Curriepedia:Data sources to ingest
Status of every data source for ThunderBay.Wiki. Details, rules and notes: /Notes. Pre-1900 priority plan: /Pre-1900 plan.
| Source | Category | Status | Progress | Archive | Last updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Henderson's Directory of Fort William and Port Arthur, 1950 (notes) | Directories | Done | 479 / 479 pages | 2026-11-02 | |
| Henderson's Directory of Fort William and Port Arthur, 1920 (notes) | Directories | Done | 108 / 108 pages | 2026-11-02 | |
| Henderson's photographed books (1884, 1907 Fort William, 1907 Port Arthur, 1913–14) (notes) | Directories | Done | 175 / 175 page images | 2026-11-02 | |
| Case's Directory of Fort William, Port Arthur and District of Thunder Bay, 1894 (notes) | Directories | Done | 2,238 pages; total not counted | 2026-11-02 | |
| More Henderson's directories (Brodie library, 1884–2004) (notes) | Directories | Partial (needs photographing) | 6 / 38 editions (estimate) | 2026-11-02 | |
| Studies of Henderson's directories as history sources (notes) | Directories | N/A (reference only) | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Telephone directories, Port Arthur and Fort William (notes) | Directories | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Federal voters' lists (notes) | Directories | Not started (needs access) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Municipal voters' lists, tax and assessment rolls, building permits (notes) | Directories | Not started (needs access) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Census of Canada, 1871–1931 (notes, plan) | Vital records & censuses | Partial | 0 bulk-ingested; about 21 pages cite | 2026-11-02 | |
| Ontario births, marriages and deaths (incl. death registration index, 1869–1937) (notes) | Vital records & censuses | Partial (deaths only) | 903 pages | 2026-11-02 | |
| Probate and wealth records (Livio Di Matteo), 1885–1930 (notes) | Vital records & censuses | Done | 2,331 pages; total not checked | 2026-11-02 | |
| Parish registers (LAC microfilm) (notes) | Vital records & censuses | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Riverside Cemetery (Oliver Road, est. 1884) (notes) | Cemeteries | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Mountain View and St. Patrick's cemeteries (notes) | Cemeteries | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cemetery (notes) | Cemeteries | Not started | 0 / 1,745 Interment.net records | 2026-11-02 | |
| Rural and community cemeteries (notes) | Cemeteries | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| War graves (Commonwealth War Graves Commission) (notes) | Military | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| CEF soldiers who enlisted at Thunder Bay; CEF personnel files (WWI) (notes) | Military | Partial (enlistments done) | 944 enlistment pages; full files 0 | 2026-11-02 | |
| Canadian Virtual War Memorial (notes) | Military | Partial | 434 photographs uploaded | 2026-11-02 | |
| WWII service files of the war dead (notes) | Military | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Lake Superior Regiment and other military fonds (notes) | Military | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Lakehead Technical Institute, Lakehead College and Lakehead University yearbooks, 1951–2004 (first pass) (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Done (WikiBot) | 34 / 35 further items; 19 / 19 Nor'Wester volumes | 2026-11-02 | |
| Lakehead yearbooks 1951–1969, second pass (and lufor1982) (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | In progress (WikiBot1) | 20 / 20 volumes extracted | 2026-11-02 | |
| Lakeview High School Lion's Roar yearbooks, 1962–66 (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Done (WikiBot 2) | 5 / 5 volumes | 2026-11-02 | |
| Lakehead Teachers' College yearbooks 1964–69 and Confederation College 1986 (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Done (WikiBot 2) | 7 / 7 items | 2026-11-02 | |
| Thunder Bay high-school yearbooks held only on paper (Museum library) (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Needs human request (needs museum scan) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Fort William Collegiate Institute (Oracle yearbooks, 1927–1996) (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Port Arthur Collegiate Institute (Vox Studentium yearbooks) (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Hillcrest High School (Thunder Bay) yearbooks (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | N/A (no Thunder Bay copies found online) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Selkirk Collegiate and Vocational Institute yearbooks (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Lakehead Tech, Northwood, Lakeview, Port Arthur Tech and St. Patrick's high-school yearbooks (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Hospital nursing-school yearbooks (McKellar, Port Arthur General, St. Joseph's) (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Ancestry: Canada, Selected School Yearbooks, 1901–2010 (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started (needs verification) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Classmates.com