Colisée Jean-Guy-Talbot

Trois-Rivières, QC · Public skating times & prices

An ocean-liner-style arena on the exhibition grounds that became the city's main rink in 1951

Public skating at Colisée Jean-Guy-Talbot: the next 7 days

Friday, October 16

  • · Public Skate · free
Address
1740 avenue Gilles-Villeneuve, Trois-Rivières, QC G8Y 7B6
Website
v3r.net
The white 1938 Colisée in its streamlined ocean-liner style, with COLISEE in red letters over the entrance. — Colisée Jean-Guy-Talbot
The white 1938 Colisée in its streamlined ocean-liner style, with COLISEE in red letters over the entrance. Photo: Google Maps listing · Source
The rink from a corner seat, with blue stands, the centre-hung scoreboard and banners under the arched steel roof. — Colisée Jean-Guy-Talbot
The rink from a corner seat, with blue stands, the centre-hung scoreboard and banners under the arched steel roof. Photo: Google Maps listing · Source

Trois-Rivières' 1938 colisée, renamed for Jean-Guy Talbot

The Colisée Jean-Guy-Talbot, long known as the Colisée de Trois-Rivières or simply the old Colisée, was built in 1938 at the heart of the Parc de l'Exposition, the city's exhibition and sports grounds. Its ocean-liner style makes it a visible piece of Quebec's sporting heritage. As soon as it was finished, the Canadian army requisitioned it and the other exhibition buildings, and the site served as a military camp for the whole of the Second World War.

The City took the building back in 1946 and for a few years used it mainly as an indoor roller-skating rink, until refrigeration installed in 1951 made it the main arena of Trois-Rivières. Maurice Duplessis, then head of Quebec's government and the city's member of the legislature, inaugurated it that year at a game between the Trois-Rivières Reds and the Montreal Canadiens. The QMJHL's Draveurs played there from 1969 to 1992, and it is home to the UQTR Patriotes.

It holds 2,700 seats and 800 standing places, and corridors link it to the Aréna Claude-Mongrain. On November 26, 2021, it was renamed for Jean-Guy Talbot, who played 17 NHL seasons, 13 of them with the Canadiens, and won seven Stanley Cups.

Before you head out.

Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.

Admission

Public skating is free; children 7 and under must be with someone 14 or older.

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Skates & rentals

There is no skate rental or sharpening.

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Skating with children

A limited number of free skating aids are lent first come, first served; strollers and chairs are not allowed on the ice.

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Rink rules

Strollers and chairs are forbidden at all times on the rink.

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