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Baseball has been played in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and across Northwestern Ontario since at least the 1920s, in the cities of Fort William and Port Arthur and later in the amalgamated city. Local players, coaches and umpires appear in senior, junior and midget leagues, in Pony League and Little League, and in the related sports of softball and fastball.[1][2] The city's best-known baseball achievements are a run of Canadian Little League championships won between 1964 and 1980, ten of which are recognised by the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. Many of the region's hockey players were also summer ballplayers, and several hockey inductees' profiles are the main record of the local game.

Early years

Cecil Saunders, a former professional player, first moved to Port Arthur in 1921 and played for a local club for two seasons.[1] When he returned in the early 1930s he found that softball had replaced baseball as the main game at Mariday Park. After two years as a coach and umpire with the South End team, he rebuilt the sport locally, buying equipment and uniforms on credit to field a team that could play the two clubs in Fort William.[1] Cliff Barton played baseball in the 1920s before concentrating on hockey,[2] and Helen Reith played in local and intercity leagues in the 1920s and 1930s.[3] Players recorded from the 1930s include Joe Greaves, who batted .447 in 1937 and helped organise the West End Junior Softball and Port Arthur Junior Baseball teams;[4] Gordon Houston, regarded as the Lakehead's top shortstop of that decade;[5] and Stan Cooke, a member of the 1931 junior district champions.[6] Ollie Sutton moved to Fort William in 1937 and hit .500 in his first season there. He once stole home five times in a single season and retired after 1953.[7] Weikko Koivisto threw two no-hitters and finished second in the batting race in 1939 and 1943.[8]

Senior, junior and midget baseball

After the war, senior baseball was organised around clubs such as the Port Arthur Red Sox, Port Arthur Giants, Big Eds, Lakehead Motors and the East Ends of Fort William, with an organised Fort William Senior Baseball League.[9][10][11] Stan Cooke played on senior championship teams in 1945 and 1946,[6] and Gordon Wilson played on eight city championship teams between 1949 and 1965.[9] Jim Mauro came up through the midget and junior ranks in Port Arthur, led the senior league in batting and played for the Giants and the Red Sox.[12] Henry Åkervall won a senior league title with the Giants in 1955.[13] Peter Dika was a playing coach of the East Ends who led the league in batting in 1952 and managed two city championship teams.[11] Baseball in Red Rock is recorded too: Larry Dunville played for Fort William clubs and the Red Rock Paper Kings and became their playing coach, and was part of two teams that won both the Lakehead League and the Thunder Bay District championships.[14] Other Port Arthur club names in the profiles include the Junior Red Sox, the Port Arthur Elks and the Port Arthur Grads (a club managed by Daniel Smith Cox).[15]

Professional baseball

A few people with Thunder Bay ties played professionally. Cecil Saunders spent a short time with the Elmira Colts, a farm team of the Boston Red Sox.[1] George Tait was one of the first Canadians to try out for the Chicago White Sox.[16] John Heath, born in Fort William in 1915, began his major league career with the Cleveland Indians in 1936 and played 14 seasons. In his third season he finished second for the American League batting title, and in 1941 he led the league in triples. He also played for the Washington Senators, the St. Louis Browns and the Boston Braves; a broken leg kept him out of the 1948 World Series with the Braves. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1987.[17] Peter Young was the play-by-play announcer for the Winnipeg Goldeyes in 1994.[18]

Little League and Pony League

Little League reached the Lakehead in the early 1950s. When it was established in the region in 1952, Phat Wilson became the first president of the Port Arthur National League, and later the first Little League District Commissioner after the league expanded into Fort William.[19] Umpires and coaches came from the same pool: Art Chepil umpired for the Westfort International Little League from 1950 to 1954,[20] Dick Hill umpired Little League from 1963 to 1979 after attending umpire school in Williamsport, Pennsylvania,[10] Daniel Smith Cox became the district's Chief Umpire Consultant in 1964,[15] and Alex Irving managed Little League, juvenile and senior teams from the 1940s.[21] Gary Veneruzzo was a two-time Pony League all-star and took part in the 1956–57 Canadian Pony League Championships.[22] Lorne Allard later organised for Port Arthur Pony League Baseball and helped build a diamond at George Burke Park.[23]

