McCormick Arena is situated on the site of the original McCormick Recreation Centre. The McCormick Recreation Centre at 163 Brock Avenue opened 110 years ago on September 21, 1912, a Georgian Revival-style building that was Canada’s first year-round community recreation centre and Toronto’s largest one until its closure in 1964. Located next to it, the second McCormick Recreation Centre at 66 Sheridan Avenue opened on October 29, 1964, a larger and modernist-style building that was reopened later as the Mary McCormick Recreation Centre on January 25, 2003.
1913 - 1915
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1913-10-15 Brock Avenue Playground, Recreation Centre in the Background - Toronto Archives
1916
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1916-02-10 McCormick Playground Equipment Sandbox - Toronto Archives
1917 - 1922
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1917-03-07 McCormick Recreation Centre Dance - Toronto Archives
1923
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1923-02-07 McCormick Playground, McCormick Ladies Group - Toronto Archives
1924 - 1925
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1924-01-30 McCormick Playground, McCormick Ladies Group - Toronto Archives
1926 - 1934
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1926-04-09 McCormick Playground Wading Pool - Toronto Archives
1937
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1937-11-06 McCormick Playground - McCormick Minor Bantam Softball Playground and City Champions - Photo 2 - Toronto Archives
1939 - 1941
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1939-08-29 McCormick Playground Equipment Baby Swings - Photo 1 - Toronto Archives
