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32 unusual facts about Thunder Bay


Andreas Felder

In December that year he won the World cup competition in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.

Anette Fanqvist

She won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, and had her best individual finish of 27th in the 15 km event at those same championships.

Anna Frithioff

She won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, and had her best individual finish of 9th in the 5 km event at those same championships.

Beverage can

Mikola Kondakow of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, invented the pull tab version for bottles in 1956 (Canadian patent 476789).

Bombardier BiLevel Coach

There are more than seven hundred such coaches in service today and almost all have been built at the company's Thunder Bay, and Plattsburgh, New York plants.

CCGS Samuel Risley

Based in the Great Lakes, CCGS Samuel Risley is responsible for keeping an ice-free passage between Port Colborne, Ontario and Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Don Talbot

He then moved to Canada for the first time and worked as head coach for both the Thunder Bay Thunderbolts Swim Club and the Canadian national swimming team.

Gail Neall

After the European trip, Neall went to Thunder Bay in Canada to train with Talbot for three months.

Gerd Siegmund

He won a silver medal in the team large hill at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario and finished 10th in the individual large hill at those same championships.

Global National

In addition to Global's owned-and-operated stations (O&Os), Global National also airs on affiliate CHFD-DT in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and independent station CJON-DT (NTV) in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Hansjörg Jäkle

Jäkle also won a silver medal in the team large hill at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Jim Jamieson

Other stints in Jamieson's career as a teaching and club pro have included lead instructor at the John Jacobs Golf School, head pro at The Pines Golf Club, head pro at the Pete Dye Golf Club, Director of Golf at Whitewater Golf Club in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and as operator of the Jim Jamieson School of Golf at the Resort at Glade Springs in Daniels, West Virginia.

Jinya Nishikata

He won a silver medal in the team large hill competition at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer and followed that up with a bronze medal in the team large hill competition at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Kazutoshi Nagahama

Nagahama's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 33rd in the 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit at Thunder Bay, Ontario in 1995.

Kenji Ogiwara

Ogiwara's twin brother Tsugiharu competed with him at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario, sharing a gold with him in the 4 x 5 km team event.

Kevin Durand

Durand was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, the son of Reina (née Perreault) and Serge Durand.

Marco Steinauer

At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, Steinauer earned his best overall finish of seventh in the team large hill event at Oberstdorf in 2005 and his best individual finish of 14th in the individual normal hill event at Thunder Bay in 1995.

Markus Wüst

He won a bronze medal in the 4 x 5 km team event at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Montreal-Est Rangers

The second game saw the Action playoff against the Fort William North Stars of Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Musselwhite mine

The Dash 8 300 series was purchased by the airway specifically for the transportation of personal from Thunder Bay to the mine.

Naoki Yasuzaki

He won a bronze medal in the team large hill competition at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario and finished 22nd in the individual large hill event at those same championships.

Night Lines

Some consistent callers included Vicki from Surrey (who later moved and became Vicki from Vancouver), Gilbert from Transcona (who used a mock-Gilbert Gottfried voice on the answering machine), Norm from Richmond, Rocky from Thunder Bay, Milton the Cabbie, Joanna from Hamilton, Sonya from Port Lambton, Ontario, Sean from Brandon, Manitoba, and Lori from Southfield, Michigan (USA).

Skytrain rolling stock

These trains are manufactured and assembled in Sahagun, Mexico, and Thunder Bay, Ontario.

SS Keewatin

SS Keewatin is a passenger liner that once sailed between Port Arthur / Fort William (now Thunder Bay) on Lake Superior and Port McNicoll on Georgian Bay (Lake Huron) in Ontario, Canada.

Sylvain Guillaume

He also won a bronze medal in the 15 km individual at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Terence A. McEwen

Though born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, McEwen grew up in the Montreal area where he learned to love opera and listened to the Met broadcasts.

Thomas Marks

Thomas Marks (June 21, 1834 – July 9, 1900) was an Irish-born Canadian businessman who served as the first mayor of Port Arthur, Ontario (later part of Thunder Bay).

Thunder Bay

Elizabeth Lawrie Smellie was a nurse, and the first woman to be promoted to the rank of colonel in the Canadian army.

TransCanada pipeline

In late 1957, during a high pressure line test on the section of the line from Winnipeg to Port Arthur (today called Thunder Bay), about five and a half kilometres of pipeline blew up near Dryden.

Vladimir Legotine

His best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 10th in the 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit event at Thunder Bay in 1995.

WGLI

Primarily serving the reservation and Keweenaw Peninsula at 100,000 watts, WGLI's signal can also be picked up across Lake Superior in Cook County, Minnesota and Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Zbyněk Krompolc

Krompolc competed at the 1995 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario, finishing 55th in the individual normal hill event.


Alex Auld

Auld was born in Cold Lake, Alberta when his father was stationed out of CFB Cold Lake; however, he spent the majority of his adolescence in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

CFB North Bay

Based on his exploration and survey work in the Northern Ontario region, in June 1933 DND set up a headquarters in North Bay to supervise construction of emergency landing fields for the Ottawa to Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay) portion of the Trans-Canada Airway system.

Goulais and District, Ontario

In Goulais Bay, Ontario, on the grounds of Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church built by Frederic Baraga, an Ontario Provincial Plaque explains that he was a pioneer missionary in northwestern Ontario responsible for Jesuit missions from Bruce Mines, Ontario to Thunder Bay, Ontario.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Keweenaw County, Michigan

Beginning in 1902, she ran three voyages per week among Duluth, Minnesota, Isle Royale, and Thunder Bay, Ontario, as well as numerous small communities in between.

Northwestern Ontario

Provincially, NDP Sarah Campbell represents Kenora—Rainy River while Liberals Bill Mauro and Michael Gravelle represent Thunder Bay—Atikokan and Thunder Bay—Superior North respectively.

At the federal level, Northwestern Ontario is represented by Conservative Greg Rickford in the Kenora District, New Democrat John Rafferty and Independent Bruce Hyer in Thunder Bay—Rainy River and Thunder Bay—Superior North respectively.

Silver Mountain Station

The history of the Silver Mountain area dates back to 1881 when prospector Oliver Daunais discovered silver southwest of Thunder Bay.

Wolseley Expedition

The expedition travelled to Georgian Bay, then by steamer across Lake Huron to the U.S. Sault Canal where men and materiel had to be transported on the Canadian side of the river, across Lake Superior to the Department of Public Works station at Thunder Bay which Wolseley named Prince Arthur's Landing on May 25, 1870, in honour of Queen Victoria's third son.