Canadian champions

Between 1964 and 1980 local teams won ten Canadian Little League titles recognised by the Hall of Fame. The 1964 Fort William Nationals were an all-star team drawn from an eight-team league sponsored by the Royal Canadian Legion, and were the first team to represent Canada at the Senior Little League World Series. More than 1,000 people met them at the airport on their return, and a motorcade took them to the Fort William Gardens.[24] Fort William teams then won again in 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969. In 1974 the champions were again from Fort William and the national tournament was played at Port Arthur Stadium; in 1975 the national tournament was held in Thunder Bay and a Fort William club won the Senior title, while the Port Arthur Continentals, aged 11 and 12, became the first Northwestern Ontario team to win the Canadian Major title.[25] The 1970 Thunder Bay Red Sox, an all-star team of 16- to 18-year-olds, won the Big League division after the city's amalgamation.

Year Team Division Canadian championship World Series
1964 Fort William Nationals Senior Little League[24] Senior Little League Canadian champions; beat Valleyfield, Quebec, 14–2 at Stoney Creek on 17 August 1964 Senior Little League World Series, Louisville, Kentucky (first Canadian team at the event); lost 7–4 to Brenham, Texas
1966 Fort William Americans Senior Little League[26] Senior Little League Canadian champions; undefeated at the national tournament in Stoney Creek World Series, Des Moines, Iowa
1967 Fort William Americans Senior Little League[27] Senior Little League Canadian champions; beat Edmonton in the national final Senior Little League World Series, West Des Moines, Iowa; won a game against Matamoros, Mexico, the first win by a Canadian team at the event
1968 Fort William Nationals Senior Little League[28] Senior Little League Canadian champions; beat North Burnaby in the national final, played at Port Arthur Stadium Senior Little League World Series; eliminated after losses to Sacramento and a team from Ohio
1969 Fort William Moose-Internationals[29] Senior Little League Canadian champions; beat a team from Edmonton 6–4 in 12 innings Senior Little League World Series, Gary, Indiana
1970 Thunder Bay Red Sox[30] Little League Big League Division (ages 16–18) Canadian champions; beat the Windsor All-Stars two games to one World Series, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1974 Fort William National-Internationals Senior Little League[31] Senior Little League Canadian champions; beat Windsor 4–0 in the final at Port Arthur Stadium Senior League World Series, Gary, Indiana; lost to Taiwan and West Germany
1975 Fort William National-Internationals Senior Little League[32] Senior Little League Canadian champions; national tournament hosted in Thunder Bay; beat Calgary 6–1 in the deciding game Little League Senior World Series, Gary, Indiana
1975 Port Arthur Continental Major Little League[25] Major Little League (ages 11–12) Canadian champions in Calgary; beat the host team 6–2; first Northwestern Ontario team to win the Canadian Major title none available to that year's champions
1980 Fort William National-Internationals Senior Little League[33] Senior Little League Canadian champions in Windsor; beat Windsor 6–2 in the sudden-death final Little League World Series, Gary, Indiana

Officials and administrators

Jim Mauro served for nearly twenty years as the regional representative for Baseball Ontario, running clinics for coaches and umpires and arranging entry to provincial championships; he also sat on the baseball committee for the 1981 Canada Summer Games in Thunder Bay, responsible for officials.[12] Bill McKenzie was Umpire-in-Chief for Little League and umpired senior baseball and softball,[34] and Albert Pudas umpired senior league games.[35] Dick Hill was Officials Coordinator for softball at the 1981 Games.[10] Peter Gallagher spent about fifteen years in executive and coaching roles with the Port Arthur Continental Little League and managed Baseball Central during the 2010 World Junior Baseball Championship.[36]

Venues

Port Arthur Stadium, opened in 1951, is used only for baseball, and is home to the Thunder Bay Border Cats of the Northwoods League.[37] It hosted Canadian Senior Little League championship games in 1968 and 1974.[28][31] Mariday Park in Port Arthur was a softball ground when Saunders set about reviving baseball there in the 1930s.[1] Baseball Central is a baseball facility in the city; an archaeological study of its ball diamonds followed the discovery of a stone arrowhead in 2025.[38] George Burke Park had a diamond built with help from Lorne Allard.[23]

Hall of Fame inductees and teams

The following inductees and teams of the Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame have baseball in their profiles. Refer to each page for the full biography.

