Ontario, Canada · North America
Thunder Bay is worth a stop: 10 minutes from Parkdale, 28km from Kakabeka Falls.
Thunder Bay is in Ontario, Canada, with about 110,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Parkdale, about 4 km away.
Thunder Bay is a city in and the seat of Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is the most populous municipality in Northwestern Ontario and the second most populous (after Greater Sudbury) municipality in Northern Ontario. Its population is 108,843 according to the 2021 Canadian census.
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the census metropolitan area of Thunder Bay has a population of 123,258. It consists of the city of Thunder Bay, the municipalities of Oliver Paipoonge and Neebing, the townships of Shuniah, Conmee, O'Connor, and Gillies, and the Fort William First Nation.
European settlement in the region began in the late 17th century with a French fur trading outpost on the banks of the Kaministiquia River. It grew into an important transportation hub with its port forming an important link in the shipping of grain and other products from western Canada, through the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence Seaway, to the east coast. Forestry and manufacturing played important roles in the city's economy. They have declined in recent years, but have been replaced by a "knowledge economy" based on medical research and education. Thunder Bay is the site of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute.
On 1 January 1970, the City of Thunder Bay was formed through the merger of the cities of Fort William, Port Arthur, and the geographic townships of Neebing and McIntyre. The city takes this name from the immense Thunder Bay at the head of Lake Superior, known on 18th-century French maps as Baie du Tonnerre (Bay of Thunder). The city is often referred to as the "Lakehead", or "Canadian Lakehead", because of its location at the end of Great Lakes navigation on the Canadian side of the border.
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Within an hour or so of Thunder Bay: Kakabeka Falls (28 km).
The nearest famous roads are Brockway Mountain Drive.
Thunder Bay is in Ontario, Canada, about 4 km from Parkdale.
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CAA roadside assistance: 1-800-222-4357. Winter tyres mandatory in Quebec December–March.
Full driving guide for Canada1 notable place within an hour's drive.
waterfall
Called the Niagara of the North, a 40-metre drop on the Kaministiquia River into a gorge cut by glacial meltwater, its shale walls holding fossils around 1.6 billion years old. Boardwalks flank both banks.
28 km · about 30 min drive
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