Some places are defined by the people who go through them. In Thunder Bay, they came for centuries: Voygeurs wanders from Lake Superior boats, traders who pull fur to the coast, and a young man named Terry Fox running in history on one good leg. Here on the edge of the largest lake in the world, it leaves each journey its fingerprint.
Terry Fox and Marathon Hope
If you are an American in 1980, you will probably remember the miracle on the ice, when the American hockey team stunned the world of the world of the defeat of the Soviet team experienced in the Winter Lake Olympics. In the same year, another young athlete captured hearts in a much longer stadium.
In April 1980, 21 -year -old Terry Fox set out in the hope marathon, where he was running throughout Canada to raise money and awareness of cancer research on one leg. Over the course of 143 days, 3339 miles from the Atlantic Coast to the Bay of Thunder, Ontario, were covered to become the youngest companion of Canada and won the Lu Marsh Prize as the best athlete in the country. His career here ended on September 1, when cancer returned. Seven months later, he went.
Today, Terry Fox erected the place where his journey stopped. But for travelers, Bay Thunder is often where flights begin. She floats at the head of Superior Lake, this northern focus has been painted for centuries, and its landscapes formed for a billion years, and its stories that are transported forward by wind, water and people who call it home.
One billion years in making
A billion years before reaching these beaches, molten rocks pushed the surface, creating copper, silver and scratching, as well as amazing geological formations such as dams and shows. During the Ice Age, the iceotilities carved the Sobirior Lake Sink and the open division of Ouimet Canyon, leaving behind a rare plant time capsule – the air flowers flourish 600 miles south of its closest relatives.
Visitors can see the valley of scenic Lookouts in the boycott of the boycott of the boycott or head to the nearby Eagle Canyon to cross the longest suspended bridge in Canada or the longest compressed line in the country. A few miles away, Al -Jammat calls for the fishermen’s treasures to search in purple crystals born from this old volcanic past.
Sleep giant Ojibway
Hence, the Sibley Peninsula extends 32 miles in Superior Lake, and ends with a famous silhouette of the giant sleep. This series of tall mesas, which was formed by the erosion of Diabase, Hanters Thunder Bay’s Harbour. Storms are frequented by its slopes once the name of the city.
According to Ajibaway myths, the giant is nanabijou, a charitable god who talent the people of Ojibway, the sacred silver vein. When Sioux sought to claim this, they sent a scout that betrayed the secret to white merchants. In anger, Nanabijou summoned a storm to flood the infiltrators, then lied across the Gulf to guard the silver for eternity.
Today, climbing to the giant head is the highest classification in the region, and is attached to the northern forests before approximately 1,000 feet ascended to panoramic views of the Superior Lake. On a shorter trip, SEA Lion Trail offers a back and forth journey less than Millon to a natural stone arc with giant views of the water. Even unlimited pilgrims make a 150 -year -old silver island store for fresh treatments and tea. Once a part of a mine that resulted in $ 3.25 million of silver, it is now a favorite station on the Lake Superior Serkel tour.
From fur to live history
In the early nineteenth century, Thunder Bay was a center for fur trade. Fort William, who was the largest fur trading function in the world, is now as one of the leading living museums in Canada. The translators are performing fashion in 1815, and they show how the goods were made from the depths of the Canadian interior, their way east through the Great Lakes. The guides also participate in how Ojibway trades from copper from this region to the far south so far, centuries from the arrival of the Europeans.
Falls chase
Just 20 minutes from the fort, the thunder kakabica falls 130 feet in a corridor. Known as “Niagara of the North”, it was one day a huge obstacle to the nozzle. Today, Boardwalks provides unlawful access to overwhelming views.
Less than an hour later, the Pigeon River Provincial Park represents the borders that the United States and Canada are compatible with 120 feet Hi Falls. Adventures can see waterfalls at a height of 100 feet in one day, and with a passport, they rise in two countries before sunset.
A place where history and nature converge
Thunder Bay’s story engraved with stone, whispering in the legend, and it was immortalized in the footsteps of those who traveled here-whether in Berberchak boats, on an artificial leg or in long-distance walking shoes. It is a place where history and nature meets, and it inspires new generations to explore, carry and dream.
Hello! We are Jin and Ed Coleman, nicknamed Coleman Conserge. In short, we are a Gen X couple whose Huntsville is sharing our stories about amazing adventures through the transformational and experimental travel that depends on the activity.
