Thunder Bay, City of

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  • In January 1970, the city of Thunder Bay was formed with the amalgamation of the townships of Neebing and McIntyre, and the cities of Port Arthur and Fort William.

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      Municipal Elections 2018 Web Collection
      Collection · 2018

      Web material related to the 2018 municipal elections in municipalities across Northwestern Ontario.

      Sites crawled include those of municipalities, candidates, news sources, and third party groups making endorsements or recommendations.

      Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö fonds
      Fonds · 1911 - 1981

      Records of the Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö [Finnish Organization of Canada], Vapaus Publishing Company (responsible for publishing Vapaus and Liekki and other publications), Suomalais-Canadalaisen Amatoori Urheiluliiton [Finnish-Canadian Amateur Sports Federation], co-operatives, and more.

      Includes meeting minutes, reports, financial statements, and correspondence related to the operations and administration of these organizations. Also includes a variety of document and pamphlets related to socialism, communism, and the peace movement in Canada and worldwide.

      The Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö (CSJ; Finnish Organization of Canada) is the oldest nationwide Finnish cultural organization in Canada. For over a century the CSJ has been one of the main organizations for Finnish immigrants in Canada with left-wing sympathies and, in particular, those with close ties to the Communist Party of Canada. Through the early to mid 1920s, Finnish-Canadians furnished over half the membership of the Communist Party and some, like A.T. Hill (born Armas Topias Mäkinen), became leading figures in the Party. Beyond support for leftist political causes, the cooperative and labour union movements, many local CSJ branches in both rural and urban centres established halls – some 70 of which were built over the years in communities across Canada – that hosted a range of social and cultural activities including dances, theatre, athletics, music, and lectures. The CSJ is also known for its publishing activities, notably the Vapaus (Liberty) newspaper.

      The CSJ underwent several changes in its formative years related to both national and international developments. Founded in October 1911 as the Canadan Suomalainen Sosialisti Järjestö (CSSJ; Finnish Socialist Organization of Canada), the organization served as the Finnish-language affiliate of the Canadian Socialist Federation which soon after transformed into the Social Democratic Party of Canada (SDP). By 1914, the CSSJ had grown to 64 local branches and boasted a majority of the SDP membership with over 3,000 members. One year later the organization added two more local branches but membership had dropped to 1,867 members thanks, in part, to a more restrictive atmosphere due to Canada’s involvement in the First World War and an organizational split that saw the expulsion or resignation of supporters of the Industrial Workers of the World from the CSSJ.

      In September 1918, the Canadian federal government passed Order-in-Council PC 2381 and PC 2384 which listed Finnish, along with Russian and Ukrainian, as ”enemy languages” and outlawed the CSSJ along with thirteen other organizations. The CSSJ successfully appealed the ban in December 1918 but dropped ”Socialist” from its name. The organization operated under the name Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö until December 1919. The SDP, however, did not recover from the outlawing of its foreign-language sections, leaving the CSJ without a political home. Stepping into this organizational vacuum was the One Big Union of Canada (OBU), founded in June 1919. The CSJ briefly threw its support behind this new labour union initiative, functioning as an independent ”propaganda organization of the OBU” until internal debates surrounding the structure of the Lumber Workers Industrial Union affiliate and the OBU decision not to join to the Moscow-headquartered Comintern led to its withdrawal shortly thereafter. In 1924, CSSJ activists including A.T. Hill helped to found the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada (LWIUC).

      Inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution that toppled the Tsarist Russian Empire in November 1917, and following the founding of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) as an underground organization in May 1921, the CSSJ rapidly became an integral part of the nascent Communist movement in Canada. Reflecting this change, in 1922 the organization was renamed the Canadan Työläispuolueen Suomalainen Sosialistilärjestö (FS/WPC; Finnish Socialist Section of the Workers’ Party of Canada) – the Workers’ Party of Canada being the legal front organization of the CPC. In 1923, Finnish-Canadian Communists formed a separate cultural organization, the Canadan Suomalainen Järjestö (CSJ; Finnish Organization of Canada Inc.), to serve as a kind of ”holding company” ensuring that the organization’s considerable properties and assets would be safe from confiscation by the government or capture from rival left-wing groups. With the legalization of the CPC in 1924, the FS/WPC became the Canadan Kommunistipuolueen Suomalainen Järjestö (FS/CP; Finnish section of the Communist Party of Canada). Between 1922 and 1925, membership in the CSJ through its various transitions also doubled as membership in the Communist Party. This arrangement ended in 1925 when the FS/CP was disbanded following the ”bolshevization” directives of the Comintern. These directives demanded that separate ethnic organizations in North America be dissolved in favour of more disciplined and centralized party cells. It was hoped that this reorganization would help attract new members outside of the various Finnish, Ukrainian, and Jewish ethnic enclaves that had furnished the bulk of the CPC dues paying membership in Canada. From this point onwards, the CSJ officially functioned as a cultural organization but maintained a close, albeit sometimes strained, association with the CPC. The 1930s represent the peak of the CSJ size and influence, occuring during the Third Period and Popular Front eras of the international Communist movement. During this period CSJ union organizers assisted in the creation of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union – a unit of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of the American Federation of Labor, successor to the LWIUC – and the reemergence of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers in Sudbury and Kirkland Lake. CSJ activists also helped to recruit volunteers for the International Brigades that fought against nationalist and fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Finally, in the 1930s some 3,000 CSJ members or sympathizers embarked on the journey from Canada to the Soviet Union to help in the efforts to industrialize the Karelian Autonomous Soviet. Hundreds of Finns in Karelia would later perish in Stalin’s purges.

      Despite the CSJ’s active support for the Canadian war effort, the organization was still deemed to be a threat to national security by the federal government and again outlawed in 1940. All FOC properties were seized and closed. The Suomalais Canadalaisten Demokraattien Liitto (SCDL; Finnish-Canadian Democratic League) served as the FOC’s main legal surrogate until the organization was legalized in 1943. The rapid decline of the FOC following this period is apparent from the fact that of the 75 locals in operation in 1936, only 36 remained active in 1950.

      Further reading:
      Edward W. Laine (edited by Auvo Kostianen), A Century of Strife: The Finnish Organization of Canada, 1901-2001 (Turku: Migration Institute of Finland), 2016.
      Arja Pilli, The Finnish-Language Press in Canada, 1901-1939: A Study of Ethnic Journalism (Turku: Institute of Migration), 1982.
      William Eklund, Builders of Canada: History of the Finnish Organization of Canada, 1911-1971 (Toronto: Finnish Organization of Canada), 1987.

      Finnpraxis Project
      CA ON00086 B · Série organique
      Fait partie de Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society collection

      Collected records related to organized labour and the Finnish community in Thunder Bay. Include records related to the Canadan Suomalaisen Jarjesto (Finnish Organization of Canada), Vapaus Publishing Company, Canadan Farmarien Yhteysliitto (Farmers' Unity League of Canada), Lumber & Agricultural Workers Industrial Union of Canada.

      Also includes forms and notes related to oral history interviews.

      Photographs
      CA ON00086 D · Série organique
      Fait partie de Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society collection

      Photographs are divided into seven subseries:
      A - Architecture
      B - Arts (Theatre, music, dance, arts, crafts)
      C - Business & industry
      D - Churches
      E - Communities in Northwestern Ontario
      F - People, families, & genealogy
      G - Organizations

      Dr Walter Momot fonds
      Fonds · 1950-2005

      Records relate to water quality and fish research in Northwestern Ontario.

