Inside Whitby Community Arena, February 26, 1955

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Creator

Marjorie Ruddy, Photographer

Media Type

Image

Item Type

Negatives

Description

A black and white large format negative of machinery inside the Whitby Community Arena.

Notes

The Whitby Community Arena was built between 1953 and 1954 on the site of the Burns and Taylor arena. It was located on the block bound by Brock, Ontario, Green, and Gilbert Streets. The Community Arena was official opened on 29 September 1954. It operated until 1972, when it was condemned under provincial building standards and demolished.

Marjorie Georgina Ruddy (1908-1980) was a prominent Whitby photographer and the only commercial photographer in Whitby during the 1930s and 1940s. Marjorie was the official photographer for the Whitby Police Department starting in the 1930s and as a result took many photographs of car accidents, fingerprints and crime scenes. (Station Gallery. Whitby Through the Lens Photographs by Marjorie G. Ruddy, 1935-1948. Whitby: Station Gallery, 2010.)

Date of Original

26 February 1955

Dimensions

Width: 4 in
Height: 3 in

Subject(s)

Ice hockey
Photographers
Sports
Arenas

Personal Name(s)

Ruddy, Marjorie

Corporate Name(s)

Whitby Community Arena

Local identifier

A2013_040_281

Collection

Whitby Online Historic Images Collection

Geographic Coverage

Whitby

Ontario, Canada

Latitude: 43.8762667054227 Longitude: -78.9400368624878

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This item is protected by the Canadian Copyright Act and is intended for one-time use only. Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). It is your responsibility for obtaining these permissions.

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