New memorial underway to honour victims of Listowel arena collapse
The names of Pete Leppard’s peewee hockey teammates who perished in the collapse of Listowel’s arena in 1959 are never far from his mind. On Feb. 28, 1959, under the weight of a large snowfall, the roof of Listowel Memorial Arena came crashing down, trapping more than two dozen peewee hockey players and their coaches -- Leppard was one of them.
Source: london.ctvnews.ca