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Notable People from Timmins.

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

   * Shania Twain, country music singer.
   * 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
   * Jimmy Mair-NHL Player  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.101.111.10 (talk) 17:41, 31 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

There are a number of NHL players absent from this list. Others that are included are actually fom elsewhere.

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Timmins Redirect

I made Timmins redirect here, and created Timmins (disambiguation) for what was originally there. I would say that this is the most prominant use of the name Timmins, the other 4 are Noah Timmins, and four of his grandchildren, (three are in the Cowboy Junkies, all articles are stubs). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kelapstick (talk • contribs) 20:27, 21 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Project Ratings

I moved this article's importance rating to "Mid" to be consistent with most of the other cities in Ontario. PKT (talk) 23:24, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sister city

Why is the sister city listed in Japan? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.159.7.116 (talk) 07:04, 1 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Rename page

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move Mind matrix 15:47, 15 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This page should be renamed to simply Timmins, in accordance with WP:CANSTYLE, replacing the existing redirect. Timmins (disambiguation) lists no other places, and otherwise lists people who are properly titled by full names. Therefore this place name should be considered primary usage. Dl2000 (talk) 02:56, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support move per nom. DigitalC (talk) 03:56, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. The Ontario city is the primary use. We don't disambiguate settlements on Wikipedia merely due to persons with the same surnames. Skeezix1000 (talk) 12:55, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nomination and WP:PRIMARYUSAGE. Mind matrix 15:17, 3 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support this uncontroversial move, see my comments in Timmins Redirect--Kelapstick (talk) 19:59, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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sports

I've added Paul Harrison as an NHL player. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.101.121.21 (talk) 15:35, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Stub Sections

It seems that alot of the sections are just links to other sections. Instead of just posting the links, someone should make a summary of the section instead. It is just a thought. I will check on this and if nobody does it, I will do it one my spare time. 67.204.198.44 (talk) 04:10, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Demographics wrong

According to Statistics Canada, the population of Timmins increased 0.4% between 2006 and 2011 (not 3.1% as stated in the article) for a 2011 population of 43,165 (not 45,000).

Here is the link to the census article. I don't know how to include the reference. Perhaps someone could update it. http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=3556027&Geo2=CD&Code2=3556&Data=Count&SearchText=Timmins&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=&TABID=1

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IP edit about 'Hans Buttner'

@Magnolia677: Dear Magnolia,
Thank you for reverting this edit, here. Like you, I had already checked the original edit (by the IP) earlier this morning and allowed it to stand, because that detail is mentioned in the external link at the bottom of the page of the linked-to article on the McIntyre Mines. To make things clearer, though, I have tidied up that link and inserted it also into the present article—right after "Discovered by Sandy McIntyre (1869-1943),"— and it is now #5 ("Founding Fathers") in the list of references. In passing, I also tidied up a couple of other ref tags by replacing the raw urls with 'cite web' templates.
In summary, the earlier (unsourced) edit by the IP was correct, although it was sourced only in the linked-to article. It's up to you, but it would be sourced in the present article also if you or anyone else wanted to re-instate the mention of 'Hans Buttner'.
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Red links

Hi, if someone could redirect those red links or create the pages, that would be helpful. Thank you! ~Regina (Nov 15, 2021) 2001:1970:568B:6900:AD13:12D4:A2A2:59A0 (talk) 23:26, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]