Waterloo Street Arena / Stratford Waterloo Street Rink
Stratford, Ontario

Fronting on Waterloo Street at the River Drive just southeast of the Waterloo Street bridge, now the William Hutt bridge.

Built in 1886 and demolished in the 1920's.

The Waterloo Street Arena had been a mammoth building with an ice surface 200 feet by 89 feet that housed Hockey players, curlers and skaters in the winter, boxing matches, dances and silent movies in the summer. It was bounded by Water Street, Waterloo Street South, and what is now referred to as Lakeside Drive. It fronted onto Waterloo Street and stretched to the east, parallel to Water Street.

It was eventually enlarged by the addition of a curling rink which ran to the north off the Hockey rink's east end. It never did have the insulation and ice plant to meet the increasing needs of hockey teams, recreational skaters and curlers, so in the early 1920s, a committee was formed to built a modern arena.

Original home of Howie Morenz and the Stratford Midgets.
Charlie Lightfoot also played here.