8th annual
Great Canadian Kilt Skate: Home edition!

Until February 28, 2022

Again for 2022, we are launching a kilt skate for pandemic times—a stay-in-your-bubble, pan-Canadian event: the Great Canadian Kilt Skate: Home Edition! Everyone, everywhere can join: on your backyard rink, on the outdoor rink at the community centre, on the frozen pond down the road. To participate, simply put on your tartan or kilt, head out on the ice and share your photos and video clips!

Be sure to include the #KiltSkate2022MTL hashtag to your social media posts so that you're counted in the contest to see who wins the Kilt Skate Capital of Canada. If you don’t use social media, you can email your photos and videos to us.

For more information about the Great Canadian Kilt Skate: Home Edition, please visit the Kilt Skate website.

“Our faces may be masked, but our knees will be bare.”

Where to skate
You can take part in the Great Canadian Kilt Skate on any frozen pond, lake or backyard rink. Here are some more suggestions:

City rinks: The City of Montreal offers public skating at a large number of indoor arenas and outdoor rinks throughout the city.

Mount Royal Park: An outdoor rink on Mount Royal beside the Beaver Lake Pavilion. Information>

Old Port Skating Rink: An urban outdoor rink located in the heart of downtown Montreal. Information>​

Domaine Enchanteur: Forested skating trails located 20 minutes north of Trois-Rivières. Information>

​Verger Labonté: Outdoor trails just outside the city in Île-Perrot. Information>

This year's entries:

Here are the entries we received for 2021:

About the Kilt Skate
In January 2015, Montreal’s St Andrew’s Society joined with other Scottish societies in Ottawa, Saskatoon, Calgary and Winnipeg and held the ​​Great Canadian Kilt Skate. We invited everyone to come to the Skating Rink at the Vieux-Port de Montreal in kilt, tartan or other Scottish gear and skate! Many came and enjoyed the whirl of the pipes and joy of skating on great ice. Since then it has become an annual event.