The Ned Hanlan was the tugboat that Diefenbaker toured the Toronto coastline in a few days after the cancellation of the Avro Arrow deal, in an effort to show that he still liked Toronto, though the cancellation hurt the city. The Ned Hanlan went along the Scarborough Bluffs, in an act of goodwill (many of the Avro engineers lived in the new postwar subdivisions in Scarborough) but it is said that there was a long and steady line of "moonings" from the top of the bluffs that day. Because of this the trip was cut short, and the tugboat returned to the docks at the foot of bathurst.
When it was decomissioned it was almost sold for scrap, but a group of prominent city Progressive Conservatives saved it and had it shipped to the Ex where they hoped that a memorial to Diefenbaker would one day be built, but some of Ned Hanlan's descendents argued that Hanlan would never have supported Diefenbaker and was in fact a big Liberal/Wilfred Laurier supporter in his time.
So the tug sat in limbo, as it does today, falling apart over the years.
