The steel in our arena was salvaged from a General Motors plant building in Oshawa. The building was dismantled, trucked here and reassembled in a 40′ shorter version to allow for the additional snow load up here in Uxbridge. We are higher and the span between each frame was reduced so a 240′ long building is now 200′. The 20,000 square foot roof has new (ugh!) sheeting which drains into an underground cistern tank that supplies the water for horse washing, gardening and toilet flushing as well as for possible fire fighting with a hydrant outside.

The wood for the arena boards was salvaged from the former Club Monaco headquarters building floor joists on Queen Street at Spadina.

The wood cap pine boards were floor joists in the old Toronto Aethenaeum Club, 169 Church Street at Shuter in Toronto, which was built in 1891 as gentlemen’s club. It became the Labor Temple from 1904 to 1967 and has recently been redeveloped as the 28-storey “Jazz” apartment building with the original Moorish-revival façade retained. Before demolition the building was used as a set for Atom Egoyan’s award winning 1994 movie Exotica.