Ivor Wynne Stadium was a Canadian football stadium located at the corner of Balsam and Beechwood Avenues, two blocks west of Gage Avenue North in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The stadium was the home of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the CFL from 1950 until it closed on October 27, 2012. The club's previous home was the Hamilton Amateur Athletic Association Grounds. The stadium will be replaced by Tim Hortons Field, with a fixed capacity of 24,000, on the same property.From 1928, while the stands were still under construction, the civic stadium was mainly used for track & field by the Hamilton Olympic Club and men's soccer teams, while the Hamilton AAA was used more for football and cricket. The stadium had a cinder track where the Cap Cornelius secondary-school relays were held.Construction historyThe stadium, called simply the civic stadium , was originally built in 1928 to host the 1930 British Empire Games . However, playing fields had stood on the site since the city bought the land from a local farmer in 1913.The stadium was heavily rebuilt in 1970-71. In 1971, it was renamed for Ivor Wynne, a former chairman of the city Parks Board who was Athletic Director and Dean of Students at McMaster University when he died in 1970. He was considered to be largely responsible for creating McMaster's physical education course and planning its athletic complex. From 1971 to 1975, Ivor Wynne was the largest stadium in the CFL with 34,500 seats.

Hamilton's Premier Hockey Arena