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• Tantramar Skating Rink: 1876-1893
• Copp's Rink (1): 1896-1905
• Copp's Curling Rink: 1904-1918
• Copp's Rink (2): 1906-1918

Copp's Rink (2): 1906-1918

The second skating rink built by Hiram and Harvey Copp opened in January 1906. It was located near the southeast corner of Lorne and Bridge streets, opposite the site of the Copp brothers’ first rink. The rink surface measured 200 by 60 feet, with a promenade six feet in width extending on either side. It was 40 feet longer than the next nearest rink, the Aberdeen Rink, in Amherst, Nova Scotia. By 1907, the rink was sometimes referred to as "Copp & Dixon's Rink," and was used regularly by Mount Allison students for hockey and recreational skating.

In 1915, the Mount Allison Amateur Athletic Association began renting the curling rink on Main Street for recreational skating and hockey, and used Copp & Dixon's Rink only periodically for hockey matches before it collapsed as a result of heavy snow in November 1918. A new rink was built in December 1919, across the Athletic Field, on the east side of Lansdowne Street. It was Mount Allison’s first institutional skating rink [see below].

Copp's Rink, Lorne Street, following destruction by snowstorm, 1918

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