1. Trent Frayne, The Mad Men of Hockey (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1974), 150.
2. Globe and Mail, October 20, 1980.
3. Globe and Mail, July 16, 1944.
4. Scott Young, film proposal, 1957, Conn Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
1. Dan Diamond, Total Stanley Cup (Kingston, New York: Total Sports Publishing, 2000), 5.
2. Andrew Podnieks, Lord Stanley’s Cup (Toronto: Fenn Publishing, 2004), 4.
3. SS Sarnia, manifest, July 1889, www.ancestry.ca.
4. Hugh Smythe, interview by author, February 10, 2010.
5. Frayne, Mad Men, 158.
6. Conn Smythe with Scott Young, If You Can’t Beat ’em in the Alley (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1981), 10.
7. Conn Smythe, interview by Dick Beddoes, undated, Scott Young fonds, #90-003, Trent University Archives.
8. Mike Filey and Victor Russell, From Horse Power to Horsepower, 1890–1930 (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1993), 40.
9. Smythe, If You Can’t, 15.
10. Ibid., 9.
11. June Callwood, The Naughty Nineties 1890–1900 (Toronto: Natural Science of Canada Ltd., 1977), 44.
12. Conn Smythe speech to St. Michael’s College School banquet, April 30, 1946, Conn Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
13. Smythe, If You Can’t, 11.
14. Toronto Real Estate Board, “Scarborough Village,” (www.torontorealestateboard.com/about_TO/
Neighbourhood/regions/scarborough/141.html).
15. Smythe, If You Can’t, 7.
16. Ibid., 11–13.
17. Globe and Mail, December 9, 1929; obituary, Globe and Mail, December 7, 1929; William Findlay Maclean, Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, http://www.biographi.ca.
18. Jack Batten, The Inside Story of Conn Smythe’s Hockey Dynasty (Toronto: Simon & Schuster Canada, 1970), 20.
19. Smythe, If You Can’t, 13.
20. Ibid., 21–23.
21. Frank Arnoldi, An Epoch in Canadian History (Toronto: Upper Canada College Old Boys Association, 1904), 23.
22. Smythe, If You Can’t, 21.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., 13–14.
25. Ibid., 20.
26. Ibid.
27. Michael Barnes, “The Great Clay Belt Hoax,” The Republic of Mining (blog) June 11, 2008, www.republicofmining.com.
28. Notebook entry, March 1912, Conn Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
1. Smythe, If You Can’t, 24.
2. Ibid. 77.
3. Conn Smythe, Beddoes interview, Scott Young fonds, Trent University Archives.
4. Diary entry, winter 1912–13, Conn Smythe’s diary, Conn Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
5. Frank J. Selke with Gordon Green, Behind the Cheering (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1962), 37; Canadian Oldtimers Hockey Association Journal, September–October 1985.
6. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 39.
7. Lou Marsh, Toronto Star, March 12, 1915.
8. Canadian War Museum, “Canada and the First World War,” www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/guerre/canada-at-war-e.aspx.
9. Ibid.
10. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 48.
11. J.M.S. Careless, Toronto to 1918 (Toronto: J. Lorimer, 1984), appendix.
12. Robert Craig Brown, “Sir Robert Borden,” Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online, www.biographi.ca.
13. Smythe, If You Can’t, 31.
14. Ibid., 30–40.
15. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 82.
16. Albert Smythe letter, Conn Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
17. Brown, “Sir Robert Borden.”
18. Smythe, If You Can’t, 47.
19. Canadian War Museum, “Tanks and Armoured Vehicules,” www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/guerre/tanks-vehicles-e.aspx.
20. Smythe, If You Can’t, 50.
21. Ibid., 51.
22. Veterans Affairs Canada, “The Battle of Vimy Ridge,” www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=history/firstwar/vimy/vimy3.
23. Smythe, If You Can’t, 53.
24. Smythe personal military records, World War One, Library and Archives Canada, CEF Regimental documents, War Service Records, DVA, 9024.
