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The City of Thunder Bay has three histories. The twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur were amalgamated in 1970. Thunder Bay's past is linked with the parallel but separate pasts of the two cities. Port Arthur was a city in Northern Ontario which amalgamated with Fort William and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Thunder Bay is located on Lake Superior. European settlement in the region began in the late seventeenth century with a French fur trading outpost on the banks of the Kaministiquia River. It grew into an important transportation hub with its port forming an important link in the shipping of grain and other products from west...
This volume is a pioneering excursion into the documentary history of a region of northern Ontario. Previously published original documents on the history of the Thunder Bay area have been of two kinds: accounts of the fur trade before 1821, and evidence supporting rival claims in the boundary disputes of the 1870s and 1880s. Although this collection does not include some illustrative material on these topics, its main purpose is to shed light upon other aspects of northern development, including the best-known and most pervasive problem—isolation from the rest of British North America. This volume deals with events up to 1892, considerably later than any of the other volumes in the Ontari...
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The Funger lake Area covers approximately 386 square km in the District ofThunder Bay. The centre of the map area is about 30 km northwest of the townof Armstrong. The map area includes Early Precambrian (Archean) rocks of thevolcanic-plutonic Wabigoon subprovince of the Superior Province and lesserLate Precambrian (Proterozoic) rocks of the Nipigon Plate of the SouthernProvince.