A modest proposal: Maple Leaf Museum

In these pages last week, you ruminated about your long search for a Toronto museum, a journey that has led you to St. Lawrence Hall, on King St. E. Here's my unsolicited advice: shift your gaze several blocks north, to a hulking, vacant building that sits squarely in the middle of this city's emotional core.

Maple Leaf Gardens.

As president of the Canadian Urban Institute, you've been involved in developing a heritage plan for the Gardens as Loblaw, its current owner, attempts to transform the house that Conn Smythe built into yet another big box store.

It's time we begin thinking very differently about what is inarguably one of Toronto's most culturally significant structures. And you can kick-start this discussion.

Let me lay out the case for the Gardens.

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