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In the good old days of shinny, rinks were as large as Mother Nature permitted. This battle was waged on Lake Couchiching, Ontario, sometime around the turn of the 20th century.

Shinny on Lake Couchiching, circa 1904
National Archives of Canada/John Edward Gardiner Curran fonds/e000943079