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Welcome to ThunderBay.wiki, an interconnected historical graph of people, places, and things in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
Articles are generated using human Lakeheadologists and also automatically, using AI agents who consume data on the web and from many other sources.
We have documented 196,112 of an estimated 244,000 people who have lived in Thunder Bay since 7500 BCE — about 80.374%. View all Thunder Bay people View latest birthdays
Featured article: J.J. Carrick
John James "J.J." Carrick was an American-Canadian real estate promoter, politician, and stockbroker in Port Arthur. He promoted Mariday Park, named for his wife Mary Jane (Day) Carrick, and owned one of the newspapers that became the Chronicle-Journal.
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ThunderBay.wiki is a free online encyclopedia of people, places, and things in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Built on MediaWiki, the same software that powers Wikipedia, it offers sourced, narrative biographies of deceased residents in the familiar Wikipedia style: dockworkers and dance teachers, miners and mayors, homemakers and homesteaders — not just the mayors, but everyone the record allows us to recover.
The long-term goal:
- a complete, fully interlinked record of every deceased person who lived in the Thunder Bay area, citing every available primary and secondary source.
- each biography cross-referenced to its FamilySearch Person ID (PID), anchoring Thunder Bay's residents in the global shared family tree, and structured as machine-readable data so genealogists, historians, and researchers can search, browse, and build upon it freely.
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ThunderBay.wiki was initiated and is sponsored by Michael B. Currie. It is an independent project, not affiliated with or endorsed by any government, institution, or organization. Content is drawn from public records and authorized publications; copyrighted source material is referenced and cited. If you have any questions or comments, please email mcurrie at g mail dot com.
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Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal.
— Ernest Hemingway