Coming from a skating coach...don't get those (stupid...as I like to think) adjustable skates, or the strap on ones parents still seem to manage to find and then put their kids in skating lessons. Drives me mental when kids come to CanSkate in them and then they can't properly skate in them because they aren't very good. I play hockey and figure skate, but I would recommend getting her figure skates. Not because I've figure skated for way longer then I've started playing hockey, but because it is a much easier transition from figure skates to hockey skates, unlike the other way around. If she can learn to skate and balance on figure skates that have toe picks, it will be easier to move to a skate that has no toe picks and a balance point that is more in the middle of the boot.
Or, you could just buy her both figure skates and hockey skates and alternate them each day!
As for where to get used skates...sport chek, source for sports, sport mart usually has used hockey skates, and the best place to get used figure skates would be from ProSkate. There is one located in Midnapore and Mardaloop!
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