Category:Thunder Bay people

Biographical articles about people from Thunder Bay, Ontario, including its predecessor cities of Fort William and Port Arthur.

There are approximately 244,000 people from Thunder Bay since the first humans arrived in 7500 BCE until 2026; non-natives first arrived when coureur des bois Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut arrived in 1679.

We have documented 195,896 of an estimated 244,000 people who have lived in Thunder Bay since 7500 BCE — about 80.285%.

Ethnogenesis By the late seventeenth century, the population of the Lake Superior north shore study region, with virtually no exceptions, was Ojibway Indian. Europeans first came into contact with Ojibway Indians residing in the Lake Superior north shore study region during the first part of the 17th century. Following the 1760 conquest of New France, British fur traders began to extend their operations into the western Great Lakes region below the “height of the land”. Toward the end of the century the two dominant companies in the region were the Montreal headquartered NWC and the HBC, which amalgamated in 1821.

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