moose D V E N Y S I A A W Z R O Y N F H A Y C S
was constructed of galvanized Creek Recreation Committee R Q I E R R L C H R F N A E Y A P B K E R
iron over a timber framework approached Hydro with a plan
at an approximate cost of ten to dismantle the building and A D Z R E O L M C I W N T M N S J E C H E
thousand dollars. The oval move it to their village. The plan O S N B O F H X T F O L W S H O K L D O D
shaped building, located on the ended in tragedy on April 10th, B W E Y R I P Z N E A M S O R C I P X C N
Tait property facing the county 1958, when part way through the
road running north of the village dismantling process the building F F K I D E G L F O C O T K A F G O K K A
was 200 feet long by 90 feet collapsed injuring fifteen Y O C W T E A K G G N N T B T M S L S E M
wide. The ice surface was 180 men. Fortunately there were N L M S R L W K R K U W E O B W O R U Y L
feet long by 75 feet wide and no fatalities even though some
was brightly lit by twenty-one men had plunged from a height E A A A N U A H A E E R N R H X K A R A H
500 watt lamps. The arena had of forty feet to the concrete N F L R T F B N A W F Y K Z E P A C B M U
a seating capacity of 860 with surface below. (Information for A D F Q U B I U E L A P S E H F B B E E K
standing accommodation for this article was sourced from
500 additional spectators. The Cornwall Township Historical P E Y D U K L E A P A Y M E S E R S D V L
rafters were located so there Society and Lost Villages P B L U E L I N E I P K W A R A I E C A Y
was a clear view of the entire Historical Society newsletters) O B R E E N C E H L A R I K K U E N T C M

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DONATO BOARDING MCNEILL
KEYSER GALIPEAU CEHLARIK
BACKE LAUZON ICING
FAYNE BREAK AWAY MESSNER
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BAKOS MARCHAND INTERFERENCE
FITZGERALD BREEN MOORE
KRUG HALAK CLIFTON
BJORK MCAVOY JOHANSSON
FORSBACKA BUKAC PENALTIES
KUHLMAN HEINEN CREASE
BLIDH MCINTYRE KAMPFER
FREDERIC CARLO SLAP SHOT
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and all Jr A teams across Harv’s Diner

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to honour and pay tribute “ Where Winning Teams Start Their Day”

to the Humboldt Broncos 619 Pitt Street, Cornwall

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