Firehoses battle vainly against the blaze sweeping the Tam O'Shanter Golf, Curling and Skating Club in Scarborough yesterday

Original Toronto Star caption: Firehoses battle vainly against the blaze sweeping the Tam O Shanter Golf, Curling and Skating Club in Scarborough yesterday. About 200 children taking figure skating lessons fled the building, just before flames engulfed it leaving damage estimated at $2,000,000 in their wake. No one was injured. The curling season had officially opened hours before the fire broke out in the play-as-you-curl arena. Related article published in Toronto Daily Star, 4 October 1971, page 1, titled ''Tam O'Shanter fire leaves thousands without recreation''.||Tam O'Shanter Golf, Curling and Skating Club, formerly located on Kennedy Road, west side, north of Sheppard Avenue East. (43.789001, -79.296658)