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The coat of arms of Thunder Bay, Ontario, is a combination of the coats of arms of both Port Arthur and Fort William, with a unifying symbol—the Sleeping Giant—at the base of the arms. [83] Corporate logo. The city logo depicts a stylized thunderbird, called Animikii, a statue of which is located at the city's Kaministiquia River Heritage ...
British/Canadian fur traders wanted to create a new center of operations to avoid US taxes, and so the trading post was moved north to what became Fort William on the Canadian side of the border. [1] Fort William Historical Park is known as a living history site. Numerous historic buildings have been reconstructed to show the range of the post ...
The Thunder Bay Historical Society was founded October 2, 1908 at the instance of Barlow Cumberland, president of the Ontario Historical Society. Peter McKellar served as president of the Thunder Bay Historical Society from 1908 to 1923.
"Theatre and music on Ontario's frontier 1876–1907 : town hall entertainment in Victorian Thunder Bay," Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, Papers and Records, XXXVI (2008), 24–52. Thunder Bay from rivalry to unity / edited by Thorold J. Tronrud and A. Ernest Epp. Thunder Bay : Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1995. ISBN 0-920119-22-0.
Waverley Park. Waverley Park is a public park located in the north end of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.It is the second oldest municipal park in Ontario. The park forms the centre of the Waverley Park Heritage Conservation District, a collection of historical homes, churches, schools, and other buildings at the centre of Port Arthur.
Fort William First Nation (Ojibwe: Animkii Wajiw [2]) is an Ojibwa First Nation reserve in Ontario, Canada. The administrative headquarters for this band government is south of Thunder Bay. As of January 2008, the First Nation had a registered population of 1,798 people, of which their on-Reserve population was 832 people.
The Centennial Conservatory (also known as the Centennial Botanical Conservatory or the Thunder Bay Conservatory) is a commemorative Centennial Project donated to the citizens of Fort William as their legacy. Construction started in 1965 [3] and was for the most part completed in 1966 leaving one year for seeding and growing. It was finally ...
Thunder Bay is an extensive diamond-shaped body of water surrounded by cliffs rising from 300 metres (1,000 ft) to 460 metres (1,500 ft) out of the lake. It is about 55 kilometres (34 mi) long in a northeast-southwest direction, and about 24 kilometres (15 mi) wide from northwest to southeast.