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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 ...
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.
Current River is a neighbourhood located north east of Port Arthur in the city of Thunder Bay, Ontario.It is separated from the main urban area of Thunder Bay by the Current River Greenway, a large parkland along the river after which the neighbourhood was named.
Thunder Bay has a central location within Canada, and is located in the middle of the Trans-Canada Highway system, crossed by railways, and is the location of the largest outbound port on the St. Lawrence Seaway System [1] and the fifth busiest airport in Ontario by aircraft movements.
Fort William Historical Park (formerly known as Old Fort William) is a Canadian historical site located in Thunder Bay, Ontario, that contains a reconstruction of the Fort William fur trade post as it existed in 1815. It officially opened on July 3, 1973.
Thunder Bay District was created in 1871 by provincial statute from the western half of Algoma District, named after a large bay on the north shore of Lake Superior.Its northern and western boundaries were uncertain until Ontario's right to Northwestern Ontario was determined by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. [4]
George Thomas Marks (1893–1899)Thunder Bay city council sworn inThunder Bay city council sworn in; Isaac Lamont Matthews (1901–1902) and (1909–1910) and (1920–1923) George O.P. Clavet (1903–1904) and (1906–1907) Richard Vigars (1905) John James Carrick (1908) Samuel Wellington Ray (1911–1912) John Albert Oliver (1913–1914)
Donald James Cowan (born in Drumbo, Blenheim Township, Oxford County, Ontario) (1883–1964), mayor of Port Arthur, 1916–1917; Crown attorney for Thunder Bay District, Ontario [citation needed] Charles Winnans Cox (born in Westminster Township, Middlesex County, Ontario ) (1882–1958), longest-serving mayor of Port Arthur, 1934–1948 and ...