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[edit] 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)

[edit] 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.