25. Smythe, If You Can’t, 59.
26. The Vintage Aviator, “RE.8 History,” http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/projects/re8-reproduction/history
27. Smythe, If You Can’t, 61.
28. Toronto World, November 14, 1917.
29. Toronto World, February 24, 1919.
30. Smythe, If You Can’t, 65.
31. Toronto World, February 24, 1919.
32. Smythe, If You Can’t, 67.
1. Toronto Star, September 29, 1973.
2. Letter to editor, “Not sent on advice of Mr. J. Bassett,” September 30, 1954, Conn Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
3. Smythe, If You Can’t, 42.
4. Ibid., 42.
5. Ibid., 8.
6. Blavatsky Net – Theosophy, www.blavatsky.net.
7. Smythe, If You Can’t, 11.
8. Young fonds.
9. Conn Smythe, interview by Ward Cornell, December 1960, Conn Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
10. Scott Young, Hello Canada! The Life and Times of Foster Hewitt (Toronto: Seal Books, 1985), 133–134.
11. Pierre Berton, The Great Depression, 1929–39 (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990), 58.
12. Smythe personal military records, Library Archives Canada.
13. Smythe, If You Can’t, 73-74.
14. Hugh Smythe, interview by author, March 30, 2010.
15. Ibid.
16. Smythe, If You Can’t, 68.
17. Scott Young transcript, Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario
18. Globe and Mail, March 26, 1925.
19. Globe and Mail, March 23, 1925.
20. Toronto Star, March 24, 1926.
21. Toronto Star, March 27, 1926; Globe and Mail, March 30, 1926.
22. D’Arcy Jenish, The Montreal Canadians: 100 Years of Glory (Toronto: Doubleday, 2008), 67–68.
23. Toronto Star, March 30, 1926.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid., April 1, 1926.
26. Ibid., April 3, 1926.
1. Gerald L. Pfeiffer, The Chicago Blackhawks: A Sixty-Year History (Chicago: Windy City Publishing, 1986); Brian McFarlane, Brian McFarlane’s Original Six: The Blackhawks (Toronto: Stoddart, 2001).
2. Frank Boucher with Trent Frayne, When the Rangers Were Young (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1973), 75.
3. Eric Whitehead, The Patricks: Hockey’s Royal Family (Toronto: Doubleday, 1980), 155.
4. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
5. Smythe, If You Can’t, 80.
6. Ibid., 80–81.
7. Boucher, When the Rangers, 90.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., 69.
10. Ibid., 70.
11. Ibid.
12. Ed Fitkin, Footloose and Fancy Free, undated, Conn Smythe file, Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum.
13. Toronto Star, November 11, 1961.
14. Marsh, Toronto Star, October 26, 1926.
1. Young fonds.
2. Boucher, When the Rangers, 73.
3. Whitehead, The Patricks, 163.
4. Smythe, If You Can’t, 84.
5. Toronto Star, May 10, 1957.
6. Boucher, When the Rangers, 2.
7. Ibid., 6.
8. Ibid., 83–84.
9. Ibid., 10.
10. Ibid.
11. Smythe, If You Can’t, 85.
12. Ibid.
13. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario
14. Marsh, Toronto Star, March 12, 1927.
15. W.A. Hewitt, Down the Stretch: Recollections of a Pioneer Sportsman and Journalist (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1958), 46.
16. W.A. Hewitt, Toronto Star, April 2, 1927.
17. Smythe, If You Can’t, 87.
18. Young fonds.
1. Smythe, If You Can’t, 86.
2. Jenish, The Montreal Canadiens, 54.
3. Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, February 15, 1927.
4. Morey Holzman and Joseph Nieforth, Deceptions and Doublecross: How the NHL Conquered Hockey (Toronto: Dundurn, 2002), 298.
5. Conn Smythe speech, Toronto Maple Leaf club banquet, October 1945, Conn Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
6. Smythe, If You Can’t, 128.
7. Trent Frayne, “Ice Man,” Collier’s, January 24, 1948.
8. Holzman, Deceptions, 300.
9. Bruce Kidd, The Struggle for Canadian Sport (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996), 198.
10. Arena Gardens contract, 1927, Conn Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
11. Frayne, Mad Men, 127.
12. Ibid., 71.
13. Holzman, Deceptions, 204.
14. Foster Hewitt, Hockey Night in Canada (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1958), 75–76.
15. Stan Fischler, The Greatest Players and Moments of the Boston Bruins (Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing, 2000), 111–112.
