1883. The Ottawa Silver Sevens started with the Club, first playing at the Aberdeen Pavilion in 1904 in the Stanley Cup Games. Junior Hockey was the first tenant of the Civic Centre in 1967. The Ottawa '67's began their existence in that year and continue until today. In 1976 an attempt to house the defunct Denver Spurs in the Ottawa Civics Club lasted only a couple of games when the club folded. Finally after Ottawa Senators acquired a franchise in the National Hockey League their home games were played at the Civic Centre from 1992 to 1996 when they moved to the Corel Centre. From the earliest days of the Exhibition grounds there has been a racetrack, baseball diamonds, and a football field in the location of the present sports field. In 1961 the largest amateur curling rink in Canada was installed. After the second, 1909 grandstand was demolished in 1966 the Civic Centre with the Frank Clare Stadium above was built in 1967, with seating for 32,000, all designed by the Vancouver architect, Gerald Hamilton. The first permanent bleachers on the south side towards the canal were erected in 1962. In 1975 these bleachers were rebuilt and greatly enlarged upwards, but only after they were unsuccessfully challenged before the Ontario Municipal Board by the Glebe Community Association on the grounds that they constituted a vast and ugly intrusion into the parkway scenery and that there was not enough parking. Parking, although insufficient in quantity, was provided at a later