Ottawa’s Rideau Canal Prepares for Opening: A Look at the World’s Largest Outdoor Rink

Canada’s largest skating rink, the Rideau Canal Skateway, is under preparation for opening later in January. Teams have been performing flooding on the two-kilometre section of the Canal in an effort to have the skating rink open in the coming weeks. “Last night, our teams did a partial flood on a 2 km section of the [Rideau Canal] Skateway between Somerset Street and Patterson Creek,” said a Jan. 5 post on X by the National Capital Commission (NCC). “They use pumps to draw water from below the ice to flood the surface and help build the ice thickness needed to safely open the Skateway.”...