Location

1 Third Street. At the foot of Third Street, south from Lakeshor Blvd., east of Islington, west of Royal York. See Satellite map

Phone: non listed, call 311

Schedule

See Schedule tab

City Councillor

The City Councillor for this rink is Councillor Grimes

Prince of Wales Rink Profile

Compressors 100 hp plus 20 hp and 7.5 hp glycol pumps

Rink change area: 2 changerooms, rubber floors, clean

Staff: Rink operator on duty Mon-Friday 3-11pm, all day Saturday and Sunday. There are rink guards for supervised periods.

Maintenance: Rink uses a tractor to clean the ice. The tractor is housed in a garage. Rink operator says he does 3-4 scrapes a shift. He says he does floods as needed. Ice maintenance - 9 shifts a week.

Free shinny-hockey and pleasure-skating hours:

2011-2012

Free Pleasure-skating: Available a total of 14:30 hours a week , during prime time.

Free Shinny hockey: Available a total of 6:30 hours a week (supervised), 3:30 hours (unsupervised) , during prime time.

Shared use: (shinny hockey and pleasure-skating, unsupervised): weekdays 9 am to 4 pm: total of 35 hours

*prime time means after 4pm weekdays and all day on weekends

Cost to run this rink.

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Opening and closing dates:

Opens: Dec 1, 2012
Closes: Feb 24, 2013

Rink Diary 2012 - 2013

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Views of the rink

shinny with a view

From The City of Toronto Website 2012-13

For the skating schedule, go to Prince Of Wales Rink page on the City website, then click on Skating.

For up to date listings of open rinks (not the same as scheduled openings), see Current Conditions on the cityrinks.ca Home Page

If you notice a different schedule at your rink, please let us know mail@cityrinks.ca
See also the City of Toronto Outdoor Rinks web pages.

Rink Diary 2012 - 2013

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Rink Diary 2011 - 2012

Saturday Dec.3 2011

ice a bit rough in places

No open signage but rink is open. Change rooms open. There were a handful of kids playing shinny and a few parents watching. They said they knew it would open today because they checked for the permit. Ice is ok...softening a bit in the sun. Read More >>

Diary 2009-2010, Diary 2008-2009, Diary 2007 -2008