16. Toronto Star, April 14, 1927.
17. Smythe, If You Can’t, 128.
18. Young fonds.
19. Batten, Hockey Dynasty, 44.
20. Fischler, Greatest Players, 265.
21. Young fonds.
22. Smythe, If You Can’t, 93.
23. John Chi-Kit Wong, The Lords of the Rinks: The Emergence of the NHL 1875–1936 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), 95.
24. Foster Hewitt, Down the Ice: Hockey Contacts and Reflections (Toronto: S. J. R. Saunders, 1934), 8.
25. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 77.
26. Toronto Star, November 8, 1927.
27. Toronto Star, October 27, 1927.
28. Conn Smythe, speech to St. Michael’s Majors, April 30, 1946, Conn Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
29. Toronto Star, November 2, 1927.
30. Toronto Star, November 16, 1927.
31. Ibid.
1. Smythe, If You Can’t, 95.
2. Toronto Star, January 21, 1928.
3. Smythe, If You Can’t, 94.
4. Toronto Star, October 30, 1947.
5. W. A. Hewitt, Toronto Star, February 6, 1928, 10.
6. Ibid.
7. Smythe, If You Can’t, 93.
8. Toronto Star, March 8, 1928.
9. Smythe, If You Can’t, 94–95.
10. Boucher, When the Rangers, 118–121.
11. Red Horner, biography, Hockey Hall of Fame and Museum.
12. Jack Batten, The Leafs: An Anecdotal History of the Toronto Maple Leafs (Toronto: Key Porter, 1994), 21.
13. Kidd, Canadian Sport, 210-211.
14. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 53.
15. Ibid., 45.
16. Ibid., 52.
17. Frank J. Selke tribute booklet, 8. Courtesy of Frank Selke Jr.
18. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 55.
19. Scott Young, Globe and Mail Magazine, January 29, 1966.
20. Hewitt, Hockey Night in Canada, 102.
21. Ibid., 102–103.
22. Frayne, Mad Men, 95.
23. Ibid.
24. Toronto Star, March 21, 1929.
25. Gentleman from Toronto magazine, undated, Conn Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
26. Smythe, If You Can’t, 99.
27. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 82.
28. Evening Telegram, September 22, 1930.
29. King Clancy and Brian McFarlane, Clancy: The King’s Story (Toronto: ECW Press, 1997), 50.
30. Anne M. Logan, Rare Jewel for a King: A Tribute to King Clancy (Erin, ON: Boston Mills Press, 1986), 40.
31. Clancy, Clancy, 51.
32. Ibid.
33. Wong, Lords of the Rinks, 123 and appendices E, F, and G.
34. Logan, Rare Jewel, 37.
35. Ibid., 39.
1. Memorandum of Agreement between Arena Gardens, Ltd. and St. Patricks/TML Hockey Club, July 23, 1927, Conn Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
2. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario
3. Globe and Mail, November 15, 1930.
4. Toronto Star, March 10, 1929.
5. Toronto Star, September 11, 1929.
6. Toronto Star, November 13, 1929.
7. Globe and Mail, November 5, 1929.
8. Michael Benedict and D’Arcy Jenish, eds., Canada on Ice: 50 Years of Great Hockey from the Archives of Maclean’s (Toronto: Viking, 1998), 59.
9. Scott Young, The Boys of Saturday Night: Inside Hockey Night in Canada (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1990), 38.
10. Foster Hewitt, Foster Hewitt: His Own Story (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1967), 36; Young, Hello Canada!, 48.
11. Globe and Mail, September 3, 1930.
12. Toronto Star, October 21, 1930.
13. Official hockey program, Arena Gardens, November 1930, Fonds 70, Series 306, Subseries 1, File 23, City of Toronto Archives.
