Exhibition Forum, PNE Forum | |
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| Location | North Renfrew Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V5K 3N7 |
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| Owner | City of Vancouver |
| Operator | City of Vancouver |
| Capacity | Ice hockey: 5,050 until 1980 |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 1930 |
| Opened | 1931 |
| Renovated | 1943 by the Royal Canadian Army; est. 1980's to an exhibition facility. |
| Tenants | |
| Vancouver Canucks (PCHL) (1945–1951) Vancouver Canucks (WHL) (1952-1968) Vancouver Skating Club and the Connaught Skating Club also shared both ice surfaces with the hockey teams. Beginning in the late '50s, the VSC named the Forum its home rink until moving to the Agrodome in 1980. The 1960 World Figure Skating Competition was hosted at the Forum as were other high level events in the skating world. Ice Capades and Ice Follies performed here as well. | |
The Forum (also known as the Exhibition Forum, Vancouver Forum and PNE Forum) is an indoor arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada located on the grounds of the Pacific National Exhibiton.
Sports, Ice Hockey and the Canucks[]
The building became Vancouver's premier indoor sports facility in 1936 when the 10,500 seat Denman Arena burned to the ground and was not rebuilt. The arena had seating for 5,050 spectators for hockey and box lacrosse. Some of the other major spectator arenas in the area besides the Forum included the Kerrisdale Arena(Vancouver) and Queen's Park Arena (New Westminster).
It hosted the Pacific Coast Hockey League's and Western Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks from 1945 to 1968. In 1968 The WHL Canucks moved to the newly completed Pacific Coliseum which was located close by on the PNE grounds (the N.H.L. version of the Vancouver Canucks started play in 1970).
The building was refurbished as a concert and exhibition space in the early 1980s. The hockey boards were removed to create more floor space. Much of the hockey seating remains however along with one of the original press boxes which is still in place. The ice plant has since been removed from the building. The various ice activities that used to take place in the Forum are now held in the Agrodome which is also located on the P.N.E. grounds next to the Pacific Coliseum. The Agrodome had a new separate ice plant installed when the move took place but now shares one with the Pacific Coliseum after the renovations that took place in that facility for the 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Olympic Winter Games.
2010 Olympic Winter Games[]
It was the Uniform and Accreditation Centre Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2010 Winter Paralympics.[1]
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| Preceded by none |
Home of the Vancouver Canucks (PCHL) 1945 – 1951 |
Succeeded by PCHL franchise merged with Western Hockey League |
| Preceded by none |
Home of the Vancouver Canucks (WHL) 1952 – 1968 |
Succeeded by Pacific Coliseum |
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