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=== Naming === [[File:SkyDomeLogo.png|thumb|SkyDome wordmark (1989β2005)]] The official name prior to and during construction was the 'Ontario Stadium Project' but was widely referred to in local media as simply 'the Dome' or 'Toronto Domed stadium'. As completion neared the name "SkyDome" was chosen as part of a province-wide "name the stadium" contest in 1987. Sponsored by the ''[[Toronto Sun]]'', ballots were offered for people to submit their suggested name, with lifetime seats behind home plate to all events at the stadium (including concerts) as the prize. Over 150,000 entries were received with 12,897 different names. The selection committee narrowed it down to four choices: "Towerdome", "Harbourdome", "SkyDome", and simply "the Dome". The judges' final selection was SkyDome. Premier [[David Peterson]] drew the prize-winning entry of Kellie Watson from a lottery barrel containing the over-2,000 entries that proposed "SkyDome". At the press conference announcing the name, Chuck Magwood, president of the Stadium Corporation of Ontario (Stadco), the crown corporation created to run SkyDome,<ref>{{cite web|last=Anderson|first=M.E.|title=The Skydome a/k/a Rogers Centre, turns 25|url=http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2014-06-04/skydome-rogers-centre-25th-anniversary-blue-jays|website=Sporting News|access-date=November 19, 2014|archive-date=June 30, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630233544/http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2014-06-04/skydome-rogers-centre-25th-anniversary-blue-jays|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://business.highbeam.com/416338/article-1G1-30127808/skydome-then-and-now |title=SkyDome, then and now |access-date=April 8, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309210650/https://business.highbeam.com/416338/article-1G1-30127808/skydome-then-and-now |archive-date=March 9, 2016}}</ref> commented: "The sky is a huge part of the whole roof process. The name has a sense of the infinite and that's what this is all about." Kellie Watson received lifetime seating of choice at SkyDome, which is still honoured after the stadium was renamed to Rogers Centre, under new ownership.
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