Mount McRae
Mount McRae is one of the Nor'Wester Mountains south of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Like Mount McKay, it is a mesa capped by Logan diabase over Animikie sedimentary rocks.[1][2]
The ski jumps of the Little Norway ski hill, later the Big Thunder Ski Jumping Center, were built on its north-east face. The site opened in 1963 and closed on 30 June 1996.[3][4]
See also
Thunder Bay Museum material (October 2026)
The Port Arthur News-Chronicle's 1963–64 reports on Little Norway place it south of Loch Lomond on the Scott Highway / Highway 61, "8 miles south" (or "west") of Fort William, consistent with Mount McRae. Clearing began in April 1963.[5][6][7] See Big Thunder: From the Thunder Bay Museum archives.
References
- ↑ "Nor'Wester Mountains". Wikipedia.
- ↑ Ontario Geological Survey (2011). 1:250 000 scale bedrock geology of Ontario, Miscellaneous Release–Data 126, Revision 1; queried by point through Macrostrat map_query API (bedrock unit and DEM elevation), 25 October 2026.
- ↑ "Big Thunder Ski Jumping Center". Wikipedia (drawing on Marion, J.-P., "Big Thunder frozen in time", Superior Outdoors, Winter 2009, pp. 26–30).
- ↑ "Big Thunder Ski Jumping Center, Thunder Bay". Ski Jumping Hill Archive (skisprungschanzen.com).
- ↑ Sports column ("A new ski resort is in the making..."). Port Arthur News-Chronicle, 29 August 1963; clipping from the Thunder Bay Museum archives, supplied by Emma Hurley Warren (archival assistant) in an email to Michael Currie, 26 October 2026 (personal communication). Scan.
- ↑ "'Little Norway' Progressing Well". Port Arthur News-Chronicle, 8 February 1964; clipping from the Thunder Bay Museum archives, supplied by Emma Hurley Warren (archival assistant) in an email to Michael Currie, 26 October 2026 (personal communication). Scan.
- ↑ Advertisement, "Skiing is great at Little Norway Ski Resort". Port Arthur News-Chronicle, 6 March 1964; clipping from the Thunder Bay Museum archives, supplied by Emma Hurley Warren (archival assistant) in an email to Michael Currie, 26 October 2026 (personal communication). Scan.
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