Thunder Bay, Canada Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The Great Lakes' port of THUNDER BAY is much closer to Winnipeg than to any other city in Ontario, and its population of 117,000 is prone to see themselves as Westerners. Economics as well as geography define this self-image, for this was until recently a booming grain-handling port, and the grain, of course, is harvested in the Prairies. The grain still arrives here by rail to be stored in gigantic grain elevators and then shipped down the St Lawrence Seaway to the Atlantic, but not in the same quantities as before. In the 1990s, the economics of the grain trade changed in favour of Canada's Pacific ports and … more »