Ravina Gardens was an ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 arena located in Toronto

Toronto

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, Ontario

Ontario

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, Canada

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. It supported amateur hockey, and professional hockey briefly in the 1920s. The location of the demolished arena is parkland, and is known as Ravina Gardens. It was located at the foot of Rowland Street, southeast of Annette Street and Evelyn Avenue in West Toronto Junction.

History

Ravina Gardens started as Ravina Rink prior to World War I

World War I

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. The area was originally the village of West Toronto Junction. It was remodelled to hold 4,500 seats in 1912. The arena was the site of numerous ice hockey leagues and was the training facility of professional teams. In 1926,the first training camp of the New York Rangers

New York Rangers

The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...

 was held there, supervised by Conn Smythe

Conn Smythe

Constantine Falkland Cary Smythe MC was a Canadian businessman, soldier and sportsman in ice hockey and horse racing. He is best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League from 1927 to 1961 and as the builder of Maple Leaf Gardens...

, who lived nearby. In 1927, it hosted the games of the Toronto Ravinas

Toronto Ravinas

The Toronto Ravinas / Toronto Falcons were a minor league professional hockey team that competed in the Canadian Professional Hockey League in the 1927–28 season....

minor professional hockey club. The arena was in use until at least the 1950s by the Humber Valley Hockey League's Hornets and Redmen. It was demolished and is now parkland (2 baseball diamonds).