Curriepedia:Data sources to ingest/Notes

Details moved here on 2026-11-02 from Curriepedia:Data sources to ingest, which is now a status table only. Text is kept essentially as it was, organised by source. The pre-1900 write-up is on Curriepedia:Data sources to ingest/Pre-1900 plan.

About the old page

This is a project page, not an article. It lists sources of information about people, places and organizations in Thunder Bay, Fort William and Port Arthur that have not yet been fully ingested, so that the wiki can eventually hold a named page for every person who has lived in the area. Last reviewed 28 October 2026.

Progress snapshot, 2 Nov 2026 (historical)

This is the snapshot text as it stood on the old page at about 18:30 Bangkok time on 2 Nov 2026. Its row counts refer to the old tables; the status table on the main page is the current record.

Progress snapshot, 2 Nov 2026 (about 18:30 Bangkok time, Asia/Bangkok). Counts below come from the WikiBots' working files and live category totals read on this date. Where the full size of a source is unknown, the row says so instead of guessing, and any figure called an estimate gives its basis. Of the 95 rows in the Already ingested and Sources still to ingest tables, 19 are done (the 14 ingested rows plus 5 finished sources), 11 are partly done, 56 are not started and 9 are not applicable or need checking; the 51-item brainstorm table adds 3 done, 1 pilot, 1 partly done and 41 not started (many overlap the rows above). Rows are not equal in size, so this is not a percentage of the work. Overall rough figure (estimate): about 15–20% of the accessible record by volume. Basis: the directory, yearbook and Indigenous-news work that is finished is large (about 89,000 person entries parsed from the directories and yearbooks), but the biggest unstarted sources (censuses, vital records, cemeteries, newspapers) are each of the same order or larger. Main figures: Anishinabek News 4,064 of 6,026 articles extracted (67%); Henderson's 6 of about 38 known editions (about 15%, estimate); Lakehead yearbooks second pass 20 of 20 volumes; living-gate sweep 2,858 of 3,082 planned removals (92%); funeral-home capture ongoing (811 captured); censuses 0. The ongoing funeral-home capture is simply marked ongoing. See the new pre-1900 priority section.

Purpose

ThunderBay.wiki is building a cross-referenced record of everyone who has lived in the Thunder Bay region (see How ThunderBay.Wiki Works). Each new source adds either new people (new pages) or new facts about people already here (enrichment). Over time the share of new records that simply land on an existing person should rise. That is the sign that the record is closing up.

This page is the work queue. It lists:

what has already been ingested (so nobody repeats it);
sources still to ingest, grouped by type, with where to get them, what period they cover, and what is known to be in them;
ideas from Michael's own "data to ingest" notes, broken out into individual entries and cross-referenced to the researched sources.

Rules that apply to every source

Living persons. Any source that can name a living person (recent directories, voters' lists, current faculty and staff, graduates of the last ~100 years, recent obituaries, social media) must go through the Category:Living persons gate before anything is public, and living people who are in Thunder Bay are also tagged Category:Thunder Bay people. See the ThunderBay.wiki Privacy Policy. This is a PIPEDA matter. In the tables below the Privacy column says "GATE" where this applies.
Copyright. Facts are extracted and written in our own words. Text of copyrighted obituaries, books and newspaper articles is not copied.
Entity resolution. Merge a new record into an existing person only when the match is near-certain. Otherwise create a separate page and list the pair as an uncertain duplicate.
Cite the source. Every ingested fact carries a citation to the specific volume, page or record.

Notes carried over from the old section headings

Already ingested (old section intro)

For page counts, listing counts and ingestion status of each Henderson's volume, see Henderson's Directories.

Sources still to ingest: column key (old section intro)

Column key: Privacy = GATE means the source can name living people and needs the Living persons gate; "Public" means the people named are almost certainly deceased. Status values: ☐ Not started · ◐ In progress / partial · ✔ Done · ? Needs access.

How a source is marked done (old section)

When a source has been fully ingested, change its Status cell to ✔ with the date and a link to the category or batch of pages it created, and add it to the "Already ingested" table. For each source, record: the page count created, the number of listings that matched an existing person, and any uncertain pairs. Superseded: the main page is now one status table. To mark a source done, change that source's row in place (Status, Progress, Last updated) and put the details under its heading on this page.

City directories, voters' lists and telephone books

Henderson's Directory 1950

Original row (Already ingested table)

Source: Henderson's Directory of Fort William and Port Arthur, 1950
Coverage: 1950
Status: ✔ Done (Oct 2026); retrofit to the {{Directory listing}} table format done (29 Oct 2026); ads pass done (30 Oct 2026)
Notes: Pages created or updated under Category:Henderson's Directory 1950; statistics in Henderson's Directories
Progress (2 Nov 2026): all 479 PDF pages read (100%); 34,219 person and 2,083 business entries parsed; 32,126 person pages created and 923 updated (36,947 pages in the category).

Henderson's Directory 1920

Original row (Already ingested table)

Source: Henderson's Directory of Fort William and Port Arthur, 1920
Coverage: 1920
Status: ✔ Done (Oct 2026); retrofit to the {{Directory listing}} table format done (29 Oct 2026); ads pass done (30 Oct 2026)
Notes: Category:Henderson's Directory 1920
Progress (2 Nov 2026): all 108 PDF pages read (100%); 15,968 person and 1,368 business entries parsed; 15,395 person pages created and 174 updated (17,135 pages in the category).

Henderson's photographed books, 1884–1914

Original row (Already ingested table)

Source: Henderson's photographed books (four PDFs made from Michael's photographs: 1884 North-West Guide, 1907 Fort William, 1907 Port Arthur, 1913–14 Twin Cities)
Coverage: 1884–1914
Status: ✔ Photo books done (cleanup done 29 Oct 2026); ads pass done 30 Oct 2026 for all six books (1884, 1907 FW, 1907 PA, 1913–14, 1920, 1950): 1,581 distinct ads (4,169 printings) transcribed onto 1,092 business pages (241 created, 851 updated), 67 pictorial ads uploaded as images; see Category:Henderson's Directory advertisements. All four books applied (11,970 person, 785 business and 96 late-husband stub pages created; Category:Henderson's Directory 1884, Category:Henderson's Directory 1907, Category:Henderson's Directory 1913); cleanup: 506 same-person duplicate pages merged into redirects and 238 disambiguation pages folded into redirects, 100 widows linked to their late husbands, about 4,170 people linked to households. Counts per book in Henderson's Directories. Updated 30 Oct 2026, 00:30 Asia/Bangkok.
Notes: Photographed by Michael; Gemini OCR of page images
Progress (2 Nov 2026): all 175 photographed page images read (100%); 13,150 person entries parsed (1884: 1,499; 1907 Fort William: 4,340; 1907 Port Arthur: 4,488; 1913: 2,823). Category pages: 1884 1,692; 1907 9,212; 1913 3,082.

Case's Directory 1894

Original row (Already ingested table)

Source: Case's Directory of Fort William, Port Arthur and District of Thunder Bay
Coverage: 1894
Status: ✔ Done
Notes: Category:Case's Directory 1894; original on Canadiana^[1]
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 2,238 pages in the category. The number of entries in the whole 1894 directory was not counted, so no percent is given.

More Henderson's directories (Brodie library)

Original row ("City directories, voters' lists and telephone books" table)

Source: More Henderson's directories at the Brodie library
What it contains: City directories for Fort William / Port Arthur / Thunder Bay. The library says its Henderson Directories span 1884–2004 and are for in-branch use only^[2]. The Thunder Bay Museum library also holds Henderson's twin cities Fort William and Port Arthur directory No. 6 (1913) to No. 38 (1963), Fort William 1910 and 1911, "Henderson's lakehead city directory" and Thunder Bay directories from 1970^[3]
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Public Library (Brodie); Thunder Bay Museum library; a 1963 edition is also listed in the FamilySearch Library^[4]
Period: 1884–2004
Privacy: Pre-1950 public; later years GATE
Status: ◐ 1884–1914 photo books done, cleanup done 29 Oct 2026; ads pass starting; 1920 and 1950 done; ☐ the rest. Needs someone to photograph pages (see Michael's note on paying someone to do this)
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 6 volumes ingested (1884, 1907 Fort William, 1907 Port Arthur, 1913, 1920, 1950). At least 32 further editions are known (the Museum lists Nos. 7–38, 1913–1963, minus the 1920 and 1950 volumes done, plus Fort William 1910 and 1911, plus 1970 on), so about 6 of 38 (15%, estimate).

Original row (brainstorm table, item 44)

#: 44
Michael's idea: More Henderson's years, to be photographed at the library (possibly by a paid helper)
Link (from the notes): —
Overlaps with: Directories
Status: ☐

Studies of Henderson's directories as history sources

Original row (brainstorm table, item 32)

#: 32
Michael's idea: Historical studies of Henderson's directories as history sources (two articles)
Link (from the notes): article 1, article 2 (publisher blocks automated access)
Overlaps with: Directories
Status: Reference

Telephone directories, Port Arthur and Fort William

Original row ("City directories, voters' lists and telephone books" table)

Source: Telephone directories, Port Arthur and Fort William
What it contains: Subscriber lists. LAC holds a series "Telephone – Port Arthur and Fort William", 1904–1911^[5]. The Archives of Ontario holds telephone books and directories 1879–1988^[6]
Where to get it: LAC (in person or copies); Archives of Ontario; TBPL
Period: 1904–1980s
Privacy: Pre-1950 public; later GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Federal voters' lists

Original row ("City directories, voters' lists and telephone books" table)

Source: Federal voters' lists
What it contains: Preliminary lists of electors for federal elections by riding and polling division, with name, address and occupation^[7]. Indexed on Ancestry as "Canada, Voters Lists, 1935–1980" (subscription)^[8]
Where to get it: LAC finding aid 113-1; Archives of Ontario (microfilm 1935–1980); Ancestry (the Brodie library offers Ancestry Library Edition in-branch)
Period: 1935–1988
Privacy: GATE (most voters after 1960 may be living)
Status: ?
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Municipal voters' lists, tax and assessment rolls

Original row ("City directories, voters' lists and telephone books" table)

Source: Municipal voters' lists and tax rolls
What it contains: Municipal lists of electors, assessment and collector's rolls, by-laws. The City Archives says its holdings include "some assessment rolls, collector's rolls, tax records, by-laws and building permits from before 1970"^[9]
Where to get it: City of Thunder Bay Archives (Harry Kirk Archives and Records Centre)
Period: 1880s–1970
Privacy: Pre-1950 public
Status: ?
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Original row ("Maps, property, municipal records and institutional websites" table)

Source: Assessment rolls and building permits
What it contains: Property owner, occupant, value, and building permits to 1970 (see "Municipal voters' lists and tax rolls" above). The Archives of Ontario also holds assessment records by municipality^[10]
Where to get it: City Archives; Archives of Ontario
Period: 1880s–1970
Privacy: Pre-1950 public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Vital records and censuses

Census of Canada, 1871–1931

Original row (Already ingested table)

Source: Census of Canada 1881 (IPUMS), 1901 and 1911 (AutomatedGenealogy transcriptions)
Coverage: 1881, 1901, 1911
Status: ◐ Partial
Notes: Listed in the Sources table at How ThunderBay.Wiki Works
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 bulk-ingested (0%). About 21 wiki pages cite one of these returns. See the pre-1900 section for the 1881 town populations (about 1,965 people). See also the pre-1900 priority section.

Original row ("Vital records and censuses" table)

Source: Census of Canada 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921, 1931
What it contains: Whole households: names, ages, birthplace, religion, origin, occupation. LAC holds returns up to 1931; the 1921 and 1931 returns are searchable at LAC^[11]. Ancestry hosts the 1891 and 1921 indexes (subscription)^[12]. 1901 and 1911 are already partly ingested from AutomatedGenealogy
Where to get it: LAC Census search; FamilySearch; Ancestry; AutomatedGenealogy (1901, 1911)
Period: 1891–1931
Privacy: Public (92-year rule)
Status: ◐ 1881, 1901, 1911 partial; ☐ 1891, 1921, 1931
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 of 5 returns bulk-ingested (0%); about 21 wiki pages cite one. Persons: total unknown (the town populations were about 4,900 in 1891; see pre-1900 section). See also the pre-1900 priority section.
Pre-1900 plan row: see the Source table on the Pre-1900 plan page (full row text kept there).

