Local: Thunder Bay History - Gaining Cultural Diversity
Along with the growing industries came immigrants from all over the world. The forestry
industry was a special attraction for the Finnish. This is noticeable today with the
omnipresent saunas, the shops of Little Finland on Bay Street and the prevalence of
nordic-style skiing, Thunder Bay boasts one of the largest settlements of Finnish
people outside of Finland.
Other ethnic groups, including large numbers of Poles, Italians, and
Ukranians, settled close to the factories and dockyards, creating
early working class settlements around the communities now known as "West
Fort William" and the "East End".
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