Thunder Bay, Ontario

Thunder Bay ({{coor dm|48|23|N|89|15|W|}}, time zone EST) is a city in and the seat of Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is the second largest city in Northern Ontario (2001 population 109,016http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/popdwell/Table-CSD-P.cfm?T=1&PR=35&SR=526&S=1&O=A; CMA 121,986http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/popdwell/Table-CMA-P.cfm?T=1&PR=35&SR=26&S=1&O=A). The city takes its name from the immense bay at the head of Lake Superior, known on 18th century French maps as "Baie du Tonnerre". The city was formed in 1970 by the merger of the cities of Fort William, Ontario, Port Arthur, Ontario and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre. Its port forms an important link in the shipping of grain and other products from western Canada through the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway to the east coast. The city is often referred to as the Lakehead or Canadian Lakehead because of its location at the end of Great Lakes navigation.

Famous people

• Jack Adams, hockey player, hockey coach and general manager
• Mary J.L. Black, Fort William librarian
• Ken Boshcoff, former Mayor, Canadian politician
• Maurice Russell Brown, 1912-, mining journalist
• Derek Burney, civil servant, diplomat, businessman
• Clifford Chatterton, chairman War Amputees, veterans' activist.
• Joe Comuzzi, politician
• James Conmee, 1848-1913, politician
• Julian Gifford Cross, 1888-1971, mining engineer
• Bobby Curtola, musician, b. 1944
• Simon James Dawson, 1820-1902, surveyor, civil engineer, politician
• Alex Delvecchio, hockey player
• Mary Riter Hamilton, 1873-1954, Port Arthur artist
• Curt Harnett, Olympic cyclist
• Clarence Decatur Howe, 1886-1960, Canadian politician
• Sanford Jackson, clinical chemist
• Trevor Johansen, hockey player
• Greg Johnson, hockey player
• Mauri Kaipainen, musicologist
• Edgar Laprade, hockey player, b. 1919
• Bora Laskin, Chief Justice Supreme Court of Canada
• Hugh LeCaine, 1914-1977, physicist, composer, inventor
• Pentti Lund, hockey player, b. 1925
• Elsie MacGill, aeronautical engineer
• Lyn McLeod, Ontario politician
• Arthur Mauro, lawyer, businessman.
• Robert James Manion, 1881-1943, Canadian politician
• Dorothea Mitchell, 1877-1976, filmmaker
• Dean M. Mostow, 2005 internet poker champ - pokerstars.net - purse 250,000US
• David Pall, 1914-2004, chemist
• Diane Schoemperlen, writer
• Paul Shaffer, musician
• Taylor Pyatt, hockey player
• Steve Rucchin, hockey player
• Elizabeth Lawrie Smellie, 1884-1968, nurse, colonel
• Vampiro, professional wrestler
• Paul C. Weiler, law professor Harvard
• Raymond A. Zuliani, Rear-Admiral, Canadian Forces (ret'd), b. 1948