Thunder Bay Museum
The Thunder Bay Museum is located in Thunder Bay, Ontario. It is operated by The Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, incorporated in 1972 as the successor to the Thunder Bay Historical Society.
The Museum is affiliated with the Canadian Museums Association, the Canadian Heritage Information Network, the Ontario Historical Society, and Virtual Museum of Canada.
Thunder Bay connections: Fort William, Ontario; Thunder Bay Transit.
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Thunder Bay Museum material (October 2026)
On 26 October 2026 archival assistant Emma Hurley Warren (copying Michael deJong) shared the museum's material on Big Thunder and local skiing with Michael Currie. It included clippings from 1937 to 1998 and photographs, among them accessions 984.53.1018 (a 1939 Port Arthur Ski Club meet at Strathcona Heights, with Knute Hansen) and 984.80.575 (the Little Norway ski area in the mid-to-late 1960s). The museum offered TIFFs of photos chosen for publication.[1][2][3] The images are in Category:Thunder Bay Museum images; see Big Thunder: From the Thunder Bay Museum archives and History of skiing in Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Museum material.
References
- ↑ Warren, Emma Hurley (Archival Assistant, Thunder Bay Museum). Email to Michael Currie, "Re: Big Thunder", 26 October 2026, 8:18 PM Bangkok time (personal communication; Cc Michael deJong, curator). The email shared a Hightail folder, "Big Thunder Resources", of about 80 files: newspaper clippings from 1937 to 1998 and museum photographs.
- ↑ Thunder Bay Museum photographs 984.53.1018.a, .e, .h and .n, "1939 meet, Strathcona Heights, Port Arthur Ski Club", supplied by Emma Hurley Warren, email to Michael Currie, 26 October 2026 (personal communication).
- ↑ Thunder Bay Museum photographs 984.80.575B, D, F, R and U, Little Norway ski area, dated by the museum to about the mid-to-late 1960s, supplied by Emma Hurley Warren, email to Michael Currie, 26 October 2026 (personal communication).