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Inch Park is a public park in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Name
The Park is named in honour of Inch and his wife, Jaqueline. Inch, an immigrant form Scotland, purchased 100 acres, including the 18 acres where the Park now stands, in 1875, he was 17 years old at the time. He and his wife built a prosperous farm with orchards and a dairy herd. By the late 1920, development in the area led to the decision to subdivide the farm into suburban building lots. The scheme fell through during the Great Depression.

Sports facilities
The park features tennis courts, baseball diamonds, a rugby pitch and an indoor ice rink.

Ice rink
The Inch Park ice-skating rink opened as an outdoor rink on 18 December 1953. Construction of a roofed rink began on 27 March 27 1970. In 1982 the roofed rink was converted to an indoor rink In 1982, the rink became a fully-enclosed, indoor ice rink. The old rink was replaced by a modern, indoor rink in 1995.