Location

Morningside Ave, at Runnymede. Take Morningside Avenue east from South Kingsway, or Beresford Avenue south from Bloor, to Rennie Terrace. In the park. See Satellite Map

Large (free) rink parking lot.

For ice conditions, call the rink at 416-392-1103 or 392-0392.

Double pad.

Schedule

See Schedule tab

Links

See Swansea Hockey Association

City Councillor

The City Councillor for this rink is Councillor Doucette

Rennie (Double Pad) Rink Profile

Compressors 200 hp. Recirculation pump 40 hp plus a slow recirculation pump of 25 hp

This relatively new rink surface is one of the nicest in the city. It's in the former village of Swansea, which only joined Toronto in 1967. The rink is tucked into Rennie Park, right at the southern end of Runnymede Road. It has a hockey pad and a pleasure-skating pad that's built right around a tree. The pleasure-skating side has no fence around it, making moonlight skates at four a.m. a possibility. Rennie Rink had a partnership agreement with Home Depot and the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2005 and now has aluminum hockey boards, a scoreboard and a sound system.

Rink change area: The David H. Williams Clubhouse. Large and bright, two-story with many team changerooms and an observation room. Small snack bar, used on Thursday nights and on Saturdays -- menu: chips, chocolate bars, popcorn, candy. Phone: 416-392-1103 or 416-392-0392.

Staff: early weekdays - zamboni operator, 14 shifts a week; also, afternoons and evenings, there are three to five rink guards plus a rec staff co-ordinator, intensively staffed on weekends. Friendly, sociable staff.

Maintenance: On-site Zamboni, two shifts seven days a week. Very good ice maintenance, up to five times a shift.

Free shinny-hockey and pleasure-skating hours:

2011-2012

Free Pleasure-skating: Available a total of 55:30 hours a week , during prime time.

Free Shinny hockey: Available a total of 11:15 hours a week, during prime time.

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

Not much, because this rink has the city's most active children's hockey program (Swansea Hockey), plus the the Swansea Girls' Hockey League, plus the Swansea Figure Skating Association. and most of the evenings and weekends are permitted to those programs.

There are no permits available for this rink, because it's fully booked through kids' hockey.

---

Comments about this rink: e-mail us at rinkissues@cityrinks.ca.

Opening and closing dates:

Opens: Nov 24, 2012
Closes: Mar 10, 2013

Rink Diary 2012 - 2013

Dec 4, 2012

From rink user MK: "FYI, rennie was trashed over the weekend and have now stopped offering open adult skates from 10pm-midnight. Major bummer considering its one of the best pickup games in the city..."

Dec 2, 2012

Rain day, ends around 2pm. We went by Rennie tonight - surprised at the city listing it as closed. At 6pm, we found it open, skaters on the pleasure side and a hockey game going for little ones, on the other. The pleasure pad looked dry because the water simply flows of the path's sides. The hockey side was a little wet still. There were three rink guards, and maybe two maintenance staff. The zamboni hadn't been on at all.

Hockey side is open

Dec 1, 2012

Rennie Opens both the hockey side and pleasure side on time!

Read More >>

This Rink has two skating pads. Typically one side is used for pleasure skating (during hours when rink is staffed), and the other for shinny.

From The City of Toronto Website 2012-13

For the skating schedule, go to Rennie 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

Dec 4, 2012

From rink user MK: "FYI, rennie was trashed over the weekend and have now stopped offering open adult skates from 10pm-midnight. Major bummer considering its one of the best pickup games in the city..."

Dec 2, 2012

Rain day, ends around 2pm. We went by Rennie tonight - surprised at the city listing it as closed. At 6pm, we found it open, skaters on the pleasure side and a hockey game going for little ones, on the other. The pleasure pad looked dry because the water simply flows of the path's sides. The hockey side was a little wet still. There were three rink guards, and maybe two maintenance staff. The zamboni hadn't been on at all.

Hockey side is open

Dec 1, 2012

Rennie Opens both the hockey side and pleasure side on time!

Read More >>

Rink Diary 2011 - 2012

Thursday Nov.22 2012

2 pm: a thin layer of ice in a few spots, mainly water

just rime on top of maybe a bit of ice, cement at the edges

Saturday Nov.24 2012

A man from Kalamazoo said he was visiting old friends in Toronto and brought his kids to play some shinny. He tried Rennie but it was still closed at 9.30am. He said it looked like the ice was too thin.

He said he grew up in Orillia, worked all over the place and ended up in Kalamazoo. Every year he makes a big rinks there in his backyard, and when he's lucky with the weather, there's ice for three months.

Sunday Nov.25 2012

"weather excuse" sign on locked front door

at 11 a.m. there's ice, but not enough

Read More >>

Diary 2010 - 2011, Diary 2009 - 2010, Diary 2008-2009, Diary 2007 - 2008, Diary 2006 - 2007, Diary 2005 - 2006, Diary 2003 - 2004