Skating with children
CSA-approved helmets are highly recommended for all skaters, and children seven and under must be actively supervised by someone 14 or older.
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A community-flooded rink in a downtown park renamed on International Inuit Day, November 7, 2021.
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Annie Pootoogook Park is a downtown Ottawa park beside the Sandy Hill Community Centre, next to the University of Ottawa. It has carried that name only since November 7, 2021, when the park was dedicated to the Inuk artist Annie Pootoogook on International Inuit Day; the City's community and protective services committee had approved the name on February 18 of that year.
The dedication drew members of Ottawa's Inuit community, several members of Pootoogook's family, including her nine-year-old daughter, Inuit elders and Mary May Simon, Canada's first Inuk Governor General, who sat in the front row. The ceremony included traditional Inuit songs and dances and a throat-singing performance, and organizers offered traditional Inuit food afterwards.
The ice is a community-maintained outdoor sheet that the City of Ottawa classes as a rink with puddle. Its boards and lights are seasonal rather than permanent, and a fieldhouse stands at the rink.
Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.
CSA-approved helmets are highly recommended for all skaters, and children seven and under must be actively supervised by someone 14 or older.
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People in wheelchairs must wear a CSA-approved helmet on the ice, and wheels must be cleaned of sand and salt first; E-Z gliders are the only skating aid allowed.
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Follow the capacity limits posted on site, and do not go on the ice when the rink is at capacity.
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