and AlumniClass (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | N/A (low value) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| eBay, AbeBooks and Facebook (used yearbooks) (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Needs human request (Michael to decide budget) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Internet Archive and Canadiana (high schools) (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | N/A (nothing found, 2026-10-28) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Confederation College graduation books (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Unidentified shared Google Drive folder Yearbooks (about 50 PDFs, 1947–1996) (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started (needs verification) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Fort William Collegiate Institute class of 1964 website (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | N/A (nothing to ingest) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Lakehead District School Board website (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started (low value) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Yearbooks, all schools (umbrella item in Michael's notes) (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | In progress | see school rows above | 2026-10-28 | |
| Lakehead University convocation programs (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Lakehead public-school registers before 1942 (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Needs human request (FOI request not yet made) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Port Arthur and Fort William school records at the museum (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Lakehead University history theses (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Lakehead University Alumni Spotlight (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Done (WikiBot) | 87 / 87 stories | Datum Locker (all 87 stories) | 2026-11-02 |
| Lakehead University Archives: school-related files (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| The Argus (Lakehead University student newspaper) (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Other Lakehead University digital exhibits (Agora, Caret, Anishinaabemowik program documents) (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Lakehead University faculty and staff pages (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Lakehead statistics book (notes) | Schools & yearbooks | Not started | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Church history pages and anniversary books (notes) | Churches & organizations | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society Collection and Finnish Archives at Lakehead (notes) | Churches & organizations | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Finnish Labour Temple and Rosies of the North archive (notes) | Churches & organizations | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Lodge, club and society rosters (notes) | Churches & organizations | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Labour and union records (notes) | Churches & organizations | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Italian community (CIBPA Thunder Bay newsletter, Spring 1998) (notes) | Churches & organizations | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame (notes) | Churches & organizations | Done (WikiBot 3) | 354 / 354 profiles | Datum Locker (archived copies) | 2026-11-02 |
| Datasets from Samira Saramo (Finnish migration historian) (notes) | Churches & organizations | Needs human request (Michael to contact) | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Finnish migration book (Finnbook) (notes) | Churches & organizations | Not started | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Finnish American Heritage Center, vertical files (list, 2023) | Churches & organizations | Needs human request (contact FAHC archivist for access) | 65-page holdings list; includes Hoito Restaurant, Port Arthur Finns | list archived | 2026-11-03 |
| Leadership Thunder Bay class directories | Churches & organizations | Partial | Class of 2015 directory ingested (Nov 5, 2026); other years' directories not found (site blocks automated requests) | 2015 directory archived | 2026-11-05 |
| Canadian Car and Foundry (Can-Car), Fort William (notes) | Employers & business | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Great Lakes Paper Company (notes) | Employers & business | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Abitibi Power and Paper and Provincial Paper (notes) | Employers & business | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company (notes) | Employers & business | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway records (notes) | Employers & business | Not started (employee records unavailable) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| CN Pensioners, local council C13 (notes) | Employers & business | Not started | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Grain elevators (notes) | Employers & business | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Other