Talk:Maple Leaf Gardens

Thomson Brothers
Since two cited sources list Thomson Brothers as Toronto-based, there will need to be a reference to a published source to change the location to Port Credit. Sounds credible, but Wikipedia is about verifiability, and so far all cited sources say Toronto. The other content really belongs in a new entry about Thomson Brothers and not here. Removed: ''The Thomson main yard was located at what is now the land on which the Port Credit "GO" station lies, and supplies were ferried in to the building site using the dray horses owned by another of the Thomson Brothers. At the time, a long journey. Two horses actually died while working the MLG job. The Thomsons' also owned the very first working steam shovel in Canada, which was also used when building the Eatons' College Street store. Most of the wood used was purchased from Thomson Lumber, also located on the aformentioned site, which closed when the land was sold to the Ontario Government for the station. Thomsons' were able to submit a very competitive bid mostly due to the fact that amongst the brothers' enterprises they had much of what would normally be sub-contracted taken care of.'' --BaronMind 22:03, 23 October 2006 (UTC)


 * The Toronto Star lists the Thomson Brothers headquarters as 56 Grenville St, Toronto. --BaronMind 22:18, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Thomson Brothers
John Thomson was my Great Grandfather. He and his 5 brothers were the "Thomson Brothers" mentioned in this page. The Grenville St address was a "city office" that was about 100 square ft with a desk and 3 chairs, boxes for filing cabinets.

The Yard I referred to was at the site of what is now the parking lot for the Port Credit "GO" station, sold to the Government when the "GO" service was instituted. This was in fact the address for Thomson Brothers Construction, Thomson Excavation, and Thomson Lumber.

I am the individual who supplied ALL of the material that now resides in the "Memories and Dreams" room at the ACC and also supplied all of the material used in the closing season of the Gardens for the various displays they had there throughout the days ending in February 1999.

Port Credit was in 1931 part of Toronto Township, which seems to provide most of the confusion here.

Much the same as the misspelling of our last name (addition of a "P" in many cases, which is incorrect) The Thomson family were one of the founding families of what is now Mississauga, constructing many of the original buildings in what was then the Village of Port Credit.

My effort to clarify just one detail has been frustrating up to this point, and both versions have some validity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.229.146.143 (talk • contribs)

Removed text
I removed the following text: "It is now confirmed that innocent kids were sexually abused in the Gardens during the 70s and 80s. Several bad guys were convicted for their sex abuse." since there is no reference, and the phrase "several bad guys" is hardly encyclopedic. --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 01:50, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Several kids were sexually abused in the Maple Leaf Gardens. If you have a problem with the wording then change it, but don't just take it out. It seems like you want to whitewash the history of the Gardens. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.58.51.131 (talk • contribs)


 * I've rewritten the paragraph to include details and citations. --Walor 05:00, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I have no interest in "whitewashing" the history of the Gardens. I removed it not because I believe it to be untrue, but because there were no references. Thanks Walor for doing it the right way. --MrBoo (talk, contribs) 12:47, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

The Peter Gilgan Athletic Centre at the Gardens
Ryerson announced the new name of their athletic facility today. It struck me that a person or two might be tempted to move this article to that new name, on the basis that it is the new "official" name. Therefore, I thought I would leave this caution note because:

1) It is unclear from the press reports that I have seen whether or not the entire building has been renamed, or simply the component occupied by the Ryerson athletic complex. I suspect the latter, in which case this article should not be renamed.

2) Even if the entire building has been renamed, WP:COMMONNAME and WP:OFFICIALNAMES would suggest that we still use "Maple Leaf Gardens" for the title until it becomes apparent that most people are calling the building by its new name. At a minimum, I think any page move would best be done after a discussion and a clear consensus.

Hope that's helpful. Obviously, people are free to disagree with the points above. I was just hoping to forestall a series of moves and move reverts over the next few days. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 20:03, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Information not in the right sections
Some sections of this article are ordered explicitly by date. But the content of those sections does not match the dates in the headings. I was not able to find what I was looking for efficiently and almost missed it, because it was apparently in the wrong section by date. Not familiar with the subject, I don't know if a different structure is the right answer, or whether just wholesale moving of text into the apparently correct headings is the right answer. I just wanted to draw attention to this problem so someone qualified might fix it. 24.57.210.141 (talk) 02:38, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

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