      In 1986, the International Joint Commission’s Remedial Action Plan for the Great Lakes designated four Canadian areas of concern (AOC) in Lake Superior. The following areas were identified to have water quality impairments, Thunder Bay, Nipigon Bay, Jackfish Bay, and Peninsula Harbour (Marathon, Ontario). Pulp and Paper mills were identified as a major source of pollution. In Thunder Bay, the inventory and assessment projects were initiated as Stage 1 and completed by 1991. Stage 2, remedial strategies, completed in 2004. General issues: unpleasant foam, oily residue, and odour in waterways, high levels of chemicals in sediment and fish, loss of fish and wildlife habitat, impacts to sediment-dwelling organisms, and impacts on fish populations. Specific fish habitat concerns were water quality degradation, loss of wetland, degradation or loss of spawning substrate, and habitat destruction by dredging. Important fish population problems have occurred over time due to fish habitat loss from both physical and chemical changes on Lake Superior and its tributaries.
      Many government agencies were involved with Lake Superior remedial action plans including the Ministry of the Environment (MOE), Department of Fisheries Oceans (DFO), Ministry of Natural Resources, and the Lakehead Conservation Authority. Lakehead University was tasked with portions of the fish and fish habitat inventory in Stage 1 and providing an external review of the stage 2 plans for remedial action. Lakehead University sought Dr. Walter Momot, Professor of Ichthyology with this responsibility.

      This collection is divided into three series involving the International Joint commissions Remedial Action Plans of the Canadian Portion of Lake Superior.
      1) Kaministiquia River Project
      a. Kaministiquia River External Reports
      2) Northwestern Ontario Fish Inventory Collection
      3) Remedial Action Plan Reviews

      Further Reading;
      • Cullis, Ken I., et al. Fish Community and Aquatic Habitat of the Kaministiquia River, 1987. Ontario, Ministry of Natural Resources, 1987.
      • Cullis, Ken I., et al. Fish Community and Aquatic Habitat of the Kaministiquia River, 1987. [Thunder Bay Remedial Action Plan], 1990.
      • Dean, J. F., et al. Geofisheries: A New Concept for Determining Fish Habitat Suitability as Applied to Brook Trout (Salvelinus Fontinalis). Lakehead University. Dept of Biology, 1991.
      • Hartviksen, Connie and Momot, Walter T. Fishes of the Thunder Bay Area of Ontario a Guide for Identifying and Locating the Local Fish Fauna. Thunder Bay Salmon Association. 1987.
      • Hartviksen, Connie, and Walter T. Momot. Fishes of the Thunder Bay Area of Ontario: A Guide for Identifying and Locating the Local Fish Fauna. Wildwood Press, 1989.
      • Momot, Walter T. Review and Recommendations Concerning Delisting Criteria and Beneficial Use Impairments for the Four North Coast of Lake Superior Areas of Concern. Dept. of Biology, Lakehead University, 2005.
      • Momot, Walter T., and S. A. Stephenson. Threespine, Gasterosteus Aculeatus, and Fourspine, Apeltes Auadracus, Sticklebacks in the Lake Superior Basin. 2000.
      • Momot, Walter T., and Sam A. Stephenson. Isostatic Rebound and Its Effects on Fish Colonization and Distribution in the Western Lake Superior Basin. National Research Council., 1993.
      • Momot, Walter T., et al. Reproductive Guilds of Percids : Results of the Paleogeographical History of Ecological Succession. s.n.], 1977?
      • Momot, Walter T., and Sam A. Stephenson. Atlas of the Distribution of Fish within the Canadian Tributaries of Western Lake Superior. Lakehead Centre for Northern Studies, 1996.
      • Picard, Christopher Robert, et al. Effectiveness of Using Summer Thermal Indices to Classify and Protect Brook Trout Streams in Northern Ontario?
      • Stephenson, Sam A. The distribution of fishes in the Thunder Bay area of northwestern Ontario since deglaciation, with special reference to the darters (Genus Etheostoma) and the Sibley Peninsula. Thesis (M.Sc.)--Lakehead University. 1991
      • Stephenson, Sam A., and Walter T. Momot. Sibley Fishes. Lakehead Centre for Northern Studies, 1994.
      • Stephenson, Sam A. Food Habits and Growth of Walleye (Stizostedion Vitreum), Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus Dolomieui) and Northern Pike (Esox Lucius) in the Kaministiquia River, Thunder Bay, Ontario. s.n.], 1989.
      • "FOR THE RECORD SALMON THREATENED." Globe & Mail [Toronto, Canada], 20 Feb. 1989, p. A12. Canada In Context, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A164803910/CIC?u=ko_acd_con&sid=CIC&xid=329c59cd. Accessed 24 May 2019.