business fonds (notes) | Employers & business | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Thunder Bay Museum archives and indexes (notes) | Employers & business | Not started | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Fire insurance plans of Fort William and Port Arthur (notes) | Municipal & property | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Council minutes, by-laws and city agendas (notes) | Municipal & property | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Land registry records (notes) | Municipal & property | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Municipal websites (Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario) (notes) | Municipal & property | In progress (WikiBotBoss; archive only) | 56 / 3,280 URLs archived (thunderbay.ca) | Datum Locker (partial); sample PDF | 2026-11-02 |
| Anishinabek News (anishinabeknews.ca) (notes) | Newspapers & obituaries | In progress (WikiBot1, frozen) | 4,064 / 6,026 extracted; 3,911 checked | Datum Locker (all 6,026 articles) | 2026-11-02 |
| Local newspaper social columns and TBPL newspaper indexes (notes) | Newspapers & obituaries | Partial (social columns done) | obituary indexes 0 | 2026-11-02 | |
| Other newspaper archives (Kenora, Atikokan) (notes) | Newspapers & obituaries | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Lawyers called to the bar (Law Society of Ontario, to 1940) (notes) | Newspapers & obituaries | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Newspaper-derived people stubs (notes) | Newspapers & obituaries | Not started | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Agentic walk of Cite tbnews references (notes) | Newspapers & obituaries | Not started (needs read flag in template) | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Obituaries (Tavily, datum.locker, Legacy.com) (notes) | Newspapers & obituaries | Done (WikiBot 3) | 1,122 pages; total unknown | Datum Locker (each page cited) | 2026-11-02 |
| Lakehead Retirees In Memoriam obituaries (notes) | Newspapers & obituaries | Done (WikiBot 3) | 27 / 27 entries | Datum Locker | 2026-10-31 |
| Funeral-home obituary archives (Everest, Sargent & Son, Blake), archival crawl (notes) | Newspapers & obituaries | In progress (WikiBot 4) | 811 / 7,046 captured | Dropbox; Datum Locker | 2026-11-02 |
| Funeral-home obituaries, wiki ingestion (Sargent & Son, Everest, Blake) (notes) | Newspapers & obituaries | In progress (WikiBot 3) | 474 / 806 captured | 2026-11-02 | |
| Tribute Archive (notes) | Newspapers & obituaries | Blocked (terms forbid crawling) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Obituary compilation model (Deseronto Archives) (notes) | Newspapers & obituaries | N/A (example only) | 2026-10-28 | ||
| TBNewswatch: "Meet the candidates: Wolfgang Schoor" | Newspapers & obituaries | Queued | 2026-11-05 | ||
| Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History (notes) | Community & online | Partial (partly browsed) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Thunder Bay Museum virtual exhibits and historical figures (notes) | Community & online | Partial (7 historical figures done) | 7 / 7 people (historical figures) | Datum Locker (museum pages) | 2026-11-02 |
| Facebook Thunder Bay Memories and r/ThunderBay (notes) | Community & online | In progress (Facebook seed tool exists) | Thunder Bay Memories trial: 5 posts ingested (Nov 5, 2026) | 2026-11-05 | |
| Old message boards and forums (notes) | Community & online | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Personal site on Thunder Bay history (my.tbaytel.net/lwmayes) (notes) | Community & online | Not started (did not respond 2026-10-28) | 2026-10-28 | ||
| CKPR-TV history (broadcasting-history.ca) (notes) | Community & online | Not started (did not respond 2026-10-28) | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Thunder Bay musicians site (notes) | Community & online | Not started | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Farmers in Oliver Paipoonge (July 2025 newsletter) (notes) | Community & online | Blocked (link dead) | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Family-history sites (McInnes, PHPGedView) (notes) | Community & online | Not started (content unknown) | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Hymers Fair 2023 programme (notes) | Community & online | Not started | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Murder data (OCPC report; Flaherty) (notes) | Community & online | Not started | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Clipping: Morton and Adcock; Charlie Bliss (notes) | Community & online | Not started | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Friends of Grain Elevators, Voices of the Grain Trade oral histories (notes) | Community & online | Not started (permission requested 2026-10-30) | 0 / about 200 interviews | 2026-11-02 | |
| Thunder Bay Mystery and History (Facebook group) | Community & online | Trial: 10 posts ingested (Nov 5, 2026) | 10 posts; 456 comments parsed | PDFs, photos and clean comment pages on datum.locker (ledger kept by WikiBot 3) | 2026-11-05 |
| Wolfgang Schoor (personal website) | Community & online | Queued | 2026-11-05 | ||