Ontario births, marriages and deaths

Original row ("Vital records and censuses" table)

Source: Ontario births, marriages and deaths
What it contains: FamilySearch holds the Archives of Ontario microfilm: births to 1912, marriages to 1927, deaths to 1937^[13]. The marriage index has about 1.38 million records^[14]. Parents' names and maiden names make these the strongest evidence for confirming duplicates
Where to get it: FamilySearch deaths 1869–1937; FamilySearch marriages 1869–1927; Archives of Ontario; the City Archives holds Fort William vital statistics 1908–1969^[15]
Period: 1869–1937
Privacy: Public (deaths) / births after about 1925 GATE
Status: ◐ deaths partial; ☐ births, marriages
Progress (2 Nov 2026): deaths: 903 pages so far; births 0; marriages 0. The marriage index has about 1.38 million records (see the row), the deaths index is province-wide, so the share for Thunder Bay is not known.

Original row (Already ingested table)

Source: Ontario death registration index
Coverage: 1869–1937
Status: ◐ Partial
Notes: Category:Ontario death registration index
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 903 pages in the category. The index covers the whole province, so its total is far larger and this is not a coverage figure.

Probate and wealth records (Livio Di Matteo)

Original row (Already ingested table)

Source: Probate and wealth records (Livio Di Matteo)
Coverage: 1885–1930
Status: ✔ Done
Notes: Canadian Regional Historical Wealth Micro-Data Collection; Category:People from probate records
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 2,331 pages in the category. The size of the whole 1885–1930 collection was not checked, so no percent.

Parish registers (LAC microfilm)

Original row ("Vital records and censuses" table)

Source: Parish registers (LAC microfilm)
What it contains: Baptisms, marriages, burials for St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, Port Arthur, 1872–1926, and St. Ansgarius Lutheran Church, 1906–1912^[16]
Where to get it: LAC microfilm M-2820, M-2821
Period: 1872–1926
Privacy: Public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

FamilySearch API and tree

Original row ("Vital records and censuses" table)

Source: FamilySearch API and tree
What it contains: Michael's idea: use the FamilySearch API to check and link entities^[17]
Where to get it: FamilySearch developer portal (needs a developer key)
Period: —
Privacy: GATE for living
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 23)

#: 23
Michael's idea: FamilySearch API to resolve and check entities
Link (from the notes): developers
Overlaps with: FamilySearch
Status: ☐

Original row (brainstorm table, item 37)

#: 37
Michael's idea: Connect everything to FamilySearch to count how many entities resolve
Link (from the notes): FamilySearch
Overlaps with: Same as 23
Status: ☐

Cemeteries and burial records

Riverside Cemetery

Original row ("Cemeteries and burial records" table)

Source: Riverside Cemetery (Oliver Road, established 1884)
What it contains: Burials, plots, headstone photos. BillionGraves has headstone images^[18]; Interment.net has a partial transcription^[19]; the Thunder Bay OGS branch holds a full Riverside Co-Op Cemetery burial index^[20]
Where to get it: BillionGraves; Interment.net; Find a Grave; Rootsweb Riverside page
Period: 1884–present
Privacy: Public (older graves); recent graves GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Mountain View and St. Patrick's cemeteries

Original row ("Cemeteries and burial records" table)

Source: Mountain View and St. Patrick's municipal cemeteries
What it contains: The City of Thunder Bay manages burial records "dating back to 1904 (Mountain View)" through the Cemetery office, 807-625-3014^[21]. BillionGraves has Mountain View / St. Patrick^[22]. Michael's note points to a Rootsweb transcription with exact death dates and tombstone details
Where to get it: City Cemetery office; BillionGraves; Find a Grave; Rootsweb Mountain View pages; OGS
Period: 1904–present
Privacy: Recent GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 1)

#: 1
Michael's idea: Cemetery transcription for exact death dates, years and tombstones, with GPS coordinates
Link (from the notes): Mountain View, all cemeteries
Overlaps with: Cemeteries
Status: ☐

St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cemetery

Original row ("Cemeteries and burial records" table)

Source: St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cemetery
What it contains: Records are held by the Diocese. The Thunder Bay Museum has a St. Andrew's Cemetery fonds, 1878–1940^[23]. Interment.net lists 1,745 contributed records^[24]
Where to get it: Diocese of Thunder Bay – St. Andrew's Cemetery office; Thunder Bay Museum; Interment.net
Period: 1878–present
Privacy: Recent GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 of 1,745 contributed Interment.net records (0%).

Rural and community cemeteries

Original row ("Cemeteries and burial records" table)

Source: Rural and community cemeteries (Kivikoski, Intola, Lappe Lutheran, Hymers, O'Connor, Fort William Burying Ground, Shaary Shomyim and others)
What it contains: The OGS branch catalogue lists dozens of transcriptions, plus the district-wide Thunder Bay District Burial Index^[20]. Find a Grave lists more cemeteries around Riverside Heights, such as Dog River, Fort William First Nations, Intola, Kivikoski and Lappe^[25]
Where to get it: OGS Thunder Bay branch library (at Brodie); Find a Grave; Rootsweb cemeteries index
Period: 1880s–present
Privacy: Recent GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

War graves (CWGC)

Original row ("Cemeteries and burial records" table)

Source: War graves
What it contains: Commonwealth War Graves Commission records for Thunder Bay (Riverside), Mountain View and St. Andrew's cemeteries^[26]
Where to get it: CWGC
Period: 1914–1947
Privacy: Public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Military

CEF soldiers and personnel files (WWI)

Original row (Already ingested table)

Source: CEF soldiers who enlisted at Thunder Bay; Canadian Virtual War Memorial pages
Coverage: 1914–1918
Status: ✔ Done (enlistment) / ◐ partial
Notes: Category:Soldiers who enlisted at Thunder Bay
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 944 pages in the category. The total number of Thunder Bay enlistments was not found, so no percent.

Original row ("Military" table)

Source: CEF personnel files (WWI)
What it contains: About 622,000 service files for soldiers, nurses and chaplains, with attestation papers giving birth date, next of kin and address^[27]
Where to get it: LAC "Personnel Records of the First World War" database (free)
Period: 1914–1918
Privacy: Public
Status: ◐ enlistments done; ☐ full files
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 944 enlistment pages done; full files 0 of about 622,000 CEF files nationally (0%; the Thunder Bay share is unknown).

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Original row ("Military" table)

Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial
What it contains: Registry of Canadians who died in service, with digitized grave and memorial photographs^[28]
Where to get it: Veterans Affairs Canada
Period: 1850s–present
Privacy: Public
Status: ◐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 434 grave and memorial photographs uploaded; the total of Thunder Bay entries is unknown.

WWII service files of the war dead

Original row ("Military" table)

Source: WWII service files of the war dead
What it contains: More than 44,000 individuals documented in "Service Files of the Second World War – War Dead, 1939–1947"^[29]
Where to get it: LAC database
Period: 1939–1947
Privacy: Public (war dead only)
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Lake Superior Regiment and other military fonds

Original row ("Military" table)

Source: Lake Superior Regiment and other military fonds
What it contains: Regimental records 1914–1961, CEF 1915–1917, Canadian Army 1935–1954^[30]
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum archives; Thunder Bay Military Museum
Period: 1914–1961
Privacy: Pre-1950 public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Schools: yearbooks, convocation programs and school records

Yearbooks pair a name with a photograph, a year, a school, clubs, a nickname and often a home neighbourhood, and they link a young person to a family household. They are also the largest source of living people on this page. Graduates of the last roughly 100 years are mostly alive, so yearbook ingestion is GATE for everything after the 1920s.

Lakehead yearbooks 1951–2004, first pass

Original row ("Where to find Thunder Bay yearbooks" table)

School / institution: Lakehead Technical Institute, Lakehead College, Lakehead University
What is known to exist: The Internet Archive's lakeheaduniversity collection has 54 items, including the Nor'Wester yearbooks 1951–1969 (Lakehead Technical Institute, then Lakehead College), the 1961 Teachers' College Giant '61, forestry, geology and residence yearbooks and Library Technology class books through 2004; full text is searchable^[31]. Lakehead's alumni office lists the same digitized yearbooks, 1951 to 2004^[32], and the Archives & Digital Collections site has a yearbooks exhibit^[33]
Where to get it: Internet Archive; Lakehead alumni page; Lakehead digital collections
Period: 1951–2004
Privacy: GATE for students from the 1957 volume on (earlier students were born before 1940); staff from 1961 on
Status: ☑ Done (WikiBot, Oct 30 2026). The Nor'Wester volumes 1951–1969 are done, and a full-extraction pass covered the other 35 archive items (the 1961 Giant '61, Library Technology, Engineering, forestry, geology and residence yearbooks, 1961–2004): 34 of them are done, adding 11,603 people (8,514 new pages, 3,089 added to existing pages), 2,046 portraits, 1,331 club and group pages (1,105 new), 1,027 write-ups, 645 ads and 643 businesses (323 new) and 36 papers, with 9,388 initials-only names kept on rosters. Skipped: the 1982 forestry yearbook (lufor1982), because of a page extraction error
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 34 of 35 further archive items done (97%), on top of the 19 Nor'Wester volumes 1951–1969 (100%). Second pass: see the Lakehead 2nd-pass row (20 of 20 volumes extracted and merged).

Lakehead yearbooks 1951–1969, second pass

Original row ("Where to find Thunder Bay yearbooks" table)

School / institution: To-do (WikiBot): Lakehead yearbooks 1951–1969, second pass
What is known to exist: Lakehead yearbooks 1951–1969, second pass: add people named in group-photo captions (about 3,400 names already extracted in vol/lu*/ext/*.json, so no new vision calls are needed for those), class, graduation, faculty and staff lists, team and club rosters, executives and councils, award winners, plus each person's activities and offices, and summaries of the write-ups and stories; also clubs and teams as articles and the ads (about 400 ad pages)
Where to get it: Already downloaded and extracted (WikiBot's working files)
Period: 1951–1969
Privacy: GATE as above
Status: ◐ Reserved / ongoing (WikiBot, 31 Oct 2026). Scope: a full single-pass extraction of every page of the Nor'Wester volumes lu1951–lu1969 (every named person, club, team, class, story and ad; Gemini, hard cap $10), enriching the people, group, business and volume pages created by the portrait pass, plus the forestry yearbook lufor1982 that the 1961–2004 pass skipped because of one page error. Not touching the Lakehead Teachers' College, Key 1968, Reflections 1969, Confederation College or Lakeview items (WikiBot 2)
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 20 of 20 volumes extracted (100%) with 5,107 people entries; one volume (lufor1982) had 87 of 88 pages extracted and lu1963 103 of 104 (one page error each). Per the working files, the pass is finished; the row text above has not been updated by that bot.

Lakeview High School Lion's Roar, 1962–66

Original row ("Where to find Thunder Bay yearbooks" table)

School / institution: Lakeview High School Lion's Roar 1962–66 (archive.org lakeviewhighschool)
What is known to exist: Five Lion's Roar yearbooks of Lakeview High School, Port Arthur, for 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1966 (858 scanned pages, with full text), contributed to the Internet Archive by the school: collection, items lionsroar1962onta to lionsroar1966onta
Where to get it: Internet Archive
Period: 1962–1966
Privacy: GATE (high-school students of these years were born in 1943 or later)
Status: ✔ Done (WikiBot 2, 31 Oct 2026). All 5 volumes: 6,295 person entries (3,599 new person pages, 2,696 entries merged into existing pages or earlier-year pages; students and most staff gated), 1,388 portraits uploaded, 1,229 group entries (968 new club/team/class pages), 401 advertiser entries (233 new business pages), 218 story summaries, plus the Lakeview High School and Lion's Roar (yearbook) pages Cleanup pass done (31 Oct 2026): 247 personal-activity pages tagged {{Pending deletion}}; 128 canonical group pages built from 403 source pages (290 redirects); 224 person name-variant clusters merged, then 121 demoted to Possibly related records (125 variant pages); 1,411 pages re-linked and 454 Activities lines added; 1,326 pages given years_in_thunder_bay; references retrofitted on 143 canonical group pages; the ref-error category holds no Lion's Roar pages.
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 5 of 5 volumes done (100%); 6,295 person entries.

