Car Shipping Thunder Bay, Auto Transport Ontario
Thunder Bay, the seat of Thunder Bay District, is the most populous municipality in northwestern Ontario with a population of 108,359 in the 2011 Census. It became an important link in shipments of grain from western Canada through the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway to the east coast. Forestry and manufacturing, once important in the city’s economy have declined in recent years, replaced by an economy based on medical research and education. Thunder Bay is the site of the Thunder Bay Regional Research Institute.
By the 1850s, discovery of copper in Michigan prompted an interest in mining on the Canadian shores of Lake Superior. In 1859–60 the Department of Crown Lands surveyed the town plot of Fort William for settlement. Another settlement developed a few miles to the north of Fort William around a public works depot named Prince Arthur’s Landing and renamed Port Arthur in 1883.
The arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1875 sparked a long rivalry between the towns. At first, Fort William was the larger and more dynamic community. The collapse of silver mining after 1890 devastated the Port Arthur economy, which went into a depression while Fort William thrived.
Both cities granted bonuses to manufacturing industries. By 1914 the twin cities had modern sewers, safe water supplies, and electric street lighting. As early as 1892, Port Arthur had Canada’s first municipal electric street railway. In 1902, both cities rejected Bell Telephone of Canada in favor of their own municipal telephone systems. In January 1970, the City of Thunder Bay formed from the consolidation of Fort William, Port Arthur, and two geographic townships.
Thunder Bay today is the regional services center for northwestern Ontario with most provincial departments. Lakehead University and Confederation College are major economic assets. The businessmen and professionals who attracted these two academic institutions drove the political consolidation of Fort William and Port Arthur in 1970.
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