McCormick Arena

Mary McCormick believed recreation should bring communities together. That vision still lives here today.

Through her support for community recreation facilities, she helped create safe, affordable spaces where girls and women could learn and play sports. Community rinks like McCormick Arena made skating more accessible than the private skating clubs that existed at the time, and were important for women’s participation in sport, long before girls’ hockey leagues and other organized women’s sports existed.

This International Women’s Day, we celebrate Mary McCormick, whose philanthropy helped lay the foundation for the generations of women and girls in sport today.