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This is a framed visual of two fish caught by Dr. Cook a prominent doctor and fisherman in Fort William, Ontario. In 1915, the Fort William Daily Times Journal deemed he was the “captor of the largest speckled trout known,” claiming he had caught the largest fish of its kind in the entire world. Specifically, these two fish of his were caught in 1915 on the Nipigon River in supposedly one cast.
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The Thunder Bay Museum acknowledges the original custodians of this land and pay our respect to the elders – past, present, and future – for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture, and the hopes of Indigenous Peoples. We would also like to recognize that the Thunder Bay Museum is on the traditional land of the Fort William First Nation signatory to the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850, and to acknowledge the role of the Métis Settlement in the development of our community.
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