Fort Nelson Arena

The Fort Nelson Arena was an indoor arena located in Fort Nelson, British Columbia. The arena opened around 1972.

The arena had the roof collaspe around 1:30PM on April 9, 2007. The arena roof had initially showed signs of failure on Sunday, April 1st. The rink was closed and engineers surveyed the situation. It was deemed too dangerous to attempt to remove the snow and that warmer weather during the week.

The facility was replaced by the Northern Rockies Recreation Centre which opened in 2011.

Community press release on events leading up to the collapse