Lakehead Teachers' College 1964–69 and Confederation College 1986

Original row ("Where to find Thunder Bay yearbooks" table)

School / institution: Lakehead Teachers' College 1964–69 and Confederation College 1986 (archive.org)
What is known to exist: Six more Lakehead Teachers' College yearbooks, Port Arthur (archive.org items lakeheadteachers1964port, lakeheadteachers1965port, lakeheadteachers1966port, lakeheadteachers1967port, key1968port (The Key, 1968) and reflections1969lake (Reflections, 1969); about 668 scanned pages, photo-heavy with thin text, so read from the page images), and the 1986 Confederation College Yearbook (item coneillm_confederationcollege_1, page images only, uploaded by the college). Not part of the lakeheaduniversity pass: WikiBot's Lakehead pass only covered Giant '61 (1961) from this series.
Where to get it: Internet Archive (collection allen_county); Confederation College 1986
Period: 1964–1969, 1986
Privacy: GATE (teachers' college students use age 17, so 1964 and later are born 1947 or later; staff use age 21)
Status: ✔ Done (WikiBot 2, 31 Oct 2026). First pass: 3,078 person entries (2,839 new person pages, 239 merged; students gated), 2,602 portraits uploaded, 412 group entries, 614 advertiser entries (395 new business pages), 616 ads, 163 story summaries. Cleanup pass (31 Oct 2026): 97 personal-activity pages tagged {{Pending deletion}} and 38 role or caption pages redirected; 46 canonical group pages built from 130 variant pages (84 redirects, with source-page citations kept); 9 person name variants merged and 38 pages cross-listed under Possibly related records; 54 '(fl. YEAR)' pages merged into their person page and 262 cross-listed; 66 duplicate business pages merged into existing pages and 13 renamed from capitals or slogans (about 540 links re-pointed); 1,193 more links re-pointed, 284 activities moved to 'Activities' lines, 15 generic phrases unlinked, 26 joke or caption story summaries dropped or trimmed; 2,780 pages given years_in_thunder_bay; 0 reference errors in all seven yearbook categories.
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 7 of 7 items done (six Teachers' College volumes plus the 1986 Confederation College yearbook, 100%); 3,078 person entries.

High-school yearbooks held only on paper

Original row ("Where to find Thunder Bay yearbooks" table)

School / institution: Thunder Bay high-school yearbooks held only on paper (Thunder Bay Museum library)
What is known to exist: Yearbooks that are catalogued at the Thunder Bay Museum library but have no online scan found: Vox Studentium (Port Arthur Collegiate Institute, PACI), Oracle (Fort William Collegiate Institute, FWCI), Kaministigoyan (Selkirk Collegiate and Vocational Institute), Tech Talk (Port Arthur Technical School), the St. Patrick's yearbook, Sagittarius (Northwood), the 1990 Lakeview yearbook, and the hospital nursing-school yearbooks. Copy counts and years for each school are in the school entries elsewhere on this page. To be bundled into one request to the Museum together with the missing Henderson's years, so that a single scanning visit covers all of them.
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum library (in person; no online copy)
Period: 1920s–1990s, by school
Privacy: GATE (students of the last ~100 years are presumed living unless a pre-1940 birth is implied; staff use age 21)
Status: ☐ Needs museum scan (WikiBot 2, 31 Oct 2026). Nothing ingested yet.
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (0%); the number of paper-only yearbooks is not counted here, so no total.

Fort William Collegiate Institute yearbooks

Original row ("Where to find Thunder Bay yearbooks" table)

School / institution: Fort William Collegiate Institute (1907–2005)
What is known to exist: The Thunder Bay Museum library holds the Oracle yearbook for 1927 to 1996 (66 copies catalogued)^[3]. The FWCI alumni Facebook group shows members posting and trading Oracle yearbooks, for example copies from 1955–61^[34]. Classmates.com has an alumni list for the school^[35]. Used copies appear for sale, e.g. a 1933 Oracle on AbeBooks^[36]
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum library (consult in person); FWCI alumni Facebook group; AbeBooks / eBay; Brodie library
Period: 1927–1996
Privacy: GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Port Arthur Collegiate Institute yearbooks

Original row ("Where to find Thunder Bay yearbooks" table)

School / institution: Port Arthur Collegiate Institute (1910–2007)
What is known to exist: The Thunder Bay Museum library holds the Vox Studentium yearbooks (37 copies catalogued, from the 1920s)^[3]. The Museum archives also hold a Port Arthur Collegiate Institute fonds of 14 cm of records, 1918–1974^[37]. A private alumni group exists on Facebook ("P.A.C.I. Alumni")^[38]
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum library and archives; PACI alumni Facebook group
Period: 1920s–2007
Privacy: GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); the Museum holds 37 Vox Studentium copies and a 14 cm fonds.

Hillcrest High School yearbooks

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School / institution: Hillcrest High School (Thunder Bay)
What is known to exist: The Hillcrest High Alumni Association has posted digitized yearbooks for 1963 to 2018 on its website^[39]. The Thunder Bay Museum has the 1977 In My Life^[3]
Where to get it: hillcrestalumni.org
Period: 1963–2018
Privacy: GATE
Status: ☐ Note (Oct 29 2026): hillcrestalumni.org is the alumni association of Hillcrest High School in Midvale, Utah, not Thunder Bay's Hillcrest; no Thunder Bay Hillcrest yearbooks were found online
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Selkirk Collegiate and Vocational Institute yearbooks

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School / institution: Selkirk Collegiate and Vocational Institute
What is known to exist: Kaministigoyan yearbooks from 1959: 9 copies at the Thunder Bay Museum^[3]. A Selkirk alumni Facebook group has members asking where to find older yearbooks (1965–67), so no complete online set is known
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum library; Selkirk alumni Facebook group
Period: 1959–
Privacy: GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Other Thunder Bay high-school yearbooks (Museum library)

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School / institution: Lakehead Technical Institute / Northwood High School / Lakeview High School / Port Arthur Technical and Commercial High School / St. Patrick's High School
What is known to exist: The Museum library lists Nor'wester 1952–54 and later (Lakehead Tech); Sagittarius (Northwood, 1969–, 18 copies); a 1990 Lakeview yearbook; Tech Talk (Port Arthur Tech, 1949 and later); and Fide et Labore Valebo (St. Patrick's, 3 copies)^[3]. Alumni Class has a St. Patrick Secondary alumni site^[40]
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum library; school alumni sites; Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board (St. Patrick's)
Period: 1949–1990s
Privacy: GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Hospital nursing-school yearbooks

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School / institution: Hospital nursing schools (McKellar General, Port Arthur General, St. Joseph's School of Nursing)
What is known to exist: Yearbooks: Iridos (McKellar, 26 copies), General'ly Speaking (Port Arthur General, 1952–), Sedula Nutrix (St. Joseph's, 1929 and others)^[3]
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum library
Period: 1929–1970s
Privacy: GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Ancestry: Canada, Selected School Yearbooks, 1901–2010

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School / institution: Ancestry: "Canada, Selected School Yearbooks, 1901–2010"
What is known to exist: An indexed collection of yearbooks from schools and colleges across Canada, with student portraits and group photos^[41]. Whether Thunder Bay schools are in it has to be checked by searching
Where to get it: Ancestry (the Brodie library offers Ancestry Library Edition inside the branch)
Period: 1901–2010
Privacy: GATE
Status: ?
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (needs verification); total unknown.

Classmates.com and AlumniClass

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School / institution: Classmates.com / AlumniClass
What is known to exist: Alumni lists by school and graduation year (names and years only; yearbook scans are mostly US)
Where to get it: Classmates.com; AlumniClass
Period: 1920s–2020s
Privacy: GATE (all living)
Status: Low value; use only to corroborate
Progress (2 Nov 2026): not applicable (low value, not planned).

eBay, AbeBooks and Facebook (used yearbooks)

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School / institution: eBay / AbeBooks / Facebook
What is known to exist: Used original yearbooks are bought and sold, and school alumni groups regularly trade or scan them. A good way to obtain yearbooks that exist only on paper
Where to get it: eBay, AbeBooks, school alumni Facebook groups
Period: —
Privacy: GATE
Status: ☐ Michael to decide on a budget
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (waiting for Michael's budget decision).

Internet Archive and Canadiana (high schools)

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School / institution: Internet Archive and Canadiana (high schools)
What is known to exist: A search of the Internet Archive found no Thunder Bay high-school yearbooks (only the Lakehead University items above, and many unrelated Classmates uploads from US schools). No Canadiana hit for a Thunder Bay yearbook turned up either
Where to get it: —
Period: —
Privacy: —
Status: Checked 28 Oct 2026; nothing found
Progress (2 Nov 2026): not applicable (nothing found).

Confederation College graduation books

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School / institution: Confederation College graduation books (gradbook.confederationcollege.ca)
What is known to exist: A catalogue of the college's digital graduation books, with graduate names by program and campus; the 2025 and 2026 editions were seen. Unlike the 1986 yearbook already ingested, these are very recent, so every named graduate is living
Where to get it: Confederation College grad books
Period: 2025–2026
Privacy: GATE (all living)
Status: ☐ Not ingested (found 31 Oct 2026)
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Unidentified Google Drive folder Yearbooks

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School / institution: Unidentified shared Google Drive folder Yearbooks
What is known to exist: A public Google Drive folder named Yearbooks holding about 50 PDF scans, one per year, 1947 to 1996. The folder does not name the school. The span matches the Museum's Oracle (Fort William Collegiate Institute, 1927–1996) but that is a guess: open one PDF and confirm the school before anything is ingested
Where to get it: Public Google Drive folder (link kept in WikiBot's research notes)
Period: 1947–1996
Privacy: GATE (students of these years are mostly living)
Status: ? Needs verification (found 31 Oct 2026). Nothing ingested
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (needs verification); about 50 PDFs, if it is what it appears to be.

Fort William Collegiate Institute class of 1964 website

Original row ("Where to find Thunder Bay yearbooks" table)

School / institution: Fort William Collegiate Institute class of 1964 website (fwci64.tripod.com)
What is known to exist: A class website for the FWCI class of 1964, with class reunion pages and probably a class list. Content not yet read, so it is only a lead to corroborate names and nicknames
Where to get it: fwci64.tripod.com
Period: 1964 (class)
Privacy: GATE (class members born about 1946)
Status: ✔ Read, nothing to ingest (WikiBot 2, 31 Oct 2026). The site is a single reunion-contact page (captured from the Wayback Machine snapshot of 10 July 2019, since the live host returns HTTP 500/503): it names only the two organisers by first name (Gary and Al), shows one 1964 yearbook-cover image and a contact e-mail, and has no class list, no nicknames and no other pages. The copy is saved at /workspace/fwci64/. Not a source of people; the real source for the class is the FWCI Oracle 1964 (Drive “Yearbooks” folder, row above).
Progress (2 Nov 2026): not applicable (nothing to ingest).

Lakehead District School Board website

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School / institution: Lakehead District School Board website (lakeheadschools.ca)
What is known to exist: Current school pages, news and board meeting minutes; useful for school history, closures and consolidations, and trustee and staff names. No yearbooks were found there (31 Oct 2026). The Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board (Issuu publications and a records page) was also checked and holds no yearbooks
Where to get it: lakeheadschools.ca
Period: 2010s–present
Privacy: GATE (current staff and students)
Status: ☐ Low value; use for school-history facts only (found 31 Oct 2026)
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); low value.

