Jack Williams, 12, and his sister Cara, 8, in their family’s melting ice rink in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Feb. 20, 2018. Homemade backyard rinks used to offer good skating in this part of ...

WATERLOO, Ontario — Jack Williams and his sister, Cara, sat in their kitchen watching their backyard rink melt. “Dad calls it a big birdbath,” said Jack, who is 12. Their father, Ian ...

Backyard ice rinks can be simple, or elaborate John Marshall The Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Hockey is woven into the fabric of life in Canada and parts of the northern United ...

Last year, the family won bragging rights when their rink was named best backyard rink in Canada in the Warrior Backyard Dynasty contest. They received thousands of dollars of hockey equipment as ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Hockey is woven into the fabric of life in Canada and parts of the northern United States. When it gets cold, players young and old hit the ice, whenever and ...

McLeman is the director of a website called RinkWatch.org, which began in 2012, where people can pin the location of their backyard rinks on a map and help monitor the impacts of climate change.

The rink is just the latest creative endeavor for the 34-year-old industrial designer. Santaguida’s $3,600-a-month duplex is filled with vintage espresso makers that he restores with new 3D ...

Gretzky’s road to hockey immortality started on backyard rink NHL, Ducks Unlimited Canada team up to tell stories of hockey greats getting started outdoors ...

How Canada’s hockey rinks are helping wildlife. Jordyn Read Content Creator. Published on Feb. 10, 2025, 10:00 AM. ... The Dunford family backyard rink in the Township of Douro-Dummer.

Lucas Parobek, 8, looks at his family's melting homemade ice rink in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, Feb. 20, 2018. Homemade backyard rinks, a tradition deeply imbedded in the Canadian psyche, may be ...

The simplest versions of backyard hockey rinks, the kind dotting neighborhoods across Canada, typically involve a shovel, a hose and sometimes a liner, which can be as simple as laying down ...