Toontowner

From Toontown +‎ -er.

Toontowner (plural Toontowners)

1. (colloquial) A native or inhabitant of Saskatoon.

   Synonyms: Saskatonian, Saskatooner

   • 1991 July 11, “Check It Out! Your weekly guide to what’s happening in Regina”, in The Leader-Post, Regina, Sask., →ISSN, →OCLC, page D3, column 1:

     Toontowner brims with talent […] Saskatoon’s own Glen Stace, signed to WEA Records after Bumstead Productions paid close attention to a demo tape, is garnering rave reviews for his crisp-sounding debut album, Buddha Hotel.

   • 1993 August 24, Cynthia Robins, “Cyn City: They’re percolating at the Boogie Buffet: Breakfast crowd is not your lazy Sunday brunch bunch”, in San Francisco Examiner, 129th year, number 63, San Francisco, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B-3, columns 1–2:

     “Maybe a quarter of these people have been up all night,” says one of the Boogie Buffet’s organizers, a handsome trendoid named Paul Lamb, 30, whose vintage Moto Guzzi road bike is parked out front. “The rest of them,” says Lamb, “have rolled out of bed just to be here.” Trendsetters like Lamb and his partner-in-Boogie, ex-Toontowner Preston Lytton, used to hang upside down in the daytime and only come out at night.

   • 1995 January 23, Theresa Kirkpatrick, “[Renelle] Bryden, [Sherry] Scheirich advance to finals”, in The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Sask., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 2:

     [T]he only game Scheirich lost was the A final to fellow Toontowner Renelle Bryden.

   • 2003 October 15, Dave Balderstone, “Bunny sitter”, in alt.pets.rabbits‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 9 January 2025:

     > I believe Dave Balderstone, one thread down lives in Saskatoon, […]
     Yup. I suggested they post here. I'll be away one of the weeks in question, unfortunately.
     There was another apr^[sic] Toontowner whose name escapes me...

   • 2005 October 5, Sarath Peiris, “Community’s concern may have been a lifesaver”, in The StarPhoenix, Saskatoon, Sask., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A3, column 4:

     [H]aving grown up in Regina and spent 18 years in Saskatoon, I find the attidues among people in both centres not to be much different except, of course, for a few obligatory Regina put-downs that diehard Toontowners can’t seem to resist.