      Sans titre
      Fonds · 1913 - 1955

      The collection consists of architectural plans and drawings for construction projects (primarily grain elevators) in Ontario and Manitoba.

      Marshall Dean family fonds
      Fonds · 1868 - 2000

      Marshall Blanchard Dean was an early physician in Fort William; his son Marshall Macdougall Dean had a career with the Canadian Coast Guard and a lifelong interest in history and genealogy. Collection includes correspondence, photographs, and research materials.

      Construction Drawings
      CA ON00372 384 · Série organique · 1948, 1969-1992
      Fait partie de City of Thunder Bay fonds

      This series includes contract drawings and some textual material relating to the construction of buildings, structures, sewers, roads and watermains.

      The records have been organized by project and date and also include some miscellaneous items which have been identified.

      TBayTel General Ledger
      CA ON00372 402 · Série organique · 1992-1998
      Fait partie de City of Thunder Bay fonds

      These records were scheduled as TS156 General Ledger. They were maintained in the Finance & Administration Division of TBayTel and then transferred to the City of Thunder Bay records centre for inactive storage as per their retention schedule. In 1999, this series was superceded by SAP.

      The purpose of these records is to serve as a listing of all account balances. The fiche indicate the account location number code, account description, source code, posting date and the amount.

      Environmental Site Assessment Records
      CA ON00372 409 · Série organique · 1993-1998
      Fait partie de City of Thunder Bay fonds

      This series includes original completed Environmental Site Assessments and Audits which have been prepared for properties in which the Corporation has some interest (e.g. properties to be sold for back taxes, city-owned lands being considered for sale and lands being investigated for purchase).

      In 2002, the position of Environmental Auditor, the creator of these records, was moved to the Realty Services Division from the Transportation and Works Environment Division.

      Council Resolutions
      CA ON00372 410 · Série organique · 1984-2001
      Fait partie de City of Thunder Bay fonds

      Under the Municipal Act (2001), City Council votes on the passing of new by-laws and the amendment of existing by-laws in Council meetings, based on recommendations and advice from the Office of the City Clerk. Council also delegates statutory responsibilities to subcommittees, and through Committee of the Whole Meetings, Council discusses critical issues covering the broad mandate of the City. It is through Council Meetings that decisions are made and resolutions are achieved on the matters discussed in Committee of the Whole Meetings. Resolutions serve as a record of the motions carried and lost by City Council through Council Meetings.

      Mayors presiding over Council in the time reflected in this series include Walter Assef (1973-1978 and 1981-1985). The Office of the City Clerk is responsible for maintaining the records of proceedings for Council.

      Series consists of duplicate meeting minutes of City Council and attached resolutions for each meeting. Each resolution is signed by the councilors responsible for moving and seconding the resolution. It is also signed by the Mayor or Chairman of the council meeting and the City Clerk.

      Each file contains an index in the front explaining which meetings and dates are included in each individual file.

      CA ON00372 431 · Série organique · 1986-1995
      Fait partie de City of Thunder Bay fonds

      Quality Management / Quality Assurance programs are run in a coordinated fashion in all operating Homes. Some files relate only to a particular location while some deal with policy across all.

      Most notably, the Quality Management program and program revisions are being preserved. The program details the mandate for the Homes for the Aged, and subsequently, the standards for specific sections (Administration, Dietary Services, Housekeeping, Laundry, Nursing, Maintenance, Recreational, Pastoral). Similarly, a number of sectional Quality Assurance handbooks are being preserved.

      Additionally, there are minutes, agendas, and reports that reflect the committee work being conducted to maintain quality in the homes (e.g. Medical Advisory Committee or the Health and Safety Committee), and a number of focus group activities produced completed surveys and questionnaires that show tenants’ satisfaction with the services provided at Thunder Bay’s Homes for the Aged.

      Facilities and Equipment Division Files
      CA ON00372 433 · Série organique · 1975-1999
      Fait partie de City of Thunder Bay fonds

      Administrative files of the Facilities and Equipment division of Transportation and Works. Facilities and Equipment becomes Facilities and Fleet Department.

