Operating from an industrial base south of Fort William’s downtown, the Copp Stove Company was the Lakehead’s foremost foundry and manufacturer of kitchen equipment in the early twentieth century. William J. Copp was an English industrialist who moved to the Province of Canada in 1842. Settling in Hamilton, Copp turned to the trade of manufacturing … Read more
A drink cup with a half moon shape inside. This ledge allowed the person to drink but also serve as a guard to keep the moustache nice and dry. It was invented in the 1860s by a British potter named Harvey Adams. From 1860 to 1916, the British military required its soldiers to have … Read more
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Move through time as you walk down our streetscape past Dr. Smellie’s surgery. Dr. Smellie was another of Thunder Bay’s most prominent citizens. As early as the 1880s, he traveled the district by rail caring for patients in lumber and railway camps and mines. He also acted for years as Fort William’s Medical Officer of … Read more
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The Thunder Bay Museum acknowledges the original custodians of this land and pay our respect to the elders – past, present, and future – for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture, and the hopes of Indigenous Peoples. We would also like to recognize that the Thunder Bay Museum is on the traditional land of the Fort William First Nation signatory to the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850, and to acknowledge the role of the Métis Settlement in the development of our community.
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