This moose is the Canada Game Complex Mascot from 1981. The Canada Games Complex was constructed in 1981 to host the aquatic events of the 1981 Canada Summer Games in Thunder Bay, Ontario. It is Thunder Bay’s primary fitness facility, and it features swimming pools, indoor fitness areas, a fitness testing area, and an indoor … Read more
Traincar carrying the 65th Rifles of Montreal as it passes through Port Arthur to the N.W.T., April 9 1885
With the opening of the Michigan State Canal in 1855, thousands of westernized people migrated into the grand Lake Superior watershed. They came from the eastern states, Upper and Lower Canada, and Europe, all of them seeking new lives and opportunities in mid-continent. In the early days access into the cold, aqueous heart of North … Read more
Personnel of the 9th Field Squadron Royal Canadian Engineers clearing railway in Hochwald, Germany, March 2 1945
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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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