Yearbooks, all schools (umbrella item)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 45)

#: 45
Michael's idea: Yearbooks (Michael agreed they are a good idea)
Link (from the notes): see yearbook table
Overlaps with: Yearbooks
Status: ☐ GATE

Lakehead University convocation programs

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Source: Lakehead University convocation programs
What it contains: Lists of every graduate by degree. Current ones are on the Lakehead site; the Archives & Digital Collections site has an exhibit of historic programs^[42]
Where to get it: Lakehead digital collections; PDF programs on lakeheadu.ca
Period: 1960s–2026
Privacy: GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 8)

#: 8
Michael's idea: Lakehead convocation programs (two PDFs given)
Link (from the notes): program 1; the second program is in the notes file
Overlaps with: Convocation
Status: ☐ GATE

Lakehead public-school registers before 1942

Original row ("Other school and university records" table)

Source: Lakehead public-school registers before 1942
What it contains: Michael's idea. Daily attendance registers and school enrolment records. Requires a formal request to the Freedom of Information coordinator at the Lakehead Public Schools administrative office (Jim McCuaig Education Centre), arguing that anyone enrolled before 1942 was born in 1936 or earlier and is presumed to have been dead for more than 30 years under Ontario's privacy rules (MFIPPA)
Where to get it: FOI coordinator, Lakehead District School Board
Period: to 1941
Privacy: Public if released
Status: ☐ Request not yet made
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (request not made); total unknown.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 2)

#: 2
Michael's idea: Early Lakehead student enrolment and attendance registers up to 1941, requested by FOI
Link (from the notes): Lakehead Public Schools (Jim McCuaig Education Centre)
Overlaps with: School records
Status: ☐

Port Arthur and Fort William school records at the museum

Original row ("Other school and university records" table)

Source: Port Arthur and Fort William school records at the museum
What it contains: The museum holds the Port Arthur Collegiate fonds, Port Arthur Board of Education scrapbooks, and "Fort William Public Schools Exams"^[30]
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum archives
Period: 1900s–1970s
Privacy: Pre-1950 public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Lakehead University history theses

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Source: Lakehead University history theses
What it contains: Michael's idea. Every graduate history thesis by Lakehead students, many about local people and communities
Where to get it: Lakehead history department graduate theses
Period: 1970s–present
Privacy: Public (secondary)
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 5)

#: 5
Michael's idea: "Every history thesis" from Lakehead
Link (from the notes): Lakehead
Overlaps with: School records
Status: ☐

Lakehead University Alumni Spotlight

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Source: Lakehead University Alumni Spotlight
What it contains: Profile stories of Lakehead alumni, one a month from 2015 to 2026 (87 stories on the index), each about a graduate's career, community work and time at Lakehead; many are Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario people. Pages are archived on datum.locker and cited from the person's page; photos are not used (Lakehead copyright)
Where to get it: Lakehead alumni spotlight
Period: 2015–2026
Privacy: GATE (mostly living)
Status: ✔ First pass done 30 Oct 2026 (WikiBot): all 87 stories archived on datum.locker (see Lakehead University Alumni Spotlight); 98 profiled people, 96 new pages and 2 added to existing pages (Faye Verheggen, Jean-Paul De Roover). Found through Faye Verheggen. Photos not used. New stories will need a re-check
Stubs pass: done by WikiBot, 31 Oct 2026. 565 stubs created for people, organisations, businesses, schools, places and other things named in the profiles (cited to the archived stories; people gated as living unless the story says otherwise; Category:Mentioned in Lakehead University Alumni Spotlight); 25 redirects for name variants; 5 existing pages linked or extended (Marina Park (Thunder Bay), The Argus (Thunder Bay), Mood Indigo, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Hudson's Bay Company); 33 duplicated degree lines fixed on 26 profile pages. About 540 generic red links (countries, cities, degrees, concepts, world-famous people and brands, ministries, first-name-only relatives) were deliberately left unstubbed.
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 87 of 87 stories done (100%); 98 people profiled.

Anishinabek News

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Source: Anishinabek News (anishinabeknews.ca)
What it contains: Newspaper of the Union of Ontario Indians (Anishinabek Nation), covering First Nations news across Ontario, including Northwestern Ontario and Thunder Bay. The sitemap lists 6,025 articles (2013–2026). Each article is archived on datum.locker; the people, places, organisations and things named get pages (or are added to existing pages), written in our own words and cited to both the archived copy and the original article. Photos are not used. See Anishinabek News
Where to get it: anishinabeknews.ca
Period: 2013–2026
Privacy: GATE (mostly living)
Status: WikiBot — reserved / ongoing (2 Nov 2026, 00:20 UTC+7): all 6,026 articles archived on datum.locker; 3,911 extracted and source-checked so far, about 2,050 left (extraction resumed 2 Nov); 17,617 entity pages created or enriched, including 737 re-rendered to restore wikilinks.
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 4,064 of 6,026 articles extracted (67%), all 6,026 archived (100%); about 1,962 left. 3,268 pages are tagged Category:Mentioned in Anishinabek News.

Lakehead University Archives: school-related files

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Source: Lakehead University Archives: school-related files
What it contains: Archives catalogue entries for the Library Technology yearbooks (1968–74), a Confederation College file (1978–83) and Fort William Collegiate Institute correspondence (1958–65). Only the descriptions have been seen, not the contents
Where to get it: Lakehead University Archives (in person or by request)
Period: 1958–1983
Privacy: GATE for anything after 1940 naming students
Status: ☐ Not ingested (found 31 Oct 2026)
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

The Argus (Lakehead University student newspaper)

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Source: The Argus (Lakehead University student newspaper)
What it contains: Issues of the student newspaper for 1966–69 and 1988–92 on Archives & Digital Collections; names students, staff, clubs and teams. Check whether other years exist before planning a pass
Where to get it: Archives & Digital Collections at Lakehead University Library
Period: 1966–69, 1988–92
Privacy: GATE (students)
Status: ☐ Not ingested (found 31 Oct 2026)
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Other Lakehead University digital exhibits

Original row ("Other school and university records" table)

Source: Other Lakehead University digital exhibits (Agora 1984–2011, Caret 1973–75, Anishinaabemowik Indigenous Languages Program documents)
What it contains: The exhibits list also has the faculty and staff magazine Agora, the science review Caret, and Faculty of Education Indigenous language program documents from the early 1970s on, including program yearbooks. Handle the Indigenous program material with care
Where to get it: Lakehead digital exhibits
Period: 1970s–2011
Privacy: GATE (post-1940 names)
Status: ☐ Not ingested (found 31 Oct 2026)
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Lakehead University faculty and staff pages

Original row ("Maps, property, municipal records and institutional websites" table)

Source: Lakehead University faculty and staff pages
What it contains: Current and former faculty, with titles and departments^[43]. Retired-faculty obituaries: Lakehead Retirees "In Memoriam"
Where to get it: directory; Lakehead Retirees – In Memoriam
Period: 1965–present
Privacy: GATE for current staff
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Lakehead statistics book

Original row (brainstorm table, item 7)

#: 7
Michael's idea: Lakehead statistics book
Link (from the notes): PDF
Overlaps with: —
Status: ☐ (statistics, few names)

Churches, lodges, clubs and community organizations

Sitewide Living-gate sweep and family-link check

Original row ("Churches, lodges, clubs and community organizations" table)

Source: Sitewide Living-gate sweep and family-link check (WikiBot QC)
What it contains: Quality sweep of the wiki itself: every page in Category:Living persons is checked for death wording or for evidence of a birth before 1940 (gate removed where the evidence is solid, borderline cases listed), and the {{Person}} father, mother and partner fields, Family-section links and self-links are checked for impossible relationships (parent younger than child, parent dead long before the birth, same-name mix-ups)
Where to get it: Wiki pages (no outside source)
Period: all pages
Privacy: GATE
Status: ◐ Reserved / ongoing (WikiBot, 31 Oct 2026). Nobody else held a row for this at reservation time. No Gemini; reports in the WikiBot working folder.
Progress (2 Nov 2026): all 55,362 pages in Category:Living persons scanned (100%); 2,858 of the 3,082 planned gate removals processed (92%), with about 1,106 borderline pages kept gated. Family-link check: report written, edits listed in the QC folder.

Church history pages and anniversary books

Original row ("Churches, lodges, clubs and community organizations" table)

Source: Church history pages and anniversary books
What it contains: Every church has a history page or a published parish book naming clergy, founders and families. Example: Lappe Lutheran Church^[44]. Michael's note: "all the churches of town"
Where to get it: Individual church websites; Thunder Bay Museum library; Roman Catholic Diocese of Thunder Bay
Period: 1870–present
Privacy: Public (history) / GATE (modern membership)
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 31)

#: 31
Michael's idea: Church history pages, e.g. Lappe Lutheran
Link (from the notes): Lappe Lutheran
Overlaps with: Churches
Status: ☐

Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society Collection

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Source: Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society Collection and Finnish Archives at Lakehead
What it contains: A large body of records of Finnish immigrants in Northwestern Ontario: correspondence, manuscripts, photographs and oral-history interviews^[45]
Where to get it: Lakehead University Archives; digital collection; Finnish Archives blog
Period: 1900–2000s
Privacy: Pre-1950 public; oral histories GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 39)

#: 39
Michael's idea: Thunder Bay Finnish Canadian Historical Society Collection
Link (from the notes): collection
Overlaps with: Finnish records
Status: ☐

Finnish Labour Temple and Rosies of the North archive

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Source: Finnish Labour Temple and "Rosies of the North" project archive
What it contains: Records of the "Big Finn Hall", the Hoito restaurant and women who worked at Can-Car in WWII; the site has an employee-cards section^[46]
Where to get it: Rosies of the North; Lakehead Archives; Finnish Labour Temple
Period: 1910–1950s
Privacy: Pre-1950 public; later GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Lodge, club and society rosters

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Source: Lodge, club and society rosters
What it contains: The Thunder Bay Museum archives list fonds for Algoma Lodge #267 IOOF, Rebekah Greenstone #86 IOOF, Golden Gateway Lodge #384 AOLW, Fort William Caledonian Society, Thunder Bay Scottish Club, Kaministikwia Club, IODE chapters, Women's Institutes, the Canadian Club, YMCA and about 90 other organizations^[30]
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum archives (by appointment)
Period: 1880s–1990s
Privacy: Pre-1950 public; later GATE
Status: ☐ Note: the Fort William Little Theatre fonds is a different organization from the Fort Theatre
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Labour and union records

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Source: Labour and union records
What it contains: Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Division 63 (1903–1968), Thunder Bay and District Labour Council, United Steelworkers, CAW Local 1075, Port Arthur Coal Handlers' Union (1911–17)^[30]
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum archives
Period: 1900s–1970s
Privacy: Pre-1950 public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Italian community (CIBPA newsletter)

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Source: Italian community
What it contains: Michael's idea: Italian Canadian Business and Professional Association (CIBPA) Thunder Bay newsletter, Spring 1998
Where to get it: CIBPA newsletter PDF
Period: 20th century
Privacy: GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 22)

#: 22
Michael's idea: Italian community: CIBPA Thunder Bay newsletter, Spring 1998 (listed twice)
Link (from the notes): PDF
Overlaps with: Italian community
Status: ☐ GATE

Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame

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Source: Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame
What it contains: 330 inductees as of 2025, as athletes, builders and teams^[47]. The list is public, and many inductees have no wiki page yet
Where to get it: NWO Sports Hall of Fame inductees; Wikipedia list
Period: 1978–2026
Privacy: GATE for living inductees
Status: ✔ WikiBot 3: done (31 Oct 2026); counts in row 26.
Progress (2 Nov 2026): done (100%); counts are in the WikiBot 3 row of the brainstorm table (354 profiles).

Original row (brainstorm table, item 26)

#: 26
Michael's idea: Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame (ingest all)
Link (from the notes): inductees
Overlaps with: NWO Sports Hall of Fame
Status: ✔ WikiBot 3: done (31 Oct 2026). Ingested all 354 non-blank profiles from nwosportshalloffame.com (site lists 355: 197 athletes, 105 builders, 53 teams; one builder profile is blank). 301 individuals: 91 existing pages enriched, 210 new pages (plus 5 merged into existing pages by redirect); 53 team pages with linked rosters (843 roster names: 62 linked to inductee pages, 201 to existing pages, 579 to 528 new stubs); lists: List of Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame athletes, List of Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame builders, List of Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame teams. Archived copies on datum.locker.
Progress (2 Nov 2026): done: 354 of 354 non-blank profiles (100%).

Samira Saramo (Finnish migration datasets)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 28)

#: 28
Michael's idea: Ask Samira Saramo (Finnish migration historian) for datasets
Link (from the notes): —
Overlaps with: Finnish records
Status: ☐ Michael to contact

Finnish migration book (Finnbook)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 29)

#: 29
Michael's idea: Finnish migration book (Finnbook)
Link (from the notes): Wayback copy
Overlaps with: Finnish records
Status: ☐

Employers, staff magazines and company records

All of these also feed the "every company gets its own stub page" rule.

Canadian Car and Foundry (Can-Car), Fort William

Original row ("Employers, staff magazines and company records" table)

Source: Canadian Car and Foundry (Can-Car), Fort William
What it contains: Museum fonds covers 1917–1923 and 1944–1979, including Aircrafter (wartime employee newspaper, 1944–45 issues) and Can-Car Clarion (1974–75)^[48]. Rosies of the North holds employee cards
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum; Rosies of the North; Northwestern Ontario Aviation Heritage Centre
Period: 1912–1990s
Privacy: Pre-1950 public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); the Museum fonds is about 45 issues of staff papers.

