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 Fort William, Ontario -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fort William was a city in (additional info and facts about Northern Ontario) Northern Ontario, located on the (additional info and facts about Kaministiquia River) Kaministiquia River, at its entrance to (The largest freshwater lake in the world; the deepest of the Great Lakes) Lake Superior.
Two townships (Neebing and Paipoonge) and the Fort William Town Plot were surveyed in 1859-60 by the (additional info and facts about Province of Canada) Province of Canada's Department of Crown Lands and opened to settlement.
Once the Fort William Town Plot (later known as West Fort) was selected as the eastern terminus for the (additional info and facts about Canadian Pacific Railway) Canadian Pacific Railway, and construction of the railway began in June 1875, Fort William began to grow, but very slowly.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fo/fort_william,_ontario.htm   (794 words)

  
 FORT WILLIAM - LoveToKnow Article on FORT WILLIAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The fort, at first called Kilmallie, was built by General Monk in 1655 to hold the Cameron men in subjection, and was enlarged in 2690 by General Hugh Mackay, who renamed it after William III., the burgh then being known as Maryburgh in honor of his queen.
The fort was dismantled in 1860, and demolished in 1890 to provide room for the railway and the station.
Fort William is a popular tourist resort and place of call for the steamers passing through the Caledonian canal.
www.87.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FO/FORT_WILLIAM.htm   (528 words)

  
 Thunder Bay, Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The city was formed in 1970 by the merger of the smaller cities of Fort William and Port Arthur.
Fort William, originally the French Fort Caministogoyan, was the hub of the North West Company's fur trading business in the early 19th century.
Thunder Bay's main tourist attraction is Fort William Historical Park, built in 1973 as a reconstruction of the Fort William fur trade post.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/thunder_bay__ontario   (346 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Fort William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fort William, Scotland, a town in the Scottish Highlands.
Fort William, Ontario, a city which became part of Thunder Bay, Ontario in 1970.
Fort William, India, a fort in the Indian city of Calcutta.
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 Port Arthur, Ontario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Landingites dominated Shuniah to the furor of the few residents of Fort William, Ontario until the people of Fort William successfully established their own Municipality of Neebing in 1881, and began a long and successful battle with Port Arthur to secure all the operations of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
The silver mining boom of the 1880's came to an end with the passage by the U.S. Congress of the McKinley tariff in October 1890.
The town was in dire economic straits until 1897-99 when the entrepreneurs William Mackenzie and Donald Mann acquired the Ontario and Rainy River Railway and the Port Arthur, Duluth and Western Railway, and chose Port Arthur as the Lake Superior headquarters for the Canadian Northern Railway.
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 Mezzanotte - Wiesee - Bauder - Forsell - pafg71 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Malcolm COCHRAN was born on 21 Aug 1885 in Toronto, Ontario.
Anne Boswell COCHRAN was born on 13 Dec 1920 in Fort William, Ontario.
Thomas Sidney JONES was born on 14 Feb 1912 in Fort William, Ontario.
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 Thunder Bay, Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The city was formed in 1970 by the merger of the cities of Fort William, Ontario, Port Arthur, Ontario and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre.
Another settlement developed a few miles to the north of Fort William with the construction by the federal Department of Public Works of a road connecting Lake Superior with the Red River Colony under the direction of Simon James Dawson.
The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway began construction of its facilties at the Fort William Mission in 1905, and the federal government began construction of the National Transcontinental Railway.
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 Ontario Query Board
I was born in Hawkesbury, Ontario in Oct of 1968.
As far as I am aware the brothers were William, John, and the sister was Hellenor Nellie, she later married a James Smith and lived in St Catherines, both possibly died 1970s.
His wifes Grand mother was from Southern Ontario and moved with her husband to the Darmody area in 1909 and homesteaded there until her passing Dec/29/1914.
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 ipedia.com: Fort William Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fort William is the largest town in the western Scottish Highlands, and a major tourist centre.
However, the town grew up as a settlement next to a fort constructed to control the population following Oliver Cromwell's invasion during the English Civil War, and then to suppress the Jacobite uprisings of the 18th century.
Fort William was also a city in the Canadian province of Ontario, which was merged with the nearby city of Port Arthur to form the new city of Thunder Bay.
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 Fort William Rotary Club - Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
AJOY CHATTERJEE is the Assistant Governor District 5580, Area 12 for the past three years and the incoming President of the Rotary Club of Thunder Bay (Fort William).
He is the Secretary/Treasurer of the Allocation Committee and has been a member of the club for 10 years.
In 1993 he was transferred to the Thunder Bay operation as Superintendent, Environmental Affairs.
www.fwrotary.ca   (151 words)

