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By 1975, the Centre moved to its current location at 16 Spadina Road, the former Toronto Bible College, and celebrated its opening officially in 1977, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by Ontario Premier Bill Davis. [2] [3] [5] In 2020 the Ukrainian Museum of Canada, Toronto jointly curated an exhibition on beadwork with the centre. [6]
The Anishinaabe (alternatively spelled Anishinabe, Anicinape, Nishnaabe, Neshnabé, Anishinaabeg, Anishinabek, Aanishnaabe [2]) are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States.
Money was raised to build a site. Funds came from the Jesuits, and the Roman Catholic dioceses of Sault Sainte Marie, Hearst and Thunder Bay. The centre was built by volunteers who also created a sawmill on site to help with the construction. It started in 1982. By 1984, the main building and the chapel were completed.
Mount McKay is a mafic sill located south of Thunder Bay, Ontario on the Indian Reserve of the Fort William First Nation. It formed during a period of magmatic activity associated with the large Midcontinent Rift system about 1,100 million years ago. McKay was originally known as the "Thunder Mountain" (Animkii Wajiw) in the Ojibwe language ...
On March 30, 1992, a five-year Ontario First Nations Policing Agreement was signed by Grand Council of Treaty 3, Nishnawbe Aski Nation, Association of Iroquois & Allied Indians, Anishinabek Nation, Six Nations and the Provincial and Federal Government.
Darren Zack – inducted into the International Softball Congress Hall of Fame, four world championship titles with teams in Toronto, Tampa Bay (Florida) and Decatur, Ill. 1997 National Aboriginal Achievement Award in the sports Canadian Softball Hall of Fame in 2009. He also led Canada to three consecutive Pan American Games gold medals (1991 ...
Built in 1910, the Finnish Labour Temple was at one point one of the largest workers' halls in Canada in addition to being the centre of Finnish cultural and political life in Northwestern Ontario. The hall housed the historic Hoito Restaurant , a museum, and featured a large stage, dance floor, and hall as well as meeting rooms for various groups.
Fort William Sanatorium was a tuberculosis hospital or sanatorium in Fort William, Ontario, today part of the city of Thunder Bay. It opened in 1935 as a tuberculosis treatment centre for settlers, adding 20 government-funded beds for Indigenous patients in 1941. [1] [2] [3] [4]