 After a fight for control, involving Neonex and Jim Pattison, the partnership split, with the Leitch family gaining control of the shipping business, and Norris, Maple Leaf Mills.Lawsuits over the Neonex bid took 13 years to settle, and almost bankrupted Pattison.When Maple Leaf Mills facility at Port Colborne was destroyed by fire in 1960, milling operations came to Toronto.