14. John Clare, “Conn Smythe’s Wondrous Pleasure Dome,” Maclean’s, March 1, 1958, 27.
15. Mail and Empire, January 9, 1931.
16. Toronto Star, January 17, 1931.
17. T. Eaton fonds, Correspondence of James Elliott, Archives of Ontario
18. Mark Osbaldeston, Unbuilt Toronto: A History of the City That Might Have Been (Toronto: Dundurn, 2008), 160.
19. T. Eaton fonds, Archives of Ontario.
20. Young, Boys of Saturday Night, 42.
21. T. Eaton fonds, Archives of Ontario.
22. Marsh, Toronto Star, March 2, 1931.
23. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
24. T. Eaton fonds, Archives of Ontario.
25. Smythe, If You Can’t, 104.
26. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 97.
27. Hewitt, Toronto Star, April 18, 1931.
28. T. Eaton fonds, James Elliott memo, May 27, 1931, Archives of Ontario
29. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, Maple Leaf Gardens Memories and Dreams, 1931–1999 (Toronto: Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, 1999), 45.
30. Toronto Maple Leaf program, November 12, 1931, [Fonds 70, Series 306, Subseries 1, File 25], City of Toronto Archives.
31. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 88.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid., 91.
34. Smythe, If You Can’t, 108.
35. Ibid., 106.
36. Toronto Star, June 23, 1931.
37. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 88–89.
38. Smythe, If You Can’t, 106.
1. Toronto Star, November 24, 1961.
2. T. Eaton fonds, Archives of Ontario.
3. Program, Maple Leaf Gardens, November 12, 1931.
4. Contract Record and Engineering Review, 45, n0.45 (November 11, 1931).
5. Smythe, If You Can’t, 108.
6. Hewitt, Hockey Night in Canada, 64.
7. Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, Memories and Dreams, 55.
8. Globe and Mail, September 22, 1931.
9. Globe and Mail, October 15, 1931.
10. Marsh, Toronto Star, October 23, 1931.
11. Toronto Star, March 11, 1931.
12. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 92.
13. Toronto Telegram, November 13, 1931.
14. Toronto Star, November 7, 1931.
15. Hewitt, His Own Story, 39–40.
16. Hewitt, Down the Ice, 131.
17. Young, Boys of Saturday Night, 48.
18. Kidd, Canadian Sport, 223.
19. Young, Boys of Saturday Night, 49.
20. Smythe, If You Can’t, 113–114.
21. Hewitt, His Own Story, 25.
22. Ibid., 34.
23. Smythe, If You Can’t, 113.
24. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
25. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 93.
26. Dick Irvin, Now Back to You Dick: Two Lifetimes in Hockey (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1988), 34.
27. Smythe, If You Can’t, 110; Irvin, Back to You, 37.
28. Smythe, If You Can’t, 111.
29. Toronto Star, April 6, 1931.
30. Ibid.
31. Toronto Star, April 8, 1931.
32. Clancy, Clancy, 62.
33. Globe, April 11, 1932.
1. Hewitt, His Own Story, 70.
2. Clare, “Pleasure Dome.”
3. Hewitt, His Own Story, 71.
4. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
5. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 100.
6. Ibid., 63
7. Ibid., 174.
8. Frayne, Mad Men, 105; Joan Finnegan, Tallying the Tales of the Old-Timers (Burnstown, ON: General Store Publishing, 1998).
9. Smythe, If You Can’t, 109.
10. Smythe speech, June 12, 1947; Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
11. Hockey notes, summarized by Stafford Smythe, 1950, Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
12. Frayne, Mad Men, 106.
13. Smythe, If You Can’t, 94.
14. Young fonds.
15. Hewitt, Hockey Night in Canada, 178.
16. Ibid., 101.
17. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 68; Hewitt, Hockey Night in Canada, 104.
18. Clancy, Clancy, 77–78.
19. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 67.
20. Ibid., 178–179.
21. Clancy, Clancy, 41.
22. Globe, April 3, 1933.
23. Toronto Star, January 30, 1933.
24. Detroit News, April 2, 1945.
25. Life, March 5, 1951.
26. Andy Lytle, Toronto Star, October 17, 1949.
27. Smythe, If You Can’t, 137.
28. Bob Baun with Anne Logan, Lowering the Boom (Toronto: Stoddart, 2000), 86.
29. Wong, Lords of the Rinks, 100.
30. Frayne, Mad Men, 158.
31. Smythe, If You Can’t, 128.
32. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 122–123.
33. Frayne, Mad Men, 155.
34. Smythe, If You Can’t, 129.
35. “A Rough Time on the Road,” Stan Fischler, Sports Illustrated, February 10, 1964.
36. Batten, The Leafs, 22.
37. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 113.
38. Toronto Star, December 13, 1933.
39. Toronto Star, December 14, 1933.
40. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 116.
41. Toronto Star, January 13, 1934.
42. Toronto Star, December 14, 1933.
43. Ibid.
44. Toronto Star, December 15, 1933.
45. Toronto Star, January 9, 1934.
46. Frayne, Mad Men, 137.
47. Ibid., 156.
48. Toronto Star, February 14, 1934.
49. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
1. Young fonds.
2. Smythe, If You Can’t, 90.
3. Young, Hello Canada!, 80.
4. Frank Selke Jr., interview by author, July 26, 2010.
5. David Macfarlane, Saturday Night, December 1981, 39.
6. Toronto Star, March 14, 1949.
7. Smythe, If You Can’t, 132.
8. Toronto Star, June 13, 1933.
9. Toronto Star and Globe and Mail, June 20, 1933.
10. Toronto Star, June 23, 1933.
11. Toronto Star, November 24, 1961.
12. Smythe, If You Can’t, 119.
13. Selke, Behind the Cheers, 98.
14. Smythe, If You Can’t, 119.
15. Frayne, Mad Men, 73.
16. David Cruise and Alison Griffiths, Net Worth: Exploding the Myth of Professional Hockey (Toronto: Viking, 1991), 39–40.
17. Ibid., 32.
18. Ibid.
19. Smythe, If You Can’t, 115–116.
20. Toronto Star, November 8, 1947.
21. Hugh Smythe, interview by author, February 20, 2010.
1. Toronto Star, December 11, 1936; Globe and Mail, December 17, 1936.
2. Toronto Star, November 14, 1936.
3. Lytle, Toronto Star, November 24, 1936.
4. Toronto Star, November 28, 1936.
5. Toronto Star, November 26, 1936.
6. Smythe, If You Can’t, 138.
7. Ibid.
8. Dick Irvin, The Habs: An Oral History of the Montreal Canadiens 1940–80 (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1991), 22–23.
9. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
10. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
11. Smythe, If You Can’t, 139.
12. Speech, June 12, 1947, Archives of Ontario.
13. Smythe memo, July 17, 1940, Archives of Ontario.
14. Smythe, If You Can’t, 143.
15. Jenish, Montreal Canadiens, 85.
16. Irvin, The Habs, 14.
17. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
18. Smythe, If You Can’t, 145.
19. Ibid., 143.
20. Letter October 2, 1940, Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
21. Smythe, If You Can’t, 141–143.
22. Ibid., 149.
23. Ibid., 146–147.
24. Letter, March 6, 1941, Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
25. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
26. Canadian Science and Technology Museum, “Andrew McNaughton 1887–1966,” www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca.
27. Letter June 1940, Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
28. Ibid.
29. Beddoes, Young fonds.
30. Ibid.
31. Atkinson letter, March 9, 1942, Smythe files, Archives of Ontario.
32. Clark letter, March 26, 1941 Smythe files, Archives of Ontario.
33. Globe and Mail, April 13, 1942.
34. Ibid.
35. Globe and Mail, April 14, 1942.
36. Globe and Mail, April 18, 1942.
37. Globe and Mail, April 20, 1942.
38. Ibid.
39. Smythe, If You Can’t, 146.
40. Ibid, 145.
41. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
42. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
43. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
1. Brereton Greenhous, “Dieppe Raid,” The Canadian Encyclopedia, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com.
2. Smythe, If You Can’t, 147.
3. Boston American, November 11, 1944.
4. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
5. Ibid.
6. Douglas Hunter, War Games: The Story of Conn Smythe and Hockey’s Fighting Men (Toronto: Penguin, 1997), 92.
7. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
8. Young fonds.
9. Walker letter, December 1, 1943/43. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
10. Ibid, March 24, 1943.
11. Smythe, If You Can’t, 156.
12. Ralph Allen, Globe and Mail, July 25, 1944.
13. Allen, Globe and Mail, July 31, 1944.
1. Smythe, If You Can’t, 165.
2. Toronto Star, July 31, 1944.
3. Smythe, If You Can’t, 163.
4. Frederick Griffin, Toronto Star, July 29, 1944.
5. Toronto Star, September 18, 1944.
6. Ibid.
7. Smythe, If You Can’t, 65.
8. Globe and Mail, September 19, 1944.
9. J. L. Granatstein, Canada’s War: The Politics of the Mackenzie King Government, 1939–1945 (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975), 336. Note: The figures for Canada’s Zombie army varied wildly at the time, and afterward. The 60,000 figure was used by Ralston and is the one most commonly quoted.
10. Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King (online), September 19, 1944.
11. Hunter, War Games, 138.
12. Toronto Telegram, September 19, 1944.
13. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
14. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
15. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
16. Lytle, Toronto Star, September 2, 1944.
17. Lytle, Toronto Star, September 5, 1944.
18. Lytle, Toronto Star, September 20, 1944.
19. Editorial, Ottawa Journal, reprinted in Globe and Mail, September 23, 1944.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Globe and Mail, September 22, 1944.
23. Hunter, War Games, 148–149.
24. Smythe, If You Can’t, 169.
25. King diaries, February, 27, 1939.
26. Ibid., November 11, 1942.
27. Grattan O’Leary, The George Drew I Knew (Montreal: Woodward, undated), 2.
28. Pierre Berton, Marching as to War: Canada’s Turbulent Years, 1899–1953 (Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2001), 334–339; Jonathan Manthorpe, The Power and the Tories: Ontario Politics, 1943 to the Present (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1974).
29. George Drew papers, Library Archives Canada, October 5, 1944.
30. Hugh Smythe, interview by author, February 20, 2010.
31. Smythe, If You Can’t, 172.
32. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
35. King diaries, October 5, 1944.
36. Ibid.
37. Smythe, If You Can’t, 170.
38. Hunter, War Games, 175.
39. Ibid., 179.
40. Richard S. Malone, Missing from the Record (Toronto: William Collins and Sons, 1946), 150.
41. Ibid., 153.
42. King diaries, October 13, 1944.
43. Ibid., October 25, 1944.
44. Granatstein, Canada’s War, 357.
45. Smythe, If You Can’t, 171.
46. Ibid., 168.
47. R. MacGregor Dawson, The Conscription Crisis of 1944 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1961), 2.
48. King diaries, March 7, 1945.
1. Toronto Star, December 8, 1944.
2. Toronto Star, November 12, 1944.
3. Toronto Star, April 6, 1944.
4. Smythe, If You Can’t, 175.
5. Ibid., 176.
6. Toronto Star, October 3, 1945.
7. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
8. Toronto Star, October 15, 1945.
9. Toronto Star, October 17, 1945.
10. Toronto Star, October 18, 1945.
11. Lytle, Toronto Star, February 1, 1946.
12. Toronto Star, February 15, 1946.
13. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Smythe, If You Can’t, 178.
17. Lytle, Toronto Star, February 23, 1946.
18. Joe Perlove, Toronto Star, March 23, 1946.
19. Gordon Walker, Toronto Star, March 30, 1946.
20. Ted Reeve, undated telegram, Hockey Hall of Fame files, Frank Selke.
21. Frank Selke Jr., interview by author, August 23, 2010.
22. Globe and Mail, May 31, 1946.
23. Montreal Star, July 10, 1946.
1. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
2. Young fonds.
3. J. V. McAree, Globe and Mail, October 4, 1947.
4. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
5. Globe and Mail, November 27, 1947.
6. Toronto Star, November 21, 1947.
7. Smythe, If You Can’t, 179.
8. Frayne, “Ice Man.”
9. Hugh Smythe, interview by author.
10. Kevin Shea, Barilko: Without a Trace (Toronto: Fenn, 2004), 5.
11. Ibid., 22–23.
12. Jack Batten, The Leafs in Autumn (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1975), 43.
13. Richard Kincaide, The Gods of Olympia Stadium: Legends of the Detroit Red Wings (Champaign, IL: Sports Publishing LLC, 2003), 52.
14. Shea, Barilko, 89.
15. Ibid, 100.
17. Batten, Leafs in Autumn, 31–32.
18. Ibid., 33.
19. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
20. Charlie Hodge, Golly Gee It’s Me: The Howie Meeker Story (Toronto: Stoddart, 1996), 92.
21. Ibid., 94–95.
22. Globe and Mail, April 21, 1947.
23. Toronto Star, April 19, 1947.
24. Baz O’Meara, Montreal Star, October 1946.
25. Montreal Herald, October 29, 1946.
26. Globe and Mail, October 28, 1946.
27. Toronto Star, April 9, 1947.
28. Perlove, Toronto Star, April 11, 1947.
29. Ibid.
30. Gaye Stewart, interview by author, July 27, 2010.
31. Globe and Mail, October 28, 1947.
32. Max Bentley, www.legendsofhockey.net.
33. Hugh Smythe, interview by author.
34. Saturday Night, December 8, 1951.
35. Batten, Leafs in Autumn, 109.
36. Globe and Mail, November 30, 1949.
37. Frayne, Mad Men, 152.
38. Toronto Star, November 11, 1949.
39. Globe and Mail, December 1, 1949.
40. Toronto Star, December 2, 1949.
41. Globe and Mail, December 3, 1949.
42. Batten, Leafs in Autumn, 87.
43. Hugh Smythe, interview by author.
44. Ibid.
45. Milt Dunnell, Toronto Star, February 1, 1951.
46. Ibid.
47. Shea, Barilko, 131.
1. Marshall Smith, Life, March 5, 1951, 84.
2. Bunny Morganson, Hockey News, January 6, 1949.
3. Trent Frayne, Maclean’s, January 15, 1952.
4. Ibid.
5. Saturday Night, December 8, 1951.
6. Hockey Hall of Fame, Smythe file, undated.
7. Smythe, If You Can’t, 185.
8. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Hodge, Golly Gee, 204.
12. Howie Meeker, interview by author, October 7, 2010.
13. Smythe, If You Can’t, 197.
14. Frank Selke, letter, May 1, 1953, courtesy of Frank Selke Jr.
15. Smythe, If You Can’t, 191.
16. Globe and Mail, February 21, 1951.
17. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
18. Ibid.
19. Toronto Star, February 1, 1955.
20. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
21. Kevin Shea, St. Michael’s College: 100 Years of Pucks and Prayers (Toronto: Fenn, 2008), 9.
22. Ibid., 32.
23. Dick Duff, interview by author, July 24, 2010.
24. Ibid.
25. Ted Mahovlich, The Big M: The Frank Mahovlich Story (Toronto: HarperCollins, 1999), 16–17.
26. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
27. Mahovlich, Big M, 29.
28. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 116.
29. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
30. Shea, St. Michael’s College, 33.
1. Hugh Smythe, interview by author.
2. Batten, Leafs of Autumn, 5.
3. Smythe, If You Can’t, 64.
4. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
5. Globe and Mail, March 25, 1957.
6. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
7. Hugh Smythe, interview by author.
8. Jim Gregory, interview by author, September 1, 2010.
9. Frank Selke Jr., interview by author, August 23, 2010.
10. Dick Beddoes, Pal Hal: An Uninhibited, No-Holds Barred Account of the Life and Times of Harold Ballard (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1989), 83.
11. Ibid.
12. Jim Gregory, interview by author, September 1, 2010.
13. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
14. Howie Meeker, interview by author, October 7, 2010.
15. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
16. Irvin, The Habs, 107.
17. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
18. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
19. Toronto Star, March 25, 1957.
20. Toronto Star, March 13, 1957.
21. Toronto Star, March 18, 1957.
22. Ibid.
23. Globe and Mail, March 25, 1957.
24. Globe and Mail, March 26, 1957.
25. Globe and Mail, March 27, 1957.
26. Toronto Star and Globe and Mail, March 28, 1957.
27. Toronto Star, March 11, 1957.
28. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
29. Smythe, If You Can’t, 199–200.
30. Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame, www.sporthall.ca.
31. Hodge, Golly Gee, 221.
32. Ibid., 224.
33. Smythe fonds, October 3, 1957.
34. Dick Irvin, interview by author, July 31, 2010.
35. Irvin, Now Back to You Dick, 39.
1. Dick Duff, interview by author, July 24, 2010.
2. Frank Mahovlich, interview by author, August 18, 2010.
3. Bob Baun, interview by author, August 16, 2010.
4. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
5. Ibid.
6. Howie Meeker, interview by author, October 7, 2010.
7. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
1. Toronto Star, May 9, 1957.
2. Toronto Star, March 10, 1957.
3. Gordon Campbell, Toronto Star, April 10, 1957.
4. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
5. Selke, Behind the Cheering, 156.
6. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
7. Ibid.
8. Toronto Star, January 10, 1973.
9. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
10. Ibid.
11. Bob Baun, interview by author, August 16, 2010.
12. Hugh Smythe, interview by author, October 6, 2010.
13. Globe and Mail, May 18, 1964.
14. Lester Pearson papers, Library and Archives Canada.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
18. Ibid.
19. Toronto Star, May 19, 1964.
20. Smythe, If You Can’t, 225.
21. Ibid., 222.
22. Ibid., 227.
23. Ibid., 226.
24. Globe and Mail, June 21, 1965.
25. Batten, The Leafs, 110.
26. Toronto Star, November 24, 1961.
27. Smythe, If You Can’t, 217.
28. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
29. Toronto Star, June 26, 1969.
30. Toronto Star, March 9, 1966.
31. Ibid.
32. Toronto Star, August 29, 1966.
33. Young fonds.
34. Frank Selke Jr., interview by author, August 23, 2010.
35. Toronto Star, August 29, 1966.
36. Toronto Star, February 2, 1951.
37. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
38. Ibid.
39. Red Burnett, Toronto Star, August 25, 1966.
40. Globe and Mail, June 27, 1966.
41. Toronto Star and Globe and Mail, October 1, 1968.
42. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
43. Thomas Stafford Smythe with Kevin Shea, Centre Ice, Fenn; Bolton, Ont; 2000, p. 115.
44. Toronto Star, June 27, 1969.
45. Ibid.
46. Hugh Smythe, interview by author, October 6, 2010.
47. Smythe, If You Can’t, 243.
48. Globe and Mail, October 14, 1971.
49. www.cottageblog.ca/2008/11/28/conn-stafford-smythe-rip-in-beautiful-muskoka/
50. Smythe, If You Can’t, 244.
51. Young fonds.
52. Toronto Star, January 30, 1975.
53. Smythe, If You Can’t, 243.
54. www.cottageblog.ca/2008/11/28/conn-stafford-smythe-rip-in-beautiful-muskoka/
55. Globe and Mail, January 5, 1972.
56. Hugh Smythe, interview by author.
1. Toronto Telegram, June 12, 1971.
2. Globe and Mail, June 12, 1971.
3. Toronto Star, September 29 1973, January 10, 1973.
4. Ibid.
5. Toronto Star, February 10, 1973.
6. Jack Batten, “King Conn,” The Canadian, 1978.
7. Ibid.
8. Toronto Star, January 30, 1975.
9. Thomas Stafford Smythe with Kevin Shea, Centre Ice, Fenn; Bolton, Ont; 2000, p. 127.
10. Smythe, If You Can’t, 261.
11. Globe and Mail, May 14, 1977.
12. Young fonds.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Smythe fonds, Archives of Ontario.
17. Young fonds.