2008-2009 Telephone Directory Cover

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  1. Fort William city exchange, 214 S. Vickers Street. Built in 1948. Front Exterior.
  2. Roman Catholic Church, Port Arthur. Corner or Arthur and Algoma. 1881. It was the second Roman Catholic Church to be built in this location.
  3. Mink Mountain
  4. This photo was taken on the occasion of the opening of the Port Arthur Electric Street Railway (which linked Port Arthur and Fort William) on Tuesday, March 1, 1892. It’s at the corner of Park and Cumberland Streets and shows the Bodega Hotel on the northeast corner which was later occupied by the Bank of Montreal.
  5. Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society on May Street
  6. Boy in toy car at Kaministiquia Station ca. 1940-1945.
  7. Graham Lake
  8. War display at the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1990-91.
  9. Postcard of the Avenue Hotel, Fort William (located where the Odeon, Victoria is today).
  10. TBayTel Employee
  11. Lake Superior
  12. Thunder Bay Harbour - Photo by Walter Zarowski
  13. Kyocera M1000 Cell Phone
  14. Clocks display at the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1990.
  15. Thunder Bay Marina
  16. Wawa Goose
  17. Old Phone
  18. Chaban Ukranian Dancer
  19. Taken in 1939 during the Dominion Sky Championships, of the ski jumps at the Fort William Ski Club near Mount McKay.
  20. Polar bear display at the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2007-08.
  21. Front view of a Public Utilities Building built at 50 Court Street in 1909. Originally a registry office, this building remains in use today.
  22. Camping
  23. Landline User
  24. Map of Lake Superior with mileage chart.
  25. Gammondale Farm Sleigh Ride
  26. Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society
  27. Railway trestle bridge over the Nipigon River ca. 1880s.
  28. Kenora Sunset - Photo by Rob Crandall
  29. Partial view of the Nesco Island machine shop showing three men operating machines.
  30. Canoe Trip at White Otter Lake
  31. Old Phone
  32. One of a series of black and white high contrast photos taken by George Lucas of country scenes in the area. Date unknown.
  33. From the 2008 Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Main Gallery display Anishnabeg: Middlemen in the Fur Trade 1650-1870.
  34. Lake Superior Kayaks - Photo by Walter Zarowski
  35. Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
  36. Kenora Sunset - Photo by Rob Crandall
  37. Beautiful Garden near Vickers Park
  38. Black and white infra-red photo of the Port Arthur waterfront (with the Sleeping Giant in the background) taken by D. Smith and presented to Carson F. Piper January 4, 1937. The photo appears to be taken from Hillcrest Park.
  39. Thunder Bay Airport
  40. The installation or replacement of a microwave tower dish on the tower at Fort William Telephone Exchange, November 9, 1962.
  41. Dress display at the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1979-80.
  42. Telephone Exchange terminals.
  43. A team of horses pulling a sled loaded with logs, 1924. Minatree, Abitibi.
  44. Bottle from the Fort William Bottling Works ca 1930’s.
  45. Best Western Lakeside Inn & Conference Centre in Kenora - Photo by Rob Crandall
  46. Camping at Quetico
  47. Fibre Optic Technology
  48. The Whalen Building (Public Works) in Prince Arthur Hotel Gardens. Construction was completed around January 1914 and cost over $500,000 to build.
  49. Brown Street and MacKay’s mountain, town plot (Westfort), 1885. Buildings include: A.A. Clarke Drug Store, Ontario Hotel, Dr. Hamilton Office & Sugery, Woodbine Hotel, Ruttledge Brothers Merchants, and a livery stable.
  50. BlackBerry User
  51. Golf in Thunder Bay
  52. Telephone
  53. Cascade River, Minnesota
  54. Canada Games Complex
  55. TBayTel Employee
  56. Dresses display at the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2005-06.
  57. Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre
  58. Part of a series of photos (date unknown) of public utilities equipment and workers.
  59. The opening of the new Shuniah Telephone Exchange, May 31, 1969. There are 6 men in the photo, four unidentified, but Saul Laskin and Mickey Hennessy were present.
  60. Windmill
  61. Old Portable Phone
  62. Royal Edward Hotel in the early 1930’s.
  63. Kaministiquia River facing Mount MacKay from Fort William, railway tracks on the right side of the river.
  64. Glorious Blooms near Vickers Park
  65. Telephone Operator
  66. Camping at Quetico
  67. Cree Indian Beadwork featured in a Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society display, 1987.
  68. Nor-Westers - Photo by Walter Zarowski
  69. Laptop
  70. Lumber mill on the Mattawan River, Sunshine, Ontario.
  71. Silver Islet - Photo by Walter Zarowski
  72. First Nations Pow Wow
  73. Opening of telephone exchange. People are gathering at the food table. Date and people are unknown.
  74. Port Arthur Collegiate Institute
  75. Canoe Trip at White Otter Lake
  76. TBayTel Communications Tower
  77. Mt. MacKay - Photo by Walter Zarowski
  78. Bird’s eye view of Fort William.
  79. Mariday Park area in Port Arthur. Hillcrest Park in the foreground, High Street behind it.
  80. From the current Main Gallery streetscape display. This photo shows what a local street might have looked like ca. 1918-1939.
  81. Old Television
  82. Photo from the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Display, Tired Iron, 2008.
  83. Camping on White Otter Lake
  84. Newspaper display at the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2006.
  85. From a collection of portraits of the Gibbon Family taken over 100 years ago. Newspapers on the paperboy’s bicycle handlebars are in a Carnation Milkbox. Fall or spring ca. 1925-1935.
  86. Kayaking in Kenora - Photo by Rob Crandall
  87. Bundled up for Winter in Northern Ontario
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