      Series consists of supervisor's meeting minutes, committee minutes, organization charts, correspondence, health and safety records, and a number of Y2K compliance reviews. Additionally, the series contains SMT/DMT meeting minutes. Although the records are not necessarily indicative of the operation of the Facilities & Equipment Division, they are informative of the City's managerial decisions and ongoing initiatives.

      Sister Cities Advisory Committee Files
      CA ON00372 444 · Série organique · 2000
      Fait partie de City of Thunder Bay fonds

      The Sister Cities Advisory Committee's mandate is to develop, implement and coordinate the Thunder Bay Municipal Twinning Program. The program aims to promote cross-cultural understanding, municipal and technical cooperation and economic development opportunities. Officially formed in December 2006, the Committee reports to City Council through the Office of the City Clerk.

      Series consists of photographs and related documentation regarding the Sister Cities Millennium Festival, held in the summer of 2000, and a photographic inventory of artifacts donated by Thunder Bay's Sister Cities. Also included in this series are gifts donated by delegates of the cities who participated in the Sister Cities program.

      Thunder Bay Police Orders
      CA ON00372 449 · Série organique · 1970-1986
      Fait partie de City of Thunder Bay fonds

      The records consist of both Routine and Standing Orders given by the Chief of Police. Routine orders cover a variety of subjects including appointments, transfers, training, promotions, procedures, resignations and postings. Standing Orders cover policies, procedures and directives.

      CA ON00372 8 · Série organique · 1921-1965
      Fait partie de City of Fort William fonds

      Series consists of five volumes of Committee Minutes and one Index booklet.

      The first volume (TBA4262-01) contains minutes for a number of Council Committees. At the inaugural meeting dated Jan. 10, 1921, the Nominating Committee appointed members to several committees, including Finance, Utilities, Works, Fire, Water & Light, License & Relief, Property & Market, Claims, Health, Swimming Pool, Band and Industrial and Entertainment. Minutes for some of the aforementioned committees are recorded in this volume. Other committee minutes included are the Joint Meetings of City Council, Council of the Board of Trade and the Executive of the Trades & Labor Party, the Efficiency Committee, the Special Committee regarding the Grand Trunk Pacific Agreement, the Special Committee regarding Hydro, Cemetery Investment, Special Committee re Plumbing, Special Committee re Conditions at the Abbatoir, Great Lakes Paper, C.P.R re Building of a Hotel and the Loch Lomond Watershed Committee. In 1930, the Industrial Commission was formed. This Committee was composed of members from the Industrial Committee, the Joint Board of Trade and the Trades and Labour Council. Their minutes are also included in this volume. Minutes end on May 4, 1933.

      The second volume (TBA4262-02) contains minutes of the Civic Industrial Board. Pursuant to a resolution of council, this Board was elected by ballot. At the first meeting held on February 1,1950, the main objectives of this board were outlined. They were to explore the possibilities of bringing industry to the City, to assist in local industrial concerns and to explore and study existing industrial sites for perspective firms. Minutes end on October 22, 1954.

      The third volume contains minutes of the Land Development Committee, commencing with the third meeting dated March 4, 1954. This committee dealt with a number of items, including housing projects, school sites, property purchases, subdivisions and zoning changes. Committee members' names were recorded at the beginning of each year. In 1958, it appears the City Land Development Committee changed its name to the Development & Industrial Committee.

      Volumes 4 (TBA4262-04) and 5 (TBA4262-05) continue to contain minutes of the abovenoted Committee. In 1962, the Committee's name changed to the Industrial & Promotion Committee. The last meeting date is January 21, 1965.

      The final item (TBA4262-06) is an alphabetical index to the Minutes of the Industrial & Promotion Committee for 1962 to 1965.