Teams

Inductees

  • John Adams – played Little League, fastball and senior baseball in Port Arthur before specialising as a goaltender.[39]
  • Henry Akervall – won a senior league championship with the Port Arthur Giants in 1955.[13]
  • Lorne Allard – catcher, pitcher and outfielder with the Junior Red Sox and Port Arthur Giants, later an organizer for Port Arthur Pony League Baseball.[23]
  • Pete Backor – hockey professional who was also a notable baseball player in Northwestern Ontario.[40]
  • Cliff Barton – played baseball in the 1920s before turning to hockey.[2]
  • Barton Bradley – hitter over .300 in the 1950s on championship Port Arthur Red Sox and Lakehead Motors teams in baseball and fastball.[41]
  • Fred Bragnalo – played baseball as a youth in Fort William.[42]
  • Rick Bragnalo – member of the Fort William Americans teams that won the 1966 and 1967 Canadian Senior Little League titles.[43]
  • Mike Busniuk – pitcher for the Fort William Americans in the 1966 and 1967 Canadian Senior Little League championship seasons.[44]
  • Ron Busniuk – member of the 1964 Fort William Nationals.[45]
  • Ab Cava – played for several local teams, notably the Port Arthur Red Sox, who won a Lakehead senior championship.[46]
  • Art Chepil – coach of the Westfort Athletic Association team (1949–50) and Westfort International Little League umpire (1950–54).[20]
  • Gerry Cizmar – played baseball as a youth and later coached youth baseball.[47]
  • Tom Cook – coached hockey and baseball teams around the Lakehead after retiring from pro hockey in 1938.[48]
  • Daniel Smith Cox – player and player-manager with several Port Arthur clubs and Little League Chief Umpire Consultant from 1964.[15]
  • Peter Dika – playing coach of the East Ends, league batting leader in 1952 and manager of two city championship teams.[11]
  • Noel Dunford – assistant coach of youth baseball in the Winnipeg area after his football career.[49]
  • Larry Dunville – played for Fort William teams and the Red Rock Paper Kings, becoming their playing coach.[14]
  • Don Gale – played baseball for local organizations as a youth in Port Arthur.[50]
  • Peter Gallagher – held executive and coaching posts with the Port Arthur Continental Little League for about fifteen years and managed Baseball Central at the 2010 World Junior Baseball Championship.[36]
  • Joe Greaves – hit .447 in 1937 and organised the West End Junior Softball and Port Arthur Junior Baseball teams.[4]
  • John Heath – Fort William-born major league outfielder who played 14 seasons, mostly with the Cleveland Indians.[17]
  • Dick Hill – umpire for rural games, the Fort William Senior Baseball League and Little League (1963–1979).[10]
  • Gordon Houston – regarded as the top shortstop in the Lakehead area in the 1930s.[5]
  • Alex Irving – coach who managed Little League, juvenile and senior baseball teams from the 1940s.[21]
  • Weikko Koivisto – pitcher, catcher and shortstop with two no-hitters and two batting-title runner-up finishes (1939, 1943).[8]
  • Mike Kostick – coached East End baseball and softball teams to several championships.[51]
  • Ed Kryzanowski – played baseball growing up in Fort Frances.[52]
  • Frank Landy – played baseball as a youth in Fort William before focusing on football.[53]
  • Jim Mauro – second baseman and batting champion with the Port Arthur Giants and Red Sox, and Baseball Ontario regional representative for nearly twenty years.[12]
  • Bill McDonald – played baseball with the Port Arthur Red Sox in the 1960s.[54]
  • Bill McKenzie – Umpire-in-Chief for Little League and umpire for senior baseball and softball.[34]
  • Rudy Migay – played and coached senior baseball for Port Arthur and Fort William teams in the hockey off-season.[55]
  • Ab Onuliak – pitcher in midget, junior and senior baseball who attended the Jack Rossiter Baseball School in Florida in 1950.[56]
  • Albert Pudas – umpire for senior league games.[35]
  • Helen Reith – played in local and intercity baseball leagues in the 1920s and 1930s.[3]
  • Bill Salonen – pitcher for the Port Arthur Red Sox, later a player in Dryden and a Little League coach.[57]
  • Charlie Sands – multi-sport athlete who also had success in baseball.[58]
  • Cecil Saunders – former professional player who rebuilt baseball in Port Arthur in the early 1930s.[1]
  • Nels Scavarelli – competed in baseball and softball in Fort William.[59]
  • Ab Slivinski – played baseball with the Port Arthur Red Sox.[60]
  • Stan Cooke Sr. – 1931 junior district champion and member of the senior championship teams of 1945 and 1946.[6]
  • Ollie Sutton – moved to Fort William in 1937, hit .500 in his first season there and played on at least four championship teams.[7]
  • George Tait – one of the earliest Canadians to try out for the Chicago White Sox.[16]
  • Gary Veneruzzo – Pony League all-star twice, played in the 1956–57 Canadian Pony League Championships, and won a 1969 national award as the outstanding Little League graduate in sport.[22]
  • Gordon Wilson – shortstop on eight city championship teams between 1949 and 1965 with the Port Arthur Giants, Port Arthur Red Sox and Big Eds.[9]
  • Phat Wilson – first president of the Port Arthur National League (1952) and first Little League District Commissioner.[19]
  • Joe Wirkkunen – played baseball as an adult after recovering from polio.[61]
  • Peter Young – play-by-play announcer for the Winnipeg Goldeyes in 1994 and later held management roles with baseball and other teams.[18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Cecil 'Toby' Saunders", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/0e76e91d-b772-46b2-a40b-eaf113fe34e0 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Cliff Barton", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/7ee7edd9-9f55-4987-af48-6ac395ebbe58 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Helen Reith (Gerry)", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/a549fb31-e84e-45f9-b1f1-310d3c79d89b (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Joe Greaves", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/ea24807b-d6c9-476e-8868-11d9c7526d95 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Gordon 'Gordie' Houston", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/c7179496-4cc3-47db-b191-0acca95685e2 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Stan Cooke Sr.", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/527b04c2-5a30-4383-abc3-1f8d1a0560a1 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Ollie Sutton", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/8803b1b2-8941-49bd-b501-d86423259ff9 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Weikko Koivisto", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/98dd8e0c-a4e1-4c1e-853e-bed34c76a133 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Gordon 'Junior' Wilson", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/9e80b76b-a5a3-4cef-8518-ad4465a6ffd3 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 "Dick Hill", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/0db1be07-c0f6-42e1-846a-5d8a99d56afd (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 "Peter 'Peppy' Dika", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/19c464fe-a900-4d78-a764-6d863a6a86a6 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 "Jim 'Jimmy' Mauro", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/1c1bc4c5-ae39-4f5c-a63d-c0ca787f7391 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Henry 'Hank' Akervall", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/0dcfc528-9ccb-4528-bd79-975d3b71c802 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Larry Dunville", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/c12daea6-56c0-4585-bd18-90a64f97f311 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 "Daniel Smith Cox", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/d0b654ac-5221-4369-bc24-28b0ac86dac8 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "George 'Lefty' Tait", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/88f64be4-548f-451c-a490-b1761cda4419 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 "John 'Jeff' Heath", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/b177db22-ba55-430c-933e-64c935ab80ca (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Peter Young", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/4e99b2f4-74c9-49ff-a43a-bbfa6ecca3f0 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 "Gordon 'Phat' Wilson", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/d30f9b47-7978-43c7-898c-d37509cf513e (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 "Art Chepil", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/506870ee-7586-407e-806d-fee0118034cb (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 "Alex 'Moe' Irving", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/85a72d4d-23a4-475a-8412-e128e19c5365 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 "Gary Veneruzzo", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/08e7d67a-0573-4fc6-8488-9382c1d22fcd (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 "Lorne Allard", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/ce4caaaf-a833-46c9-bbb0-0f01e5d4162c (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 "Fort William Nationals Senior Little League", team profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/team-profile/7fca8baf-de75-48d2-8878-e5d41ca7c837 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  25. ↑ 25.0 25.1 "Port Arthur Continental Major Little League", team profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/team-profile/bb9e3ecb-94bf-4967-bdff-3cbbfb713995 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  26. ↑ "Fort William Americans Senior Little League", team profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/team-profile/420e7a81-433b-4d1d-b5b0-1c44980ecfd8 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  27. ↑ "Fort William Americans Senior Little League", team profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/team-profile/c3753fdf-32de-498d-be5d-3b215dd5acd4 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 "Fort William Nationals Senior Little League", team profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/team-profile/aa7bbff0-6e0e-4402-9f27-73347e75a0bb (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  29. ↑ "Fort William Moose-Internationals Senior Little League", team profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/team-profile/e3495e62-d1f2-4758-aa38-6620b498a9dd (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  30. ↑ "Thunder Bay Red Sox Little Big League", team profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/team-profile/460b3559-0725-4f5c-b3a0-e62c0e129685 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  31. ↑ 31.0 31.1 "Fort William National-Internationals Senior