  
 SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Fort William
A fish-processing factory run by the Dutch-owned salmon farming multinational Marine Harvest in Fort William was accused by Sepa of unlicensed releases to the environment resulting in a report to the procurator fiscal...
Laskin was born in Fort William on Oct. 5, 1912, to Russian immigrants whose priority was a good education for their sons and who helped pay for it by renting out their home.
Fort William Coastguard evacuated six elderly residents from 4ft flood waters in their housing complex in Oban, while Oban Coastguard rescued a man who was floating away inside his camper van.
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 Diocese of Thunder Bay - History of Diocese Book
The construction of a Roman Catholic Church in Fort William coincided with the incorporation of the town in 1892.
After a motion that the Roman Catholics assembled wished to form a Separate School Board for Fort William was passed, two trustees from each of the four wards in the city were nominated and elected.
The Fort William Separate School Board, St. Stanislaus School, St. Patrick’s Cemetery and the Sisters of St. Joseph Convent on Myles Street all found their origins with this parish.
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 Railway Rolling Stock Industry in Canada
His son, William Mortimer Hamilton continued in control of the original enterprise, which by now was incorporated as the St. Lawrence Foundry Co. of Toronto, and was still operating at its old address, 206 Front Street East.
The Ontario Car Company did not survive into the electric railway era, but it did produce horse cars, if we are to judge from the fact that one of these is pictured on the letterhead of the company, a copy of which is in the possession of the writer.
William Corbin was in partnership with George Wales as Wales & Corbin, carriage builders at 10 Court Street, St. Catharines.
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In 1826 he went to Fort St James in the New Caledonia district with Chief factor William Connolly, and in 1828 married his part-Indian daughter Amelia.
Fort William Ontario- Thomas Douglas, Lord Selkirk 1771-1820 captures Fort William with private army of discharged veterans; arrests William McGillivray and Norwesters for Seven Oaks Massacre, and sends them to trial in Montreal.
Fort Erie Ontario- Lieutenant General Gordon Drummond 1771-1854 defeated by Americans in costly counter-attack on Fort Erie; British have 900 casualties.
www1.sympatico.ca /news/otd/otd.98.08.15.html   (1691 words)

  
 Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Descendants of James Lambie
He was born April 09, 1950 in Fort William, Ontario, Canada.
He was born September 14, 1939 in Bancroft, Ontario.
She was born July 25, 1953 in Killaloe, Ontario.
familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/r/a/t/Maureen-Joyce-Rathje/GENE2-0005.html   (266 words)

  
 Penticton Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Born in Fort William, Ontario June 18, 1942 to parents Raymond and Doris Tronsen.
She was a member of the Eastern Star Chapter of Thunder Bay, Ontario and currently of the Castlegar Senior's Centre.
Diane was predeceased by her father Raymond in 1953, her late husband William Wells in 1994, her step father Arnold Almos in 1999 and her mother Doris in 2000.
www.pentictonherald.ca /archive/2005/06/14/stories/2689_full.php4?latest_date=2005/06/14   (1832 words)

  
 Fort William --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Between 1696 and 1702 the first fort was built in Calcutta, with the nawab of Bengal's permission.
The original fort was built in 1654 to keep the peace in the Highlands; it was later ruined and in 1690 rebuilt and named for the British monarch William III.
On March 4, 1841, General William Henry Harrison rode briskly down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., to be inaugurated ninth president of the United States.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077064   (839 words)

  
 Information about Canada FDC: 32¢ Canada Day, Fort William, Ontario   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Many of these were located along the seacoast, rivers and lakes so that the trappers and traders could use the waterways to transport their wares.
One such trading center was Fort William, located at Thunder Bay, an inlet on Lake Superior.
Fort William soon became the inland headquarters of the North West Company and served as a major trading depot for trading expeditions into the West.
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 THIRD GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He was married to Pheobe SHEAR on 21 May 1884 in Claremont, Pickering Twp., Ontario Co., Ontario, Canada.
William Earl DOWSWELL was born on 12 Feb 1889.
She died in 1968 in Fort William,, Ontario, Canada.
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 The Joseph A. Caulder - Crawford C. McCullough
He was born in Gananoque, Ontario, was graduated from Queen's University at Kingston, and took post-graduate work at New York, Boston, London, Paris, Freiburg, Vienna and Berlin.
Club of Fort William, which was organized in 1916, and is a Past President of that Club.
He has served as Alderman of the City of Fort William, President of the Fort William Chamber of Commerce, and as President of the Northwestern Ontario Associated Chambers of Commerce.
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 Abitibi-Consolidated - Forest: Fort William (Certification)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Abitibi-Consolidated Company of Canada, Fort William Woodlands is proud to announce that the Spruce River Forest, near Thunder Bay, Ontario has been certified under the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) standard CAN/CSA Z809-02.
In order to meet the requirements of the standard, Fort William Woodlands worked with the public to identify local values, goals, indicators and objectives that reflected the national criteria and then incorporated them into the SFM plan and practices.
Our Fort William Woodlands Environmental and Sustainable Forest Management Policy, Background Information Package and the Terms of Reference for the development of the SFM Plan are provided below.
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 AllRefer.com - Fort Niagara, Ontario, Canada - (fort) - Facts and Information
Fort Niagara, post on the S shore of L. Ontario, at the mouth of the Niagara R., NW N.Y.; 43°16'N 79°08'W. It was strategically located on the water route to the fur lands.
The British held the fort until 1796, when it was turned over to the U.S. by Jay's Treaty.
During the War of 1812, the British captured Fort Niagara but returned it in 1815.
reference.allrefer.com /gazetteer/F/F02451-fort-niagara.html   (216 words)