      Assessment Rolls
      CA ON00372 40 · Série organique · 1970-2010
      Fait partie de City of Thunder Bay fonds

      The Office of the City Clerk reports to the City Manager and is responsible for maintaining all
      legislative and administrative requirements necessary for the effective functioning of the City.
      The primary responsibilities of the Office of the City Clerk include managing the registration
      of vital statistics information, preparing agendas for City Council and providing advice to
      Council regarding the policies and operations followed by the City. Another major
      responsibility of the Office of the City Clerk is to oversee the assessment of property tax.
      Assessment Rolls are compiled each year by the Municipal Property Assessment Corporation
      (MPAC), the provincial government body responsible for the assessment of property value for
      properties in all municipalities across Ontario. The City Clerk directs the certification and
      amendment of Assessment Rolls prepared by MPAC each year within the City of Thunder
      Bay. The information recorded in the Assessment Rolls is used by the City to calculate
      municipal property taxes.

      Series consists of Assessments Rolls covering residential, commercial and government owned
      properties. Assessment Rolls include the following information: parcel number, name and
      mailing address, religion, location and description of the property being assessed, school zone
      including school support, tax class, total valuation, exempt distribution and taxable
      distribution. Earlier Assessment Rolls from this series may include additional information
      such as; marital status, occupation and year of birth. Recent Assessment Rolls also specify
      whether or not there were any changes in property ownership for the years that the Assessment
      Roll covers.

      The Assessment Rolls are arranged by ward and subdivision. Assessment Rolls produced
      between 1970 and 1979, are divided into wards for Fort William, Port Arthur, McIntyre
      (Shuniah) and Neebing. Later Assessment Rolls, from 1980 onward, are divided into seven
      different wards; McIntyre, Neebing, Current River, Northwood, McKellar, Red River and
      Westfort.

      Assessment Rolls can also be navigated by municipal address and name for the years 1976 –

      1. See Related Series: Series 41: Street Indexes to Assessment Rolls; and Series 42: Name
        Indexes to Assessment Rolls.

      Also included in this series are Supplementary Assessment Rolls and Total Current Value
      Rolls. Supplementary Assessment Rolls detail changes in ownership and provide information
      on proportionate assessments for new property owners. Total Current Value Rolls include
      statistical information on the total assessed values for properties which have been divided into
      the following categories; residential (includes English and French separate school and public
      school), commercial, office building, industrial, exempt, parking lot and multi-residential.

      Administrative Reports
      CA ON00372 219 · Série organique · 1970-1999
      Fait partie de City of Thunder Bay fonds

      Series consists of reports prepared by various departments of The City of Thunder Bay relating to assessments of current practices and systems and recommendations for improvement which are brought forward to Council for consideration. Reports cover a range of topics and issues including contracts, agreements, by-laws, property acquisition and the sale of property, city infrastructure and development, transportation, parking, services and programs, civic organization, council and committee structure and the development and maintenance of parks and recreation facilities in The City of Thunder Bay. Reports feature attached resolutions detailing council’s recommendations in relation to the issues raised in each report.

      Administrative Reports are maintained by the Office of the City Clerk. The Office of the City Clerk oversees all departments of the municipal government and the operations of City Council. The main responsibilities held by the Office of the City Clerk include: presenting proposed by-laws to Council; preparing agendas for Council and providing secretarial services for Council and Committees of Council.

      Mountain View Cemetery Burial Permits
      CA ON00372 240 · Série organique · 1940, 1967-1992
      Fait partie de City of Thunder Bay fonds

      This series mainly consists of Mountain View Cemetery and some St. Patrick's Cemetery Burial Permits. There are also Burial Permits and Acknowledgment of Registration of Death, Burial-Removal-Transit Permits, Burial-Transit Permits, Certificates of Cremation, Certificates of Death, Certificates of Registration of Death, Disposition-Removal Permits, Permits for Disposition of Human Remains from other provinces and countries.

      Most of the records are issued between 1967 and 1996. Only one was issued in 1940.

      Community Recreation Manager's Files
      CA ON00372 261 · Série organique · 1970-1998
      Fait partie de City of Thunder Bay fonds

      This series includes records relating to planning and management of city parks, recreation program and facilities, policies, studies, correspondence and memoranda, as well as minutes of committee upon which the community recreation manager served, such as the Joint Health and Safety Committee.