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Comments on: The Skydome’s 100th Anniversary http://michaelmurray.ca/the-skydomes-100th-anniversary Michael Murray Writes Things Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:41:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.9 By: Marigold Lune http://michaelmurray.ca/the-skydomes-100th-anniversary#comment-37556 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:41:45 +0000 http://michaelmurray.ca/?p=4440#comment-37556 My apologies for the string of ?? question marks. I had written Hail to our Fallen Brethren in simplified Chinese. However, the site does not recognize the language.

]]> By: Marigold Lune http://michaelmurray.ca/the-skydomes-100th-anniversary#comment-37555 Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:39:42 +0000 http://michaelmurray.ca/?p=4440#comment-37555 Granted, the death of 30,000 Asian labourers in building the Great Dome is a well-documented fact. However, what the author fails to acknowledge is that their deaths were primarily due to malaria. In order to build the Dome, the great Lower Don Swamplands had to be drained and it was this work to clear the land upon which the mighty Dome now stands that killed so many unfortunate men. But their sacrifice ultimately led to the eradication of the dread disease, making malaria just a bad memory in the city’s history, and greatly reduced the crocodile population to its manageable levels. ??????????!!!! (see Cigarova, Ana. An epidemiological history of Upper Canada 1900-1920, Journal of Upper Canada Epidemiology, v. CXII, summer issue, pp 324-378.)

]]> By: Dave http://michaelmurray.ca/the-skydomes-100th-anniversary#comment-32453 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:57:42 +0000 http://michaelmurray.ca/?p=4440#comment-32453 In reply to Sean.

I’m thinking of starting a charity to help people who can’t recognize satire.

]]> By: Sean http://michaelmurray.ca/the-skydomes-100th-anniversary#comment-31997 Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:46:25 +0000 http://michaelmurray.ca/?p=4440#comment-31997 Fake as fuck and your all idiots for believing it

]]> By: Bredwyn http://michaelmurray.ca/the-skydomes-100th-anniversary#comment-31956 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 16:51:40 +0000 http://michaelmurray.ca/?p=4440#comment-31956 What has been sadly forgotten is the 1924 incident when the infant Royal Canadian Air Force staged an impressive display of bombing in the Skydome. Flying in Sopwith and Vickers fabric-covered biplanes, the RCAF bombed an imitation First Nations village. The undercarriage of one of the planes caught on a totem pole and crashed into a tipi (the First Nations village was not entirely consistent in every detail.) The pilot, William Barker, was unhurt, but three “Indians” — in fact, circus performers playing First Nations warriors — were killed. One was the cousin of Jimmy Chipperfield, another WWI ace. Chipperfield challenged Barker to a duel, but Barker escaped Toronto disguised as a bear. Flying was from then on banned at the Skydome, but the Rob Ford campaign has promised that if Rob wins in October, he will parachute in to the victory party at Skydome.

]]> By: Sharktooth http://michaelmurray.ca/the-skydomes-100th-anniversary#comment-30994 Wed, 04 Jun 2014 23:22:58 +0000 http://michaelmurray.ca/?p=4440#comment-30994 Most people don’t know this, but the very first Stanley Cup was played in the Skydome, and won by the Toronto Maple Leafs Lacrosse Club. I think that was 1915 or 1916.

The following year, Harold Ballard Sr. ended up taking control of the Skydome during a drunken poker match with Toronto’s populist new mayor, Douglas Bordorf. Ballard, a notorious penny pincher, refused to close the dome, even in the dead of winter. The poor lacrosse players literally froze their balls off, and thus the game of hockey was born.

The Toronto Maple Leafs Lacrosse Club was renamed the Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey Club, and moved to some fancy new digs on Carleton Street with a permanent roof.

There were many happy years for the “Leafs” at their new home on Carleton, and many more Stanley Cups were won there. Sadly, the good times came to a sorry end when Ballard’s son, Pal Hal, took over the Leafs in the late 60’s. Hal brought the Skydome curse to Carlton street, and a permanent black cloud would hover there for decades.

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