  
 Keeping Our Commitment: Fostering Economic Development in First Nations - Fort William First Nation, Ontario - August ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Fort William First Nation, like other First Nations, is a growing and dynamic community; its people are forward thinking, eager to create the kind of opportunities that improve social development and economic growth for their community and the region.
I am pleased to announce that the federal government will contribute more than $200,000 to support two Fort William First Nation economic development initiatives as well as to support the establishment of one Aboriginal business and the expansion of another.
Third, the Government of Canada, through a contribution from my department's Resource Access Negotiations program, will enable Fort William First Nation to carry out strategic planning and consensus building within the community as a first step toward attracting and developing business opportunities in sectors such as forestry and energy.
www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /nr/spch/2004/koc_e.html   (914 words)

  
 The Responsive Marketing Group, A better telemarketing company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Known as the "City by the Bay", Thunder Bay, Ontario is situated at the crossroads of East/West Canadian Markets and at the Northernmost point of the North/South conduit for North American Business.
It's the tenth largest city in Ontario and the 24th largest in Canada with a population of 122,000 people.
Thunder Bay was incorporated in 1970 after an amalgamation of Port Arthur, Ontario and Fort William, Ontario.
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 July 1937
Stanislav, J.F. Simon, William Waddell and S.P. Gurney.
WILLIAM G. Funeral services for William Garvin Coats, 81, who died at his home in Bellmead Saturday at 9 a.m., were held from Bellmead Baptist Church at 4 p.m.
Deal and Misses Ila and Linnie Matheny of Waco; three sons, William of Waco, Walter of Waco, and Chester of Big Spring; a brother, Dock Matheny of Brownwood; a sister, Mrs.
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 Calling hours are today 4 to 8 p.m. at Farrah Funeral Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Kattar was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada, and at the age of 10 moved to Lebanon, where she remained until she moved to Detroit at the age of 21.
Kattar came to Lawrence in 1932 and was a graduate of Sheppard Gill Practical Nursing School in Boston.
Kattar was sister of the late George and William Faris and sister-in-law of Peter P. Kattar of Andover.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20041203/FN_002.htm   (242 words)

  
 Globeinvestor.com: Abitibi-Consolidated first registered under CSA Sustainable Forest Management Standard in Ontario, ...
The Quality Management Institute (QMI) conducted Abitibi- Consolidated's third party audits on the Fort William, Québec-West and Newfoundland Woodlands Divisions and recommended that each division's environmental management system be registered under the CSA SFM Standard.
The Company's Québec-West and Newfoundland Woodlands Divisions have also been recommended by auditors for certification under the SFM standard of the CSA, and the process of issuing the registration certificates for these divisions is currently under way.
The Fort William, Québec-West and Newfoundland certifications will add 4.2 million hectares to the existing 1.6 million hectares of Abitibi-Consolidated forests already registered under the CSA standard, for a total of 5.8 million hectares.
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 The Aird Commission Revisited   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Harry J. Hanwell, president of the Port Arthur (Ontario) Radio Club and a member of the Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce, wrote: ``As under present conditions, we have to practically rely on reception from American stations, and are, so to sepak [sic], the broken link in the Canadian transcontinental chain'' (NAC, 1929a, Vol.
Harry J. Hanwell, president of the Port Arthur (Ontario) Radio Club and a member of the Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce, expressed his concern that state control of radio would mean private stations ``would be compelled to receive Government programs'' (NAC, 1929a, Vol.
While the files contain the oral and written submissions from the hearings held in Ontario eastward, most of the submissions from western Canada -- the first half of the commission's tour -- are missing.
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 David Baldacci Joe Fiorito Nino Ricci Luigi Monteferrante Italian north American writers poets authors press ...
A letter carrier, a small-town trombonist, an occasional crooner, and a heavy drinker, Dusty was both the keeper and maker of his Italian family's many stories.
Rich and compelling, The Closer We Are to Dying is Joe Fiorito's brilliant tribute to a complicated man and an affecting testament to the power of family ties.
As a young man in Northern Ontario, Fiorito worked in a paper mill, surveyed roads, and laboured in bush camps.
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