Great Lakes Paper Company

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Source: Great Lakes Paper Company
What it contains: Museum fonds includes issues of the company magazine The Link and 1948–1950 records^[49]
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum
Period: 1924–1998
Privacy: Pre-1950 public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Abitibi Power and Paper and Provincial Paper

Original row ("Employers, staff magazines and company records" table)

Source: Abitibi Power & Paper and Provincial Paper
What it contains: Museum fonds: Abitibi Power & Paper Co. 1926–1947; Provincial Paper fonds with plant records^[30]
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum
Period: 1926–1947
Privacy: Pre-1950 public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company

Original row ("Employers, staff magazines and company records" table)

Source: Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company
What it contains: 44 cm of records, 1909–1966, from its start as the Western Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company^[50]
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum
Period: 1909–1966
Privacy: Pre-1950 public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); 44 cm of records.

Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway

Original row ("Employers, staff magazines and company records" table)

Source: Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway
What it contains: The CPR fonds at the museum covers 1906–1940. LAC does not hold CPR employment records, and the CPR's own employee records are not open to researchers^[51]. Michael's note adds the CN Pensioners' local council as a source
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum; CN Pensioners Local Council C13; Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers records
Period: 1906–1940s
Privacy: Pre-1950 public; pensioners GATE
Status: ☐ Employee records themselves: not available
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); employee records themselves are not available.

CN Pensioners, local council C13

Original row (brainstorm table, item 11)

#: 11
Michael's idea: CN Pensioners, local council C13
Link (from the notes): CN Pensioners
Overlaps with: Railways
Status: ☐ GATE

Grain elevators

Original row ("Employers, staff magazines and company records" table)

Source: Grain elevators
What it contains: Friends of Grain Elevators has the history of the Thunder Bay elevators and a timeline^[52]
Where to get it: Friends of Grain Elevators; Thunder Bay Museum (Saskatchewan Pool Elevators, N.M. Paterson & Sons)
Period: 1880s–2000s
Privacy: Pre-1950 public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 33)

#: 33
Michael's idea: Friends of Grain Elevators
Link (from the notes): about us
Overlaps with: Grain elevators
Status: ☐

Other business fonds

Original row ("Employers, staff magazines and company records" table)

Source: Other business fonds
What it contains: J.V. Welch Co. (1897–1983), Thomas Marks & Co. (1874–1893), Hudson's Bay Company (1823–1971), Silver Islet Mining Co. (1870–1884), Steep Rock Iron Mines, Royal Edward Hotel, Woodside Bros. Foundry and over 40 more^[30]
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Museum
Period: 1806–1983
Privacy: Pre-1950 public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Fur-trade posts: NWC and HBC at Fort William

Original row ("Employers, staff magazines and company records" table)

Source: Fur-trade posts (North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company at Fort William)
What it contains: Michael's idea: list every named employee, year by year, from 1800 to the post's closure, with HBC account books, post journals and pay records at the Hudson's Bay Company Archives (Archives of Manitoba)
Where to get it: Hudson's Bay Company Archives; Thunder Bay Museum (HBC 1823–1971, NWC 1806–09)
Period: 1800–1900s
Privacy: Public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); see the pre-1900 section for the sizes known so far. See also the pre-1900 priority section.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 14)

#: 14
Michael's idea: Every white person at the NWC and HBC post at Fort William, 1800 to closing (about ten per year after 1821)
Link (from the notes): HBC Archives, Archives of Manitoba
Overlaps with: Fur-trade posts
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): No progress yet. See also the pre-1900 priority section.

Thunder Bay Museum archives and indexes

Original row (brainstorm table, item 19)

#: 19
Michael's idea: Thunder Bay Museum archives indexes ("even the indexes are useful")
Link (from the notes): archives page
Overlaps with: Business and community fonds
Status: ☐

Maps, property, municipal records and institutional websites

Fire insurance plans of Fort William and Port Arthur

Original row ("Maps, property, municipal records and institutional websites" table)

Source: Fire insurance plans of Fort William and Port Arthur
What it contains: Building-by-building plans showing construction, use and addresses. The City Archives has copies for several years^[53]. The Museum also holds the Underwriters' Survey Bureau fonds^[30]
Where to get it: City of Thunder Bay Archives; Thunder Bay Museum; Library and Archives Canada map collection
Period: 1889–1920s
Privacy: Public
Status: ☐ Names owners rarely; best for address and building checks
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Council minutes, by-laws and city agendas

Original row ("Maps, property, municipal records and institutional websites" table)

Source: Council minutes, by-laws and city agendas
What it contains: Council minutes for Fort William, Port Arthur and Thunder Bay back to the 1880s on microfilm^[9]. City agendas and minutes are online^[54]
Where to get it: City Archives; thunderbay.ca
Period: 1880s–present
Privacy: Recent GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 34)

#: 34
Michael's idea: Dates when roads were created or named
Link (from the notes): —
Overlaps with: City Archives by-laws
Status: ☐

Land registry records

Original row ("Maps, property, municipal records and institutional websites" table)

Source: Land registry records
What it contains: City Archives keeps land registry records for Thunder Bay and the surrounding townships^[55]
Where to get it: City Archives
Period: 1870s–present
Privacy: Pre-1950 public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Municipal websites (Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario)

Original row ("Maps, property, municipal records and institutional websites" table)

Source: Municipal websites (City of Thunder Bay and all Northwestern Ontario municipalities)
What it contains: Michael's idea (2 Nov 2026): ingest and archive every municipal website, starting with thunderbay.ca. Types of content: award-recipient bios, council and committee agendas and minutes, committee and board membership and appointments, the heritage register and heritage-property pages, staff and employee-spotlight pages, news releases, honours (for example the Walk of Fame, where a municipal page exists), past councils and mayors, election candidate profiles, cemetery pages and city-archives pages. First example: orc-2016-award-recipient-bios.pdf, a 19-page PDF of the 2016 Good Citizen, Spirit of Thunder Bay and Youth award-recipient bios (the file itself does not spell out ORC; the City's Official Recognition Awards page names the series and the City's meeting portal lists an Official Recognition Committee, so ORC is most likely that committee's initials).^[56] Archive: the PDF is registered at Datum Locker as datum.locker/r/f1ad640e…2a1.
Where to get it: Target sites (official addresses checked 2 Nov 2026; Conmee, O'Connor, Gillies, Dorion and Machin were found by search, the rest by loading the address): Thunder Bay; Oliver Paipoonge; Shuniah; Neebing; Conmee; O'Connor; Gillies; Dorion; Red Rock; Nipigon; Schreiber; Terrace Bay; Marathon; Greenstone; Manitouwadge; Atikokan; Fort Frances; Rainy River; Emo; Kenora; Dryden; Sioux Lookout; Red Lake; Ignace; Machin. Council and committee minutes for Thunder Bay are on a separate portal, eSCRIBE^[57]. Inventories (working files in the WikiBotBoss folder): thunderbay_inventory.tsv and other_municipalities_inventory.tsv.
Period: 2010 to present for the award bios; older for past councils and heritage pages
Privacy: GATE (current councillors, staff, candidates and recent award winners are living persons; archive freely, ingest through the gate)
Status: ◐ Ongoing (WikiBotBoss, started 2 Nov 2026). Archive only; nothing has been ingested into articles.
Progress (2 Nov 2026, 18:45 Bangkok time): thunderbay.ca: 56 of 3280 inventory URLs archived at Datum Locker (1%): 39 of 3257 pages and 17 of 23 PDFs; people-bearing pages and PDFs (awards, council, committees, heritage, staff, named news) 56 of 596. 6 linked documents could not be fetched (401 or 404 responses) and are logged. The PDF count grows as the archiver finds linked documents; the page count comes from the site's sitemap. Pace about one page every 5–10 seconds, robots.txt followed. The other 24 municipalities: 0 archived, queued; sitemap sizes where available are in the second inventory file.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 27)

#: 27
Michael's idea: Thunder Bay municipal website (ingest all)
Link (from the notes): thunderbay.ca
Overlaps with: Municipal
Status: ☐ GATE

Newspapers, forums and other community sources

Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History

Original row ("Newspapers, forums and other community sources" table)

Source: Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History
What it contains: A virtual gallery of photographs, maps, books and newspaper clippings with full-text or index records, run by the Thunder Bay Public Library and hosted by OurDigitalWorld^[58]
Where to get it: TBPL local history page (link to the Gateway)
Period: 1870s–2000s
Privacy: Pre-1950 public
Status: ◐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): partly browsed; no count kept, so no percent.

Thunder Bay Museum virtual exhibits and historical figures

Original row ("Newspapers, forums and other community sources" table)

Source: Thunder Bay Museum virtual exhibits and "historical figures"
What it contains: Biographies, such as Hans Krakhofer and Robert Joseph Flaherty, and the museum's newsletters
Where to get it: virtual exhibits; newsletters
Period: 1870s–present
Privacy: Public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 of 7 people (the seven are done under the Museum's historical-figures row; see that row).

Original row (Already ingested table)

Source: Thunder Bay Museum, Historical Figures virtual exhibit (owner: WikiBot)
Coverage: Six museum pages, seven people (Murphy, McKellar, Graham and Horne, Flaherty, Armstrong, Krakhofer)
Status: ✔ Done (29 Oct 2026): every figure has an enriched or new article, each museum page and 2–3 further sources archived on datum.locker, public-domain pictures uploaded where the basis is clear; see Category:Thunder Bay Museum historical figures
Notes: Matching directory and newspaper stubs were merged into the main pages. Pictures of Krakhofer's artwork and an undated portrait of Flaherty were skipped for copyright reasons
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 7 of 7 people on the six museum pages done (100%).

Original row (brainstorm table, item 15)

#: 15
Michael's idea: All Thunder Bay Museum "historical figures", virtual exhibits and newsletters
Link (from the notes): example, exhibits, newsletters
Overlaps with: Newspapers / museum
Status: ☐

Facebook Thunder Bay Memories and r/ThunderBay

Original row ("Newspapers, forums and other community sources" table)

Source: Facebook "Thunder Bay Memories" and local Reddit
What it contains: Michael's idea: extract Thunder Bay Memories to a local store first, then all of r/ThunderBay (e.g. the thread on best St. Pat's teachers)
Where to get it: Facebook group; reddit.com/r/ThunderBay
Period: 2010s–present
Privacy: GATE (living; terms of service apply)
Status: ◐ Facebook seed tool exists
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 ingested; a Facebook seed tool exists. Total unknown.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 36)

#: 36
Michael's idea: Thunder Bay Memories (Facebook) to local, then all of Reddit's r/ThunderBay
Link (from the notes): example thread
Overlaps with: Social media
Status: ◐ GATE

Old message boards and forums

Original row ("Newspapers, forums and other community sources" table)

Source: Old message boards and forums
What it contains: Michael's idea: TBshows forum and other Thunder Bay forums, LiveJournal, and archived message boards (check what the Wayback Machine holds)
Where to get it: forum.tbshows.com (did not respond on 28 Oct 2026); archive.org
Period: 2000s–2010s
Privacy: GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Personal site on Thunder Bay history (my.tbaytel.net/lwmayes)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 3)

#: 3
Michael's idea: Personal site on Thunder Bay history
Link (from the notes): my.tbaytel.net/lwmayes (did not respond on 28 Oct 2026)
Overlaps with: —
Status: ? Unknown content

CKPR-TV history (broadcasting-history.ca)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 16)

#: 16
Michael's idea: CKPR-TV history (broadcasting-history.ca)
Link (from the notes): page (did not respond on 28 Oct 2026)
Overlaps with: Staff and on-air people
Status: ☐

Thunder Bay musicians site

Original row (brainstorm table, item 17)

#: 17
Michael's idea: Thunder Bay musicians site
Link (from the notes): thunderbaymusicians.com
Overlaps with: Thunder Bay BandWiki
Status: ☐ GATE

Farmers in Oliver Paipoonge (July 2025 newsletter)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 18)

#: 18
Michael's idea: Farmers in Oliver Paipoonge
Link (from the notes): July 2025 newsletter (the link returned "not found" on 28 Oct 2026)
Overlaps with: —
Status: ? Link dead

