Talk:Timmins, Ontario

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Contents 1 Notable People from Timmins. 2 Rumours 3 Notable People from Timmins 4 External links on Timmins, Ontario page

[edit] Notable People from Timmins.

A number of edits in this section seem suspect...

Shania Twain is the most internationally famous native of Timmins. Other notable figures from the city include:

   * Charlie Angus, musician and songwriter for the band Grievous Angels, now serving as the New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Timmins—James Bay
   * Bill Barilko, National Hockey League hockey player and Tragically Hip song subject ("Fifty Mission Cap", from 1992's Fully Completely)
   * Paul Bellini, comedy writer and television actor
   * Gilles Bisson, Ontario New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament for Timmins—James Bay
   * Dave Carroll and Don Carroll, country/pop/folk band Sons of Maxwell
   * Stompin' Tom Connors, musician and songwriter was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, but lived and worked in the mines in Timmins long enough to get his big break singing at the Maple Leaf Hotel there in the 1960s.
   * Les Costello, former NHL hockey player with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the golden era. Later became a Roman Catholic priest in Timmins while continuing to play hockey for the "Flying Fathers".
   * Patrice Desbiens (suspect), French poet and percussionist
   * Shean Donovan, NHL hockey player
   * Derek Edwards, Award Winning Comedian
   * Kylah Eide (suspect), actor, writer, comedian
   * Frank Gehry (suspect), architect, spent adolescence in Timmins
   * Robin David Michel Hall (suspect), soccer player
   * Matt Humphreys,singer/songwriter
   * J. Conrad Lavigne, broadcasting pioneer
   * Jamie Lim, current president & CEO of the Ontario Forestry Industries Association; former Timmins mayor
   * Frank Mahovlich, former NHL hockey player and now Canadian Senator
   * Derek McGrath (suspect) actor best known as the cherubic murderer "Andy-Andy" Schroeder on Cheers, and Dr. Benjamin Marion Jeffcoate on My Secret Identity
   * Ian Orenstein (will be removed) lived in the Timmins area from 1967 to 1971. At one time, he was a paper boy for the Timmins Daily Press.
   * Alan Pope, former Progressive Conservative MPP
   * Jim Prentice, Conservative Party of Canada Member of Parliament from Calgary, Alberta
   * Jody Racicot (suspect), actor
   * Myron Scholes (suspect), award-winning economist
   * Dr. George Sheppard (suspect), Historian and educator, Laurentian University
   * Steve Sullivan, NHL player
   * Philippe Tatartcheff (suspect), poet and songwriter for Kate and Anna McGarrigle
   * Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, newspaper magnate, started his empire in the 1930's with the Timmins Daily Press
   * Lola Lemire Tostevin (suspect), novelist and poet

I'm going to start researching a few of them and will probably start deleting some of them unless sources can be attributed to them. Renrenren 22:07, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rumours

I don't know that rumours belong in a wikipedia article. As such, I`ve removed the rumours from the article page. Renrenren 20:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

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Ken Trevenna does not apear to be a relevant person from Timmins.

Yves Lavigne, author of numerous books on The Hells Angels, stated that the population of Timmins spends $2000000 a month on illegal drugs.

[edit] Notable People from Timmins

Following a search for sources, I have removed a number of people who were indicated as being notable people from Timmins. --Renrenren 19:29, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External links on Timmins, Ontario page

I've started reorganizing the links on this page. In my opinion, there are WAY too many links in the first place. I know most links are information based, and have not been put up in an effort to drum up business. However, if you look at other pages such as Toronto, Ontario, North Bay, Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, all of these municipalities are larger than Timmins and have way fewer external links. I just think we need to find a way to make things more concise. Perhaps adding links in the article where they should appear would be one way to solve this issue. --Renrenren 19:03, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

I've been warned for adding external links to articles about towns/cities. The only links that seem to be acceptable to everyone are the official websites of the town, .gov links, or links to historical societies. No links to businesses or clubs or even non-profit organizations belong in the external links section of an article on a city/town - people can search Google if they need that kind of information about a municipality. --Sinned 01:50, 4 January 2007 (UTC)