Little League", team profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/team-profile/48190458-7cfe-485f-9132-460afdbc5f1d (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  32. ↑ "Fort William National-Internationals Senior Little League", team profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/team-profile/606358f7-6d00-4450-9671-8d3b244d0c41 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  33. ↑ "Fort William National-Internationals Senior Little League", team profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/team-profile/cb962bdb-3f5c-4d23-9444-50428eeab89d (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  34. ↑ 34.0 34.1 "Bill McKenzie", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/32266d77-3e41-4058-8ef3-a64b6a4831fe (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 "Albert 'Puddy' Pudas", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/12c958aa-97a9-46da-8e5c-d0e8ec875c1a (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  36. ↑ 36.0 36.1 "Peter Gallagher", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/f9a7df57-4ba9-49d6-bc29-ab5fb9c92ba3 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  37. ↑ "Port Arthur Stadium", Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_Stadium
  38. ↑ "Archaeological discovery validates ancestral activity across Thunder Bay area", Anishinabek News, 24 September 2025 (archived copy; original article).
  39. ↑ "John Adams", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/b587fce6-1919-4419-b3f8-650c054c2ac8 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  40. ↑ "Peter 'Pete' Backor", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/a318f858-91d6-4c30-ab00-1c3e035d7ff8 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  41. ↑ "Barton 'Bart' Bradley", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/93ffe669-8fc1-437f-b3fd-4a9196db5e55 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  42. ↑ "Fred Bragnalo", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/d8bfac5b-ed8e-437b-a597-ed92bf470c45 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  43. ↑ "Rick Bragnalo", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/eece81e2-096f-4bd5-b196-2a48a41f61b9 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  44. ↑ "Mike Busniuk", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/dc825372-c28b-474b-836a-0729864c9bf9 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  45. ↑ "Ron Busniuk", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/fb0370a2-8311-469b-b540-52f8f80a5ce2 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  46. ↑ "Albert 'Ab' Cava", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/40377e72-7530-4374-ba61-db84a7c8a92a (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  47. ↑ "Gerry Cizmar", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/c48d2f46-617c-4741-96a0-bb178831d542 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  48. ↑ "Tom Cook", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/15a74fd7-3e37-410e-a90d-61aa7639f28b (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  49. ↑ "Noel Dunford", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/6a5fe2ad-e424-4141-acea-2949fb5d75c9 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  50. ↑ "Don Gale", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/353c87e0-058e-4b3c-8dfc-2f76f386e20d (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  51. ↑ "Mike 'Fosh' Kostick", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/47019c51-258e-4ee5-843f-fa9f6351efea (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  52. ↑ "Ed 'Sonny' Kryzanowski", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/a876915f-20e1-472d-90f0-cfe4bd2a94a8 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  53. ↑ "Frank Landy", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/b7b55d10-f234-46bc-9e9a-08b93ccbd635 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  54. ↑ "Bill McDonald", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/b9f3d2d5-524a-4f35-b446-c377a9a128d5 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  55. ↑ "Rudy Migay", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/60352f46-a4c3-4269-afea-b3378b493429 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  56. ↑ "Ab Onuliak", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/b54bb991-97dd-45e0-8e6f-74aec5c8ecc8 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  57. ↑ "Bill Salonen", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/aa673e0d-b05a-48d6-bb90-8d5bb06b804f (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  58. ↑ "Charlie Sands", athlete profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/athlete-profile/0e6df029-0385-49e7-a2da-981403a60d89 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  59. ↑ "Nels Scavarelli", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/29d2170d-7de2-4ee2-9f57-7447c0a66027 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  60. ↑ "Ab Slivinski", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/e03d94b9-e420-47b2-91e8-05f2b123e169 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
  61. ↑ "Joe Wirkkunen", builder profile, Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, https://www.nwosportshalloffame.com/builder-profile/a54b9a0f-c216-4f9d-9601-34272b7fa468 (accessed 31 October 2026). Archived copy on datum.locker.
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