| Facebook group post about Wolfgang Schoor | Community & online | Queued | 2026-11-05 | ||
| Fur-trade posts: NWC and HBC at Fort William (notes, plan) | Indigenous & fur trade | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Robinson-Superior treaty annuity paylists (RG10) (notes, plan) | Indigenous & fur trade | Not started | 0 / about 3,000 page images | 2026-11-02 | |
| Métis genealogical databases (notes, plan) | Indigenous & fur trade | Not started | 0 / 65,434 Morin records | 2026-11-02 | |
| Jesuit mission records (notes, plan) | Indigenous & fur trade | Needs human request (contact diocesan archivist) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Joan Holmes and Associates native lists; TBPL Indigenous genealogy guides (notes, plan) | Indigenous & fur trade | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Métis Nation of Ontario records (plan) | Indigenous & fur trade | Needs human request (contact MNO registry) | 2026-11-02 | ||
| NWC engagés' contracts (Voyageur Contracts Database) (plan) | Pre-1900 (mixed) | Not started | 0 / about 36,000 contracts | 2026-11-02 | |
| NWC account books (plan) | Pre-1900 (mixed) | Not started | 0 / about 3,790 index lines | 2026-11-02 | |
| NWC partners' minutes and letterbooks (LAC MG19-B1) (plan) | Pre-1900 (mixed) | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Selkirk Papers, 1816–17 inventories and depositions (LAC) (plan) | Pre-1900 (mixed) | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| HBC Fort William post journals and district reports (plan) | Pre-1900 (mixed) | Partial (extracts only) | 0 journal years transcribed | 2026-11-02 | |
| HBCA servants' contracts; Biographical Sheets (plan) | Pre-1900 (mixed) | Partial | 31 HBC, 66 fur-trade, 24 NWC pages | 2026-11-02 | |
| Other pre-1900 people sources (plan) | Pre-1900 (mixed) | Partial | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Papers and Records (Thunder Bay Historical Society), 1908–1927 (notes) | Publications | Partial | 3 volumes done | 2026-11-02 | |
| Papers 1908–09 (Thunder Bay Historical Society) (notes) | Publications | Not started | 0 / 38 images | 2026-10-31 | |
| Papers 1911–12 (Thunder Bay Historical Society) (notes) | Publications | Not started | 0 / 58 images | 2026-10-31 | |
| Annual Report: Papers 1912–15 (Thunder Bay Historical Society) (notes) | Publications | Not started | 0 / 132 images | 2026-10-31 | |
| Annual Report: Papers 1917–24 (Thunder Bay Historical Society) (notes) | Publications | Not started | 0 / 252 images | 2026-10-31 | |
| Papers bound set 1908–1921 (Thunder Bay Historical Society) (notes) | Publications | Not started | 0 / 416 images | 2026-10-31 | |
| Papers and Reports, localhistory_2j and 2K scans (notes) | Publications | Not started | 2026-10-31 | ||
| Papers to 1967 and vols. III, V, XXV (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society) (notes) | Publications | Done (WikiBot) | 4 / 4 volumes | Datum Locker | 2026-11-02 |
| Thunder Bay BandWiki (notes) | Publications | Done | about 2,600 pages; 727 files | 2026-11-02 | |
| Old mining book Algoma West: its mines, scenery and industrial resources (Walpole Roland) (notes) | Publications | Not started | 2026-10-28 | ||
| Rise Up! Feminist Digital Archive (Northern Woman Journal and other Thunder Bay items; 1973 Northern Women's Centre newsletter PDF) | Publications | Not started | Search page lists 631 results for Thunder bay (521 periodical issues, 84 documents, others); 1973 PDF is 41 pages with a rough OCR text layer | 1973 PDF archived (source), search results archived | 2026-11-03 |
| Bayview Magazine (Thunder Bay quarterly, 2002–present; entire run, website and back issues) | Publications | Queued: website scrape starts Nov 12, 2026 | 2026-11-05 | ||
| The Walleye (Thunder Bay arts and culture monthly, 2010–present; entire run) | Publications | Queued | 2026-11-05 | ||
| Thunder Bay Business (monthly, 1984–present) | Publications | Queued | 2026-11-05 | ||
| Northern Ontario Business (regional business publication; Thunder Bay coverage) | Publications | Queued | 2026-11-05 | ||
| Northern Wilds (monthly, 2004–present; North Shore and Thunder Bay) | Publications | Queued | 2026-11-05 | ||
| Superior Outdoors (Thunder Bay outdoor magazine, from 2007; site now offline) | Publications | Queued | 2026-11-05 | ||
| Journey (Lakehead University alumni magazine, 2005–present) | Publications | Queued | 2026-11-05 | ||
| Thunder Bay Magazine (1980s; issues 1983–1985 indexed in the Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History) | Publications | Queued | 2026-11-05 | ||
| Thunder Bay Life (community magazine) | Publications | Queued | 2026-11-05 | ||
| Lake Superior Magazine (Duluth, Minnesota; bimonthly since 1979; Thunder Bay and region content only) | Publications | Queued | 2026-11-05 | ||
| FamilySearch API and tree (notes) | Tools & wiki QC | Not started | 2026-11-02 | ||
| Sitewide Living-gate sweep and family-link check (wiki QC, not a source) (notes) | Tools & wiki QC | In progress (WikiBot) | 2,858 / 3,082 removals | 2026-11-02 | |
| Canada History Knowledge Graph (GitHub) (notes) | Tools & wiki QC | Not started | 2026-10-28 |