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    Thunder Bay is a city in and the seat of Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is the most populous municipality in Northwestern Ontario and the second most populous (after Greater Sudbury) municipality in Northern Ontario; its population is 108,843 according to the 2021 Canadian Census.

  2. Thunder Bay is a large bay on the northern shore of Lake Superior, in Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. The bay is about 50 kilometres (31 mi) long and 22 kilometres (14 mi) wide. It is bordered to the east by the Sibley Peninsula at the southern tip of which is Thunder Cape, marking the entrance to the bay for ships approaching from the east.

  3. May 27, 1999 · Thunder Bay, city, seat of Thunder Bay district, west-central Ontario, Canada, on Lake Superior’s Thunder Bay, at the mouth of the Kaministiquia River. Probably first occupied by French fur traders as early as 1678, its site was permanently settled only after the birth of the towns Port Arthur and.

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    Paleo-Indian hunters followed herds of caribou into the Thunder Bay area about 10,000 years ago, at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation. Stone tools and weapons, copper artifacts and pottery made by these groups and their descendants have been identified at numerous archaeological sites in the district. At the time of the first European contact in ...

    Thunder Bay sits on the floodplains of the lower Kaministiquia, Neebing and McIntyre rivers. To the south is Mount McKay and the Nor'Westers, a range of steep-sided, flat-topped hills. To the east, about 25 km across the bay, is the Sibley Peninsula. The peninsula includes Nanibijou, or The Sleeping Giant, a rock formation about 33 km long with ver...

    The late 19th-century pioneer population of Fort William and Port Arthur was mostly male. The number of residents fluctuated wildly in response to changing employment opportunities in railway construction, shipping and silver mining. From about 3,000 inhabitants each in the late 1890s, the two cities grew rapidly up to 1914, with Fort William in th...

    Thunder Bay has the highest proportion of Indigenous residents among major cities in Canada. Census data likely under represents the number of Indigenous people in Thunder Bay at any given time, as many Indigenous people stay in Thunder Bay on a temporary basis, and are therefore not captured in the census. Indigenous people travel from surrounding...

    Historically, industries such as natural resource extraction, processing and transportation were important components of the Thunder Bay economy. The forest industry, including pulp and paper millsand wood-processing plants, was the largest industrial employer. Today, however, the industries employing the most Thunder Bay residents are health care ...

    Fort William was the hub of the fur-trade route to the Northwest. It gained new importance in 1885 when the Canadian Pacific Railway was completed, and a steadily increasing flow of western grain came into the region for shipment east. With the completion of the Manitoba to Port Arthur section of the Canadian Northern Railway (1902), Thunder Bay be...

    The municipal government is headed by a city council elected every four years, consisting of a mayor (elected at large) and 12 councillors (five elected at large, and one from each of the 7 wards).

    Thunder Bay has become the regional centre for cultural life in northwest Ontario. In the heart of the city is the Thunder Bay Community Auditorium, featuring performances by the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra and the Fort William Male Choir. There is one professional theatre company, Magnus Theatre, as well as a variety of amateur companies. Thund...

  4. Thunder Bay is the most populous city in Northwestern Ontario, in Canada. Its population was 107,909 as of the 2016 census. Before, it was two cities called Fort William and Port Arthur. Thunder Bay has the second largest population in Northern Ontario, behind Greater Sudbury .

  5. History of Thunder Bay. Thunder Bay has a rich and exciting past. A brief history is told in the following sections. We acknowledge that Thunder Bay is built on the traditional territory of the Anishinabek, which includes the Ojibwa of Fort William First Nation, signatory to the Robinson-Superior Treaty of 1850.

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    Thunder Bay is the most populous city in Northwestern Ontario, in Canada. Its population was 107,909 as of the 2016 census. Before, it was two cities called Fort William and Port Arthur. Thunder Bay has the second largest population in Northern Ontario, behind Greater Sudbury. Quick Facts Country, Province ... Close. Oops something went wrong:

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