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Originally Posted by getbak
Also, the Victoria Arena building was originally built as a temporary arena by the Army. They were using Stampede Park as a camp prior to/during the First World War. The city agreed to let the Army use the land temporarily as long as they returned it to its original state when they were done.
When the Army was set to leave Stampede Park after the war, they were going to tear down the arena, but city council decided it would be perfect to be used as a public arena, so they told the Army to leave it and spent a million dollars to renovate it for public use (a decent chunk of change in 1918).
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Victoria Arena also BURNT DOWN a little while after the Corral opened, making the decommissioning of the Corral the first time a major Calgary arena was actually life-cycled as intended.