Thunder Bay
geographical nameDefinition of Thunder Bay
city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, on Lake Superior population 108,359
Note: The city of Thunder Bay was formed in 1970 by consolidating the city of Fort William, which was originally a French fur-trading post in the 17th century, and the city of Port Arthur , which was a silver-mining town in the middle of the 19th century.
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