Skating on thin ice: a Canadian tradition

What would Douglas Fullerton, the Rideau Canal Skateway instigator, think of today’s rink waiting game?

The failure of the Rideau Canal Skateway to be open in December was one of the rationales for the building of the much-ballyhooed rink on Parliament Hill, which Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly officially opened Dec. 7, writes Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

December 20, 2017

When I first arrived in Ottawa as a student in 1972, I logged a couple hundred kilometres skating the Rideau Canal with my then-girlfriend from December to March. Each night at 10, we would head out with our forbidden hockey sticks and pass the puck from the National Arts Centre to Carleton Universi...

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