The St. Michael's College School Arena is a 1,600-seat hockey

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, Canada. It was built in 1956 on the campus of

St. Michael's College School St. Michael's College School, (also known as St. Michael's, St. Mike's, and SMCS), is an independent, Catholic school for young men in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Administered by the Basilian Fathers, it is the largest school of its kind in Canada ...

in central Toronto, and originally was an outdoor rink. A half-cylinder shape wooden roof was finally built over the ice and completed in 1960. The arena was the home to the

Toronto St. Michael's Majors The Toronto St. Michael's Majors were a major junior ice hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The most recent franchise was revived on August 15, 1996. In 2007, the team relocated to Mississauga, Ontario an ...

of the

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. The building was originally supposed to serve as a temporary home for the team following the closure of

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in 2000, but the Majors would be at the College Arena until the conclusion of the

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. The team relocated to

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and the Hershey Centre for the

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. The St. Michael's Arena is the home of the

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, a member of the

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as well as the

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teams.

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