Victoria Arena was built before World War I and was the main ice hockey arena in Calgary until the Stampede Corral opened in 1950.
Victoria Arena was the home arena of the Calgary Tigers, a professional ice hockey team, site of its home games in the Western Canada Hockey League from 1920 through 1934.
The arena hosted the Allan Cup championship for senior men's ice hockey, which the Calgary Stampeders hosted as the Western finalist in 1946 and 1950, winning the 1946 championship.
The arena completed its useful life as a curling rink, comprising four sheets on the former ice hockey surface and an additional two sheets in attached sheds.
During its final years as a curling rink the seating bleachers were condemned as unsafe and cordoned off from public access.