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 CP Freight Shed, CP Dock, and CN Docks

Title: Opening of Navigation - Grain Fleet Leaving Port Arthur Harbour
Image Type:  Photograph
Caption: "Copyright Canada 1912 By J.F. Cooke No 2. Opening of Navigation at Port Arthur May 2, 1912, 7 pm. 20 boats carrying 5,000,000 Bsl of wheat. Sailing by Channel cut through the ice fields by Ice Breaker Jas. Whalen and showing 2 600 ft boats in the distance." 
Creator: J.F. Cooke
Date Taken:  May 2, 1912
Image Description: Twenty boats carrying 5,000,000 BSL of wheat sailing by channel cut through the ice fields by Ice Breaker and Tug Boat James Whalen [now moored at Kaministiquia Heritage Park] and showing 2  600 ft. boats in the distance, Canadian Pacific freight office in the foreground, [C.N.R. freight sheds at right], C.P.R. freight shed on left, sign reading "A. Ross & Co."
Physical Location: Port Arthur Harbour behind the Canadian Northern Railway Station
Description Reference: City of Thunder Bay Archives
Image Location: P005
City of Thunder Bay Series Number: 128
Accession Number: 1991-01-184

Canadian Northern Railway Docks
 
Title:  Port Arthur's Docks and C.N.R. Station
Creator: Lovelady
Image Type:  Photograph
Date Taken:  1945
Image Description:  This is an image of Port Arthur's Docks and the Canadian Northern Railway Station. Several generations of docks and wharves occupied this site for over a century. This area was an industrial and commercial hub for the city of Port Arthur.
Physical Location: Behind the Canadian Northern Railway Depot. Note how close the water is to the CNR Station.
Description