Family-history sites (McInnes, PHPGedView)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 24)

#: 24
Michael's idea: Family-history sites: McInnes family history; PHPGedView trees
Link (from the notes): McInnes (did not respond on 28 Oct 2026); PHPGedView
Overlaps with: —
Status: ? Unknown content

Hymers Fair 2023 programme

Original row (brainstorm table, item 6)

#: 6
Michael's idea: Hymers Fair 2023 programme (rural families)
Link (from the notes): PDF
Overlaps with: —
Status: ☐ GATE

Murder data (OCPC report; Flaherty)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 20)

#: 20
Michael's idea: Murder data: Thunder Bay Police Services Board investigation report; Robert Joseph Flaherty
Link (from the notes): OCPC report; Flaherty
Overlaps with: Category:Murder victims
Status: ☐ GATE (recent victims named)

Clipping: Morton and Adcock; Charlie Bliss

Original row (brainstorm table, item 35)

#: 35
Michael's idea: An old clipping: "Morton and Adcock, the live realtors"; Charlie Bliss, CPR trainman and switchman who farmed at Slate River
Link (from the notes): (pasted text)
Overlaps with: Newspapers; Henderson's
Status: ☐ Extract names and link them

Friends of Grain Elevators: Voices of the Grain Trade

Original row ("Newspapers, forums and other community sources" table)

Source: Friends of Grain Elevators, Voices of the Grain Trade oral histories
What it contains: Transcribed interviews with about 200 people from the Canadian grain trade (elevator workers, inspectors, lake shippers, managers, farmers, railway staff), mostly from Thunder Bay and Winnipeg, each with a short biography. The interviews are also held in Lakehead University's archives
Where to get it: Friends of Grain Elevators – Voices
Period: 1950s–2020s
Privacy: GATE for living interviewees
Status: ☐ To crawl. Permission requested by email on 30 Oct 2026 to reference and summarise the pages, cross-reference the people named and use their photos. Photos will not be used unless the Friends grant permission. Nothing has been crawled yet
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 of about 200 interviews (0%).

Local newspaper social columns and TBPL newspaper indexes

Original row (Already ingested table)

Source: Local newspaper social columns and indexes (Daily Times-Journal, News-Chronicle, Chronicle-Journal)
Coverage: 1880s–present
Status: ✔ Done / ongoing
Notes: Birth, marriage and death notices, "Thunder Bay Memories"
Progress (2 Nov 2026): ongoing source with no fixed total (many years of newspapers); no count is kept, so no percent.

Original row ("Vital records and censuses" table)

Source: Thunder Bay Public Library newspaper indexes
What it contains: Indexes of birth, marriage and death notices: Thunder Bay Sentinel 1875–79, 1891–95; Fort William Daily Times Journal obituaries 1900–1972; Port Arthur News-Chronicle obituaries 1906–1972; Chronicle Journal obituaries 1972–2026; social notices and news 1914–2025^[58]
Where to get it: TBPL indexes; full text on microfilm at Brodie
Period: 1875–2026
Privacy: Recent years GATE
Status: ◐ social columns done; ☐ the obituary indexes
Progress (2 Nov 2026): social columns done; obituary indexes 0 (0%); total index entries unknown.

Other newspaper archives (Kenora, Atikokan)

Original row ("Newspapers, forums and other community sources" table)

Source: Other newspaper archives
What it contains: a 1956 issue of a Kenora newspaper, from the City of Kenora's online newspaper archive, as a model for regional newspapers; Atikokan Progress online 1950–2006^[59]
Where to get it: Kenora example; Atikokan Museum
Period: 1950s–2000s
Privacy: Pre-1950 public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 9)

#: 9
Michael's idea: Kenora newspaper archive
Link (from the notes): example issue
Overlaps with: Other newspapers
Status: ☐

Lawyers called to the bar

Original row ("Newspapers, forums and other community sources" table)

Source: Lawyers called to the bar
What it contains: Law Society of Ontario "Biographies by year called to 1940" (Michael's idea)
Where to get it: LSO page
Period: to 1940
Privacy: Public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 21)

#: 21
Michael's idea: Lawyers called to the bar before 1940
Link (from the notes): LSO
Overlaps with: Lawyers
Status: ☐

Newspaper-derived people stubs

Original row (brainstorm table, item 41)

#: 41
Michael's idea: Newspaper-derived people: create stubs for every confirmed entity and cite the article as source; export 10 random persons with their articles as a CSV to check quality; find orphan entities that could match existing pages
Link (from the notes): (internal database)
Overlaps with: Newspaper indexes
Status: ☐

Agentic walk of Cite tbnews references

Original row (brainstorm table, item 42)

#: 42
Michael's idea: Agentic walk of Cite tbnews references: read the original article, enrich the person page, link all named people, cross-post the reference, then flag the citation as "read" so the walk can resume
Link (from the notes): (internal)
Overlaps with: Newspapers
Status: ☐ Needs a "read" flag in Template:Cite tbnews

Obituaries (Tavily, datum.locker, Legacy.com)

Original row (Already ingested table)

Source: Obituaries (via Tavily, datum.locker and Legacy.com)
Coverage: 1990s–present
Status: WikiBot 3: done (31 Oct 2026). WikiBot 3 500-obituary run finished 2026-10-30 (Bangkok): 523 person pages enriched from obituaries, each cited with a datum.locker permanent link; about 10,600 relative, workplace and church stubs created; 50 duplicate pages merged with redirects over the run; 32 uncertain duplicate pairs left unmerged; 3 confirmed obituaries not applied because datum.locker could not archive them (Ginette Brink, Eini Niemi (died 2023), Matti Alanen (died 2025)). Tavily spend about $22 beyond the plan. Follow-up passes, all by WikiBot 3: (1) 30 Oct 2026 repair: 105 pages affected and 97 rebuilt (in-laws wrongly recorded as parents, self-name links, missing infobox parents; 45 stubs renamed and 45 rewritten, 33 missing parent stubs created); all 523 pages re-verified clean. (2) 30 Oct 2026 relink pass: 840 relatives linked to existing pages across 341 obituary pages, 816 redundant stubs redirected, 796 back-links added on the existing pages; 1,131 uncertain matches left unlinked. (3) 31 Oct 2026 cleanup (done): 74 placeholder stubs identified (e.g. "Unknown Webster", "Three sisters", "Wife Walker", "Parents (relative of John Mauracher)"); all unlinked on the 45 pages that referred to them, leaving the plain wording, 74 placeholder stubs tagged {{Pending deletion}} (Category:Pages pending deletion) for a sweeper; doubled-period typos fixed on 1,103 stub and obituary pages; final check found 0 undefined refs and 0 links to the placeholders in page text.
Notes: Starts after the Henderson's work. Recent obituaries are GATE for living relatives named in them. Candidates: people with a recorded death date from 2008 onward. No obituary-based edit is made without a datum.locker archive link
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 1,122 pages in Category:Obituaries; the total number of Thunder Bay obituaries is unknown, so no percent.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 40)

#: 40
Michael's idea: Enrich recent decedents with obituaries only, rather than something more generic
Link (from the notes): —
Overlaps with: Obituary pilot (100 obituaries via Tavily and datum.locker)
Status: ✓ Pilot of 100 done 29 Oct 2026
Progress (2 Nov 2026): pilot of 100 done; the full total of recent decedents is unknown.

Lakehead Retirees In Memoriam obituaries

Original row (brainstorm table, item 25)

#: 25
Michael's idea: Lakehead Retirees "In Memoriam" obituaries
Link (from the notes): In Memoriam
Overlaps with: Obituary pilot
Status: WikiBot 3: done (31 Oct 2026). Pass 1 (website In Memoriam page): All 27 entries on the single In Memoriam page were ingested: 18 existing person pages enriched, 9 person pages created, 5 duplicate pages merged with redirects (Bill Eames, Linda Phillips, George Kondor, Bruce Minore, John Naysmith), 26 redirects for name variants, 246 relative stubs created, about 50 existing relative pages linked and tied back, plus the RALU organisation page, 11 other organisation stubs and 2 categories. Each entry and the whole page were archived to datum.locker as client-side file claims (no Tavily; Gemini not used; cost $0). Uncertain: David Lewis kept separate from the older David Lewis page because the death years conflict; a 1980 notice for Mathew Stefureak is under Possibly related records; Jane Eames (fl. 1990) is a probable duplicate of Jane Audrey Eames, not merged. The page gives Anita Beltran Chen's death as 2010, which looks like a typo for 2020. Pass 2 (all 25 archived RALU News issues, 2009–2018, each archived on datum.locker; manifest in the newsletters folder): 2 merges of newsletter-only records (Marcia Dilley, Shawn Perring) and 1 further merge (Henry Åkervall), 8 existing pages rewritten or enriched, 16 website-list pages given additive newsletter sections, 1 new academic stub (William Sears), 2 people stubs (David Kemp, Ian F. Dew), 2 organisation stubs (CURAC, TBIFAA), 'Retirees' Association of Lakehead University' expanded into the main organisation page (history, newsletter table with 25 datum.locker links, website, members memorialized) with 9 redirects for RALU name variants, 1 new category. Only about a dozen formal newsletter memorial notices exist (Morrison 2010, Chapin 2010, Dilley 2011, Bjorklund 2012, Wigmore 2012, Smith 2012, Perring 2015, Carmean 2018, plus the Oct 2017 editorial list); the rest of the work is enrichment. Uncertain: Cathy Chapin identity probable; Dusty/Tom Miller and Helen Elizabeth Smith only cross-linked as possible; Ken Morrison (fl. 1945) only possible. Cost $0, no Tavily, no Gemini.
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 25 items: done (100%).

Funeral-home obituary archives (crawl)

Original row ("Newspapers, forums and other community sources" table)

Source: Thunder Bay funeral-home obituary archives (Everest Funeral Chapel, Sargent & Son, Blake Funeral Home; the FrontRunner "Book of Memories" sites)
What it contains: Obituaries with photos and condolences. Sargent & Son's and Blake's 2025–26 obituaries are on Tribute Archive, which is not crawled (see the Tribute Archive row)
Where to get it: Everest; Sargent & Son; Blake
Period: to December 2024 (Sargent & Son, Blake); to present (Everest)
Privacy: Recent GATE
Status: ◐ Reserved / ongoing by WikiBot 4 (31 Oct 2026). Scope: archival crawl only, saving the full HTML, images, obituary text and condolences to Dropbox. No wiki pages are created from it; ingesting into person articles would be a separate task for the live obituary bot (WikiBot 3) if Michael wants it. Progress as of 30 Oct 21:05 Asia/Bangkok: Everest 940 obituaries, Sargent & Son 567, Blake 693; listings still being crawled.
Progress (2 Nov 2026): ongoing. 811 obituaries captured so far (Sargent & Son 257, Everest 312, Blake 242); about 6,235 still pending in the crawler (total listed: about 7,046, so about 12%).

Funeral-home obituaries, wiki ingestion

Original row ("Newspapers, forums and other community sources" table)

Source: Thunder Bay funeral-home obituaries, wiki ingestion (Sargent & Son, Everest, Blake), from the WikiBot 4 capture
What it contains: Extracted records (name, dates, relatives) from WikiBot 4's Datum Locker captures of the funeral-home obituary pages; each wiki page cites the datum.locker permalink
Where to get it: Dropbox /datumlocker/extracted_obituaries.json (grows while capture runs)
Period: to December 2024 (Sargent & Son, Blake); to present (Everest)
Privacy: Recent GATE
Status: WikiBot 3: reserved / ongoing (31 Oct 2026). Scope: funeral-home obituaries (Sargent, Everest, Blake) from WikiBot 4 capture, turned into person pages. Separate from WikiBot 4's archival-crawl row above.
Progress (2 Nov 2026): ongoing. 474 funeral-home obituary pages are on the wiki (Category:Funeral-home obituaries); the capture total is still growing, so 474 of 806 captured so far (59%).

