Thunder Bay

Thunder Bay is a city in, and the seat of, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is the most crowded district in Northwestern Ontario with a populace of 107,909 as of the Canada 2016 Census, and the second most crowded in Northern Ontario after Greater Sudbury. Situated on Lake Superior, the statistics metropolitan territory of Thunder Bay has a populace of 121,621, and comprises of the city of Thunder Bay, the districts of Oliver Paipoonge and Neebing, the townships of Shuniah, Conmee, O'Connor, and Gillies, and the Fort William First Nation.

European settlement in the district started in the late seventeenth century with a French hide exchanging station on the banks of the Kaministiquia River. It developed into an imperative transportation center point with its port shaping a vital connection in the delivery of grain and different items from western Canada, through the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway, toward the east drift. Ranger service and assembling assumed critical jobs in the city's economy. They have declined lately, however have been supplanted by a "learning economy" in view of restorative research and training. Thunder Bay is the site of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute.