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Scarborough Firefighters
Seneca Princemen
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Alumni Corps member, Rod
Patterson marched with the Scarborough
Firefighters, Scarborough Princemen and Seneca
Princemen |
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| This is a corps that went through a few name
changes. They began life as the Scarborough Firefighters; for
a very brief time they were the Scarborough Princemen
and they eventually became the Seneca Princemen. In 1976 they
merged with the Toronto Optimists and a new corps, the
Seneca Optimists, was born.
I had planned on
creating two web pages, one for the Scarborough
Firefighters and one for the Seneca Princemen; however,
I've been told by a few former members that many of the
same people were in all of the incarnations and they
thought of themselves as the Scarborough Firefighters.
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Scarborough Firefighters, in the very early days |
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The Scarborough Firefighters History lesson starts in
1961 with the Highland Creek Boys Band. The fire department took over sponsorship
around 1964 and changed the name to the Scarborough Firefighters.
In 1965 they won the novice standstill
class over the Pickering Blue Notes and, in 1966, they went
Junior B. I believe that the fire department bowed
out after 1971 and they became the Scarborough Princemen.
The following year Seneca College became the
Sponsor and the Seneca Princemen were born. DCI judge
John Phillips was a member of the corps and that oldest
picture of the firefighters in white shirts (see above)
actually has John Philips in it. (Rod Patterson)
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Scarborough Princemen, about 1972 |
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This was one of the groups
I marched with and in 1961 the Scarborough Firefighters
were founded and in 1971 became the Scarborough
Princemen and in the summer of 1972 became Seneca
College Princemen from North York or Willowdale and in
1973 condensed to Seneca Princemen and in 1976 pooled
resources with Toronto Optimists to become Seneca
Optimists and we were not in a drum corps witness
protection program, just changes in sponsorship, and in
1998 Toronto, Scarborough, North York, East York,
Etobicoke and York were amalgamated as greater Toronto.
Whew!" (Linda Purgas)
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Seneca Princemen, 1975 |
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