Tribute Archive

Original row ("Newspapers, forums and other community sources" table)

Source: Tribute Archive
What it contains: Online obituaries with condolences and photos. Sargent & Son's and Blake Funeral Chapel's own sites list obituaries only up to December 2024; their 2025–26 obituaries appear to be hosted on Tribute Archive
Where to get it: Tribute Archive
Period: 2025–present
Privacy: Recent GATE
Status: ✘ Not being ingested (WikiBot 4, 2026-10-30). Its Terms of Use (section 3) forbid accessing or copying content "using any robot, spider, scraper, crawler or other automated means", and storing obituaries, without express written permission, and the site serves a Cloudflare bot challenge. It was left out of the funeral-home obituary archive for that reason. Ingesting it would need written permission from Tribute Archive or a manual route.
Progress (2 Nov 2026): not applicable (not being ingested).

Obituary compilation model (Deseronto Archives)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 4)

#: 4
Michael's idea: Obituary compilation as a model for other towns (Deseronto, 1968–78)
Link (from the notes): Deseronto Archives
Overlaps with: Obituary pilot
Status: Example only

Indigenous and fur-trade records (handle with care)

These records name Indigenous and Métis people. Check the community's wishes and archival access rules before publishing, and keep the post-1909 gate.

Robinson-Superior treaty annuity paylists (RG10)

Original row ("Indigenous and fur-trade records (handle with care)" table)

Source: Treaty annuity paylists (RG10), Robinson-Superior Treaty bands
What it contains: Per-year pay lists. Before 1893 mostly heads of family; from 1893 to 1951 all members; paylists after 1909 are restricted. Annotations record marriages, deaths and transfers. Finding aid 10-91 lists them by treaty^[60]
Where to get it: LAC Collection Search → finding aid 10-91; Héritage / Canadiana reels; beyondmowat.com (a volunteer index of other bands)
Period: 1851–1951
Privacy: Post-1909 GATE (Privacy Act)
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 of roughly 3,000 page images on the two Héritage reels (0%); also the 1895–1901 Archives of Ontario reels. See also the pre-1900 priority section.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 43)

#: 43
Michael's idea: Treaty annuity paylists (RG10) for the Robinson-Superior bands, 1893–1909 as the clean corpus; use annotations as linkage evidence
Link (from the notes): beyondmowat.com
Overlaps with: Paylists
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): No progress yet. See also the pre-1900 priority section.
Pre-1900 plan row: see the Source table on the Pre-1900 plan page (full row text kept there).

Métis genealogical databases

Original row ("Indigenous and fur-trade records (handle with care)" table)

Source: Métis genealogical databases
What it contains: Michael's list: Gail Morin's Métis database (65,434 records, Glenbow), Charles Denney Métis Genealogical Collection (Glenbow), Sprague and Frye's The Genealogy of the First Metis Nation, the Voyageur Contracts Database (about 35,900 contracts, 1714–1830, Société historique de Saint-Boniface), HBC Biographical Sheets (Archives of Manitoba)
Where to get it: Glenbow; Saint-Boniface; Archives of Manitoba
Period: 1714–1900
Privacy: Public (older)
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 of 65,434 Morin records and about 36,000 voyageur contracts (0%). See also the pre-1900 priority section.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 12)

#: 12
Michael's idea: Indigenous lists: Joan Holmes and Associates; Gail Morin's Métis database; Denney collection; Sprague and Frye; Voyageur Contracts; HBC Biographical Sheets
Link (from the notes): see Indigenous records
Overlaps with: Same
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): No progress yet. See also the pre-1900 priority section.

Jesuit mission records

Original row ("Indigenous and fur-trade records (handle with care)" table)

Source: Jesuit mission records
What it contains: Baptism and marriage records of the Catholic mission opened in 1848
Where to get it: Jesuit archives
Period: 1848–1900
Privacy: Public
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); the compilation covers thousands of people, total unknown. See also the pre-1900 priority section.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 13)

#: 13
Michael's idea: Jesuit baptism and marriage records after 1848
Link (from the notes): —
Overlaps with: Same
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): No progress yet. See also the pre-1900 priority section.
Pre-1900 plan row: see the Source table on the Pre-1900 plan page (full row text kept there).

Joan Holmes and Associates native lists; TBPL Indigenous genealogy guides

Original row ("Indigenous and fur-trade records (handle with care)" table)

Source: Joan Holmes and Associates native lists; Thunder Bay Public Library Indigenous genealogy guides
What it contains: Michael's idea; the library lists guides for researching Aboriginal ancestors in Ontario^[61]
Where to get it: Thunder Bay Public Library; Joan Holmes and Associates
Period: —
Privacy: GATE
Status: ☐
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 0 (not started); total unknown. See also the pre-1900 priority section.

Local history publications and other ingested sources

Papers and Records (Thunder Bay Historical Society), 1908–1927

Original row (Already ingested table)

Source: Papers and Records (Thunder Bay Historical Society)
Coverage: 1908–1927 volumes
Status: ◐ Partial
Notes: The 1908–09 volume was ingested earlier by Michael; the 1921 volume is next
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 3 volumes done (1908–09, 1909–10, 1921–28) of the 1908–1927 run; the number of volumes in the run was not counted, so no percent.

Original row (brainstorm table, item 30)

#: 30
Michael's idea: Papers and Records (Thunder Bay Historical Society), 1909–10 and 1921–28 volumes. The originally listed item is the 1909–1910 "Reports of Officers and Papers" (printed 1911), not 1921; the real 1921 volume is papers1921thunuoft (1921–28). Other volumes of the series are rows 46–51.
Link (from the notes): 1909–10, 1921–28
Overlaps with: Papers and Records (above); overlaps the 1917–24 volume (row 49) and the bound 1908–1921 set (row 50)
Status: ☑ WikiBot 2: done (31 Oct 2026). Both volumes ingested in the journal format: issue pages, about 45 article pages and about 130 person or entity edits, all under Papers of the Thunder Bay Historical Society (see its volumes table); deduped against the June 2026 Admin entries.
Progress (2 Nov 2026): done: 2 of 2 volumes (100%).

Papers 1908–09 (Thunder Bay Historical Society)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 46)

#: 46
Michael's idea: Papers 1908–09, Thunder Bay Historical Society (first volume)
Link (from the notes): archive.org (38 images)
Overlaps with: Papers and Records (row 30)
Status: ☐ (logged by WikiBot 2, 31 Oct 2026)

Papers 1911–12 (Thunder Bay Historical Society)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 47)

#: 47
Michael's idea: Papers 1911–12, Thunder Bay Historical Society
Link (from the notes): archive.org (58 images)
Overlaps with: Papers and Records (row 30)
Status: ☐ (logged by WikiBot 2, 31 Oct 2026)

Annual Report: Papers 1912–15 (Thunder Bay Historical Society)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 48)

#: 48
Michael's idea: Annual Report: Papers 1912–15, Thunder Bay Historical Society
Link (from the notes): archive.org (132 images)
Overlaps with: Papers and Records (row 30)
Status: ☐ (logged by WikiBot 2, 31 Oct 2026)

Annual Report: Papers 1917–24 (Thunder Bay Historical Society)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 49)

#: 49
Michael's idea: Annual Report: Papers 1917–24, Thunder Bay Historical Society (1921–24 overlaps row 30)
Link (from the notes): archive.org (252 images)
Overlaps with: Papers and Records (row 30)
Status: ☐ (logged by WikiBot 2, 31 Oct 2026)

Papers bound set 1908–1921 (Thunder Bay Historical Society)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 50)

#: 50
Michael's idea: Papers bound set 1908–1921, Thunder Bay Historical Society (duplicates rows 30 and 46–49; use to fill gaps)
Link (from the notes): archive.org (416 images)
Overlaps with: Papers and Records (row 30)
Status: ☐ (logged by WikiBot 2, 31 Oct 2026)

Papers and Reports, localhistory_2j and 2K scans

Original row (brainstorm table, item 51)

#: 51
Michael's idea: Papers / Reports, Thunder Bay Historical Society, the localhistory_2j*/2K* scans (2jc–2jl, 2KI–2KM; volumes not yet identified, check for duplicates of rows 30 and 46–50)
Link (from the notes): archive.org search
Overlaps with: Papers and Records (row 30)
Status: ☐ (logged by WikiBot 2, 31 Oct 2026)

Papers to 1967 and later volumes (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society)

Original row (Already ingested table)

Source: Papers and Records / Papers to 1967, four Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society publications: Papers to 1967 (centennial issue), vols. III (1975), V (1977) and XXV (1997) (owner: WikiBot)
Coverage: 1967, 1975, 1977, 1997
Status: ✔ Done (30 Oct 2026): four issue pages, a journal page Papers and Records (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society) and a page for each article (see Category:Papers and Records (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society)); people, places and organisations mentioned in the articles added to or created as pages. Relink pass (dense wikilinking of all article/issue pages + author stubs): ✔ done by WikiBot, 31 Oct 2026 (337 pages relinked, about 1,450 links added, 6 broken links repaired, 1 editor stub created: Beth Boegh).
Notes: Photographed by Michael and OCR'd; archived on datum.locker. Pages with unreadable OCR (vol. V pp. 26 and 30) were only partly captured, and research narratives (dive survey, shipwreck table, vessel table) are summarised, not transcribed. Other volumes (I–II, IV, VI–XXIV, XXVI–) are not yet ingested
Progress (2 Nov 2026): 4 of 4 listed volumes done (1967, 1975, 1977, 1997, 100%). Six more volumes are logged but not started (brainstorm items 46–51).

Thunder Bay BandWiki

Original row (Already ingested table)

Source: Thunder Bay BandWiki
Coverage: 2008–2014
Status: ✔ Done
Notes: Category:ThunderBay BandWiki
Progress (2 Nov 2026): imported as a whole: about 2,600 pages and 727 files in the category (complete as an import; no further total).

Algoma West (Walpole Roland, mining book)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 38)

#: 38
Michael's idea: Old mining book Algoma West: its mines, scenery and industrial resources (Walpole Roland)
Link (from the notes): archive.org
Overlaps with: Local history books
Status: ☐

Other datasets and tools from Michael's brainstorm

Canada History Knowledge Graph (GitHub)

Original row (brainstorm table, item 10)

#: 10
Michael's idea: Canada History Knowledge Graph (GitHub)
Link (from the notes): repository
Overlaps with: Tool / dataset for linking
Status: ☐

From Michael's brainstorm

This section breaks out the items in Michael's own notes file data to ingest.txt (kept in his Dropbox, "Curriepedia" folder, last saved 19 August 2026). The notes are Michael's ideas. Where an idea matches a researched source above, the Link column points to the same source. Entries are numbered so they can be ticked off.

Progress on these 51 items (2 Nov 2026): 3 done (items 25, 26 and 30), 1 pilot (item 40), 1 partly done (item 36), 41 not started (including the six logged Papers volumes, items 46–51), 5 unknown, example or reference only.

The 51 brainstorm items are now merged into the source sections above; each item appears under its source heading as an original row of the brainstorm table.

Map and display ideas (not sources)

Map layers. A map that can be filtered to churches, cemeteries, hospitals, rivers and historical rail routes. Michael's reasoning: for the "SimCity" view, rail and water routes are almost the only ways goods and people entered Thunder Bay. Cemeteries should carry GPS coordinates.
Road dates. When each road was created or named (item 34).

Entity-resolution and tooling notes in the file

These are design notes rather than sources. They are recorded here so they are not lost.

Not-the-same flag. Add a way to record that two sources are not the same person, or Michael's manual decision. Example from the notes: Alexander Matheson is not married to Theresa Matheson, and one of them never lived in Thunder Bay.
Rules-based checks. Use rules for hard conflicts (impossible marriages, dates, places) and a name-rarity score, because very unusual surnames help most. Count how many articles were assigned to more than one person, and how many same-name people have conflicting birthdays.
No-name babies. Decide who to group unnamed infants with.
Count check recorded in the notes. 335,282 persons from 465,617 linked person-events, 1.39 articles per person on average, 259,324 (77%) with a single article, about 7,937 display names (2.4%) split across more than one person.
Core feature. A pipeline that takes arbitrary documents, stores them in a sources and sources_data table, and lets a reader click a citation to open a graph or table of all sources for entity resolution. Test it with an image, a document and a web page. The datum.locker citation link is part of this.
Crawler. The existing crawler (queue modes create, enrich, both) is flawed. It needs better instrumentation and word-frequency scoring for names.
FamilySearch tie-in. Compare resolved entities with FamilySearch to see how many link up.
Skipped items. The file also holds unrelated personal notes (a command to clean a scratch folder and a block about dance forums). They are not Thunder Bay sources and were left out.

