Ottawa’s Rideau Canal Prepares for Opening: A Look at the World’s Largest Outdoor Rink

A hockey player skates off the ice after participating in Shinny Hockey Day, a Winterlude festival event where informal hockey rinks were created with pylons, boots, or gloves along the Rideau Canal Skateway for minor hockey teams to play shinny, in Ottawa, on Feb. 8, 2020. The Canadian Press/Justin Tang

Canada’s largest skating rink, the Rideau Canal Skateway, is under preparation for opening later in January.

Teams have been performing flooding on the two-kilometre section of the Canal in an effort to have the skating rink open in the coming weeks.