Nickname/Logo Help From Our Canadian Friends

[AZJAZ]

In order to have an adequte league structure and size for my newest project I threw togehter 4 teams in Ontario Canada. For those of you familiar with the following cities some logo/nickname suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hamilton ?
London?
Oshawa ?
Kitchener ?

P.S. I am using Truthserum's transparent circular style logos.

[Khan]

See Silvam's Canadian league logos here, https://home.comcast.net/~silvam14/C...n%20League.htm

He's got one's for each of those cities, Hamilton bulldogs, London Monarchs,
Oshawa Generals and Kitchener Panthers.

You might even just check out some of truthserums fictional logos and just pick names.

There's also these by Illeracula. The Knights logo is square, but maybe someone can alter it or has a round circle version.(Edit... duh or you could just use Truthserum's Charlotte Knights logo )

LOL, if you read this quick enough, I accidentally linked to the Spiderman 3 teaser... oops.

[AZJAZ]

I checked truthserums and I like them alot. I just wanted to know if any Canadians had some hints on "realistic" nicknames.

[AZJAZ]

Two more cities

Barrie?
Windsor?

[Khan]

Hmm.. well the London Monarchs was a real team in the CBL (defunct).

How about the Intercounty league, it's an amateur league though some former major leaguers have and do play in it.

Check out their teams page here, http://www.icbaseball.com/teams.html

Some cool logos there, might need someone to update them for the game though.

[SSG Troyer]

Barrie Baycats from the IBL ...

[Tyke]

In the Scottish Football [Soccer] League there is a team called Hamilton Academicals. Any good?

[Pierre-Luc]

Hi,

Well Hamilton is a traditional steeltown, so without necessarily using something that actually existed, you could use that theme. Something like the Hamilton Alloy, or the Welders, the Volcanoes etc...

Kitchener, maybe to its chagrin, is often mentioned alongside its nieghbour, Waterloo. So maybe you can go with a Twin theme.

Windsor is often associated either with car manufacturing or its proximity, yet cultural distance, to Detroit.

Barrie does not ring much, though it is, somewhat, on the way to Cottage country.

London and Kitchener are somewhat conservative, and Kingston especially emphasizes its colonial British heritage.

[treedom]

When I think of Kingston, I think "jail".

[AZJAZ]

Thanks for the help guys. I appreciate it. I like getting a realistic nickname if I can.

Also

Academicals

Is that a combination of someone who is in academia and a chemical? An intelligent disinfectant?

[Tyke]

lol! I think the soccer club was originally the team from a school called the Hamilton Academy, or possibly a team made up of former students at that school.

[treedom]

Steelers is another good one for Hamilton.

[Stealcompany]

Hamilton had a NY-Penn team several years back called the Red Birds (a cardinals farm team)

London has had ball and hockey teams called the Tecumseths after the indian chief killed in the War of 1812, the one where we beat (tied??) the Americans.

The name Barrie Flyers has a long history

Windsor has had hockey teams called the Spitfires for years

Toronto had a baseball team called the Maple Leafs years before they had a hockey team of the same name.

[Eugene Church]

Not a Canadian, but here are some suggestions based on the town histories.

HAMILTON HAMMERS
HAMILTON HARD HATS
HAMILTON STEELERS (repeat suggestion)

Its nicknames — all relating to its waning days as a major industrial centre — include the Ambitious City, Steeltown, the Hammer, Hammertown, and the Lunchbucket City. However, health care has outstripped heavy industry — exemplified by the twin steel giants of Stelco and Dofasco — as the largest employer. Moreover, the education, government, services and technology sectors have all dramatically developed as heavy industry has declined.

[Eugene Church]

LONDON LABATTS

play on the the word "bats" and "Labatt Park".

Labatt Park, which opened in 1877, is the world's oldest operating baseball grounds still in its original location. Your team could play here.

LONDON CROWNS

English colony and named for city of London, England...even has a Thames River.

[Eugene Church]

OSHAWA TRAILBLAZERS

Two visiting Indians were asked for their opinion of this name. They suggested the Indian name "Oshawa", the literal translation of which is "that point at the crossing of the stream where the canoe was exchanged for the trail".

OSHAWA COACHMEN
OSHAWA TRAVELERS
OSHAWA HIGHWAYMEN

In 1876, Robert McLaughlin, who had already established a carriage works business, relocated to Oshawa, drawn by its flourishing rail and harbour facilities. With the help of a $50,000 interest-free loan from the Town of Oshawa, the McLaughlin Carriage Company quickly developed into the largest carriage works in the British Empire.

OSHAWA LAKERS
OSHAWA SHIPPERS

Important harbor is there on Lake Ontario...used heavily for lake shipping.

[Eugene Church]

KITCHENER CROWNS
Established by the British, but heavily settled by the Germans.

KITCHENER KAISERS
For German heritage.
It is a City firmly rooted in its German heritage but also keenly aware of the many streams of culture and country that blend together to produce the multicultural community it is today.


KITCHENER GENERALS
On June 9, 1912, Berlin officially became a City and was considered to be Canada's German Capital. However, with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 came anti-German sentiment and an internal conflict ensued as the City was forced to confront its cultural distinctiveness. There was pressure for the City to change its name from Berlin, and in 1916 following much debate and controversy, the name of the City was changed to Kitchener, after the British General Horatio Herbert Kitchener who won fame during the Boer War.

[Eugene Church]

BARRIE BAYSOX
located on Kempenfelt Bay.

BARRIE 400'S
Barrie has a good highway. It is called the 400. Many people live in Barrie and drive to work in Toronto on the 400 highway. If the highway were not here, Barrie would be a small town. Barrie is growing.

BARRIE ADMIRALS
The City of Barrie was named after Sir Robert Barrie about 1832, at which time he was stationed in Kingston and in command of all the naval forces in Canada, having passed through Barrie on his journey for the annual inspection of the naval establishments at Penetanguishene.

[Eugene Church]

WINDSOR WHEELS
Windsor competes with Oshawa, Ontario for the title of automotive capital of Canada, with Windsor housing Daimler-Chrysler's Canadian Headquaters, and Oshawa housing General Motors' Canadian Headquarters. Its industries include the DaimlerChrysler mini-van assembly plant, several Ford Motor Company engine and casting plants and General Motors' transmission plant.

WINDSOR SKYROCKETS
Every summer Windsor co-hosts the two-week-long Windsor-Detroit International Freedom Festival, which culminates in a gigantic fireworks display that celebrates Canada Day and the American Independence Day. The fireworks display is among the world's largest and is held on the final Wednesday in June on the Detroit River between the two downtowns. Each year, the event attracts over a million spectators to both sides of the riverfront.

WINDSOR TORNADOES
Being on the northeastern edge of Tornado Alley, Windsor is prone to tornadoes, much like the US Midwest. It is also a part of a miniature "Tornado Alley", stretching northeast towards Peterborough, where most of Ontario's tornadoes form.

[AZJAZ]

Wow, those are great!!! Now I just need to piece together some logos.