References

↑ Case's directory of Fort William, Port Arthur and district of Thunder Bay for 1894, Canadiana (oocihm.8_00475).
↑ Local History and Genealogy, Thunder Bay Public Library (FAQ: "Henderson Directories … between 1884–2004 … only available for in-branch use at Brodie").
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 ^3.6 Thunder Bay Museum Library catalogue (PDF), "Directories" section.
↑ Henderson's twin cities Fort William and Port Arthur directory – 1963, FamilySearch Library catalogue.
↑ Telephone – Port Arthur and Fort William, 1904–1911, Library and Archives Canada collection search.
↑ Directories, phonebooks and voters lists, Archives of Ontario.
↑ Voters lists, Library and Archives Canada (federal lists 1935–1988; some restricted).
↑ Canada, Voters Lists, 1935–1980, Ancestry.
↑ ^9.0 ^9.1 Search the Archives, City of Thunder Bay Archives.
↑ Property Assessment Records, Archives of Ontario research guide.
↑ Census records, Library and Archives Canada ("opened for public use after 92 years … up to 1931").
↑ 1921 Census of Canada, Ancestry.
↑ Birth, marriage and death registrations, Archives of Ontario.
↑ Ontario, Canada, Marriage Records, 1869–1927, FamilySearch.
↑ City of Thunder Bay Archives, History of Medicine and Medical Humanities directory (lists vital-statistics registers).
↑ Parish and related birth, marriage and death records, Library and Archives Canada (MG9-D7-37, microfilm M-2820 and M-2821).
↑ FamilySearch developer documentation (OAuth 2.0 for native apps).
↑ Riverside Cemetery and Crematorium, BillionGraves.
↑ Riverside Cemetery – Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Interment.net.
↑ ^20.0 ^20.1 Cemeteries, Ontario Genealogical Society, Thunder Bay District Branch (burial indexes by Gunnell, Nicholson and Coolen).
↑ Cemeteries, City of Thunder Bay.
↑ Mountain View / Saint Patrick Cemetery – Thunder Bay, BillionGraves.
↑ St. Andrew's Cemetery fonds 1878–1940, Thunder Bay Museum finding aid.
↑ Saint Andrew Cemetery – Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Interment.net.
↑ Cemeteries in Thunder Bay, Riverside Heights, Find a Grave.
↑ Thunder Bay (Riverside) Cemetery, Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
↑ Personnel records of the First World War, Library and Archives Canada.
↑ The Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada.
↑ Personnel records of the Second World War, Library and Archives Canada (files of survivors need an ATIP request).
↑ ^30.0 ^30.1 ^30.2 ^30.3 ^30.4 ^30.5 ^30.6 Archives, Thunder Bay Museum (lists business, community, personal and military fonds).
↑ Lakehead University collection, Internet Archive (e.g. lu1951, lu1956, lu1958).
↑ Digitized Yearbooks, Lakehead University Alumni.
↑ Yearbooks, Archives & Digital Collections at Lakehead University Library.
↑ "I have yearbooks Oracle from 1955-61…", Fort William Collegiate Institute alumni group (Facebook).
↑ Ft. William Collegiate Institute, Classmates.com (alumni names and years only; no yearbook scans seen).
↑ The Oracle 1933, Fort William Collegiate, AbeBooks listing.
↑ G 13 Port Arthur Collegiate Institute fonds, Thunder Bay Museum finding aid.
↑ P.A.C.I. Alumni, Facebook (private group).
↑ Digital Books Original, Hillcrest High Alumni Association (yearbooks 1963–2018 listed).
↑ St. Patrick Secondary School Alumni, AlumniClass.
↑ Canada, Selected School Yearbooks, 1901–2010, Ancestry (subscription). Coverage of specific Thunder Bay schools was not confirmed.
↑ Convocation, Archives & Digital Collections at Lakehead University Library.
↑ Faculty and Staff Directory, Lakehead University.
↑ About / History, Lappe Lutheran Church.
↑ Records of the Finnish Community, Archives at Lakehead (LibGuide); collection page.
↑ Aircrafter magazine – Rosies of the North (employee magazine and employee cards).
↑ Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, Wikipedia; inductees page, NWO Sports Hall of Fame (access to its archives is by appointment).
↑ Canadian Car and Foundry Company fonds, Thunder Bay Museum finding aid.
↑ Great Lakes Paper Company fonds, Thunder Bay Museum finding aid.
↑ Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company fonds, Thunder Bay Museum finding aid.
↑ Railway employees, Library and Archives Canada.
↑ About us, Friends of Grain Elevators; the Museum also holds Saskatchewan Wheat Pool elevator records.
↑ Historic Maps, City of Thunder Bay.
↑ Agendas and Minutes, City of Thunder Bay.
↑ City Archives, City of Thunder Bay.
↑ Official Recognition Awards, City of Thunder Bay (lists the ORC award-recipient bios PDFs for 2010–2024, the Good Citizen, Spirit of Thunder Bay and Youth awards, and the monthly Citizens of Outstanding Achievement awards). Read 2 Nov 2026.
↑ City of Thunder Bay eSCRIBE published meetings (agendas and minutes of council and committees; lists an "Official Recognition Committee"). Its robots.txt, read 2 Nov 2026, disallows only the PetalBot crawler.
↑ ^58.0 ^58.1 Local Indexes & Directories, Thunder Bay Public Library (index entries only; full text on microfilm at Brodie).
↑ Research in Archives (Thunder Bay, Canada, and Around the World), Lakehead University Library guide.
↑ Indian Affairs, Annuity Paylists, Héritage (Canadiana), microfilm reels C-7135 to C-7177 (partial run). The finding-aid number, the 1893 and 1909 dates and the annotation details are as stated in Michael's research notes and have not been independently checked.
↑ Local History and Genealogy, Thunder Bay Public Library ("Indigenous Genealogy Resources").

[case1894-1] Case's directory of Fort William, Port Arthur and district of Thunder Bay for 1894, Canadiana (oocihm.8_00475).

[tbpl-lh-2] Local History and Genealogy, Thunder Bay Public Library (FAQ: "Henderson Directories … between 1884–2004 … only available for in-branch use at Brodie").

[tbm-cat-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 ^3.6 Thunder Bay Museum Library catalogue (PDF), "Directories" section.

[fs1963-4] Henderson's twin cities Fort William and Port Arthur directory – 1963, FamilySearch Library catalogue.

[lac-tel-5] Telephone – Port Arthur and Fort William, 1904–1911, Library and Archives Canada collection search.

[ao-dir-6] Directories, phonebooks and voters lists, Archives of Ontario.

[lac-voters-7] Voters lists, Library and Archives Canada (federal lists 1935–1988; some restricted).

[anc-voters-8] Canada, Voters Lists, 1935–1980, Ancestry.

[city-arch-9] 9.0 ^9.1 Search the Archives, City of Thunder Bay Archives.

[ao-assess-10] Property Assessment Records, Archives of Ontario research guide.

[lac-census-11] Census records, Library and Archives Canada ("opened for public use after 92 years … up to 1931").

[anc-1921-12] 1921 Census of Canada, Ancestry.

[ao-bmd-13] Birth, marriage and death registrations, Archives of Ontario.

[fs-marr-14] Ontario, Canada, Marriage Records, 1869–1927, FamilySearch.

[med-arch-15] City of Thunder Bay Archives, History of Medicine and Medical Humanities directory (lists vital-statistics registers).

[lac-parish-16] Parish and related birth, marriage and death records, Library and Archives Canada (MG9-D7-37, microfilm M-2820 and M-2821).

[fs-api-17] FamilySearch developer documentation (OAuth 2.0 for native apps).

[bg-riv-18] Riverside Cemetery and Crematorium, BillionGraves.

[int-riv-19] Riverside Cemetery – Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Interment.net.

[ogs-cem-20] 20.0 ^20.1 Cemeteries, Ontario Genealogical Society, Thunder Bay District Branch (burial indexes by Gunnell, Nicholson and Coolen).

[city-cem-21] Cemeteries, City of Thunder Bay.

[bg-mv-22] Mountain View / Saint Patrick Cemetery – Thunder Bay, BillionGraves.

[tbm-standrew-23] St. Andrew's Cemetery fonds 1878–1940, Thunder Bay Museum finding aid.

[int-sa-24] Saint Andrew Cemetery – Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Interment.net.

[fag-25] Cemeteries in Thunder Bay, Riverside Heights, Find a Grave.

[cwgc-26] Thunder Bay (Riverside) Cemetery, Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

[lac-cef-27] Personnel records of the First World War, Library and Archives Canada.

[cvwm-28] The Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada.

[lac-ww2-29] Personnel records of the Second World War, Library and Archives Canada (files of survivors need an ATIP request).

[tbm-arch-30] 30.0 ^30.1 ^30.2 ^30.3 ^30.4 ^30.5 ^30.6 Archives, Thunder Bay Museum (lists business, community, personal and military fonds).

[ia-lu-31] Lakehead University collection, Internet Archive (e.g. lu1951, lu1956, lu1958).

[lu-alumni-32] Digitized Yearbooks, Lakehead University Alumni.

[lu-dc-33] Yearbooks, Archives & Digital Collections at Lakehead University Library.

[fb-fwci-34] "I have yearbooks Oracle from 1955-61…", Fort William Collegiate Institute alumni group (Facebook).

[cm-fwci-35] Ft. William Collegiate Institute, Classmates.com (alumni names and years only; no yearbook scans seen).

[abe-oracle-36] The Oracle 1933, Fort William Collegiate, AbeBooks listing.

[tbm-g13-37] G 13 Port Arthur Collegiate Institute fonds, Thunder Bay Museum finding aid.

[fb-paci-38] P.A.C.I. Alumni, Facebook (private group).

[hc-alum-39] Digital Books Original, Hillcrest High Alumni Association (yearbooks 1963–2018 listed).

[stpat-alum-40] St. Patrick Secondary School Alumni, AlumniClass.

[anc-yb-41] Canada, Selected School Yearbooks, 1901–2010, Ancestry (subscription). Coverage of specific Thunder Bay schools was not confirmed.

[lu-conv-42] Convocation, Archives & Digital Collections at Lakehead University Library.

[lu-dir-43] Faculty and Staff Directory, Lakehead University.

[lappe-44] About / History, Lappe Lutheran Church.

[lu-finn-45] Records of the Finnish Community, Archives at Lakehead (LibGuide); collection page.

[rosies-46] Aircrafter magazine – Rosies of the North (employee magazine and employee cards).

[nwosh-47] Northwestern Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, Wikipedia; inductees page, NWO Sports Hall of Fame (access to its archives is by appointment).

[tbm-cancar-48] Canadian Car and Foundry Company fonds, Thunder Bay Museum finding aid.

[tbm-glp-49] Great Lakes Paper Company fonds, Thunder Bay Museum finding aid.

[tbm-pas-50] Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company fonds, Thunder Bay Museum finding aid.

[lac-rail-51] Railway employees, Library and Archives Canada.

[foge-52] About us, Friends of Grain Elevators; the Museum also holds Saskatchewan Wheat Pool elevator records.

[city-maps-53] Historic Maps, City of Thunder Bay.

[city-agenda-54] Agendas and Minutes, City of Thunder Bay.

[city-arch2-55] City Archives, City of Thunder Bay.

[mun-tbcity-56] Official Recognition Awards, City of Thunder Bay (lists the ORC award-recipient bios PDFs for 2010–2024, the Good Citizen, Spirit of Thunder Bay and Youth awards, and the monthly Citizens of Outstanding Achievement awards). Read 2 Nov 2026.

[mun-escribe-57] City of Thunder Bay eSCRIBE published meetings (agendas and minutes of council and committees; lists an "Official Recognition Committee"). Its robots.txt, read 2 Nov 2026, disallows only the PetalBot crawler.

[tbpl-idx-58] 58.0 ^58.1 Local Indexes & Directories, Thunder Bay Public Library (index entries only; full text on microfilm at Brodie).

[lu-guide-59] Research in Archives (Thunder Bay, Canada, and Around the World), Lakehead University Library guide.

[paylists-60] Indian Affairs, Annuity Paylists, Héritage (Canadiana), microfilm reels C-7135 to C-7177 (partial run). The finding-aid number, the 1893 and 1909 dates and the annotation details are as stated in Michael's research notes and have not been independently checked.

[tbpl-ind-61] Local History and Genealogy, Thunder Bay Public Library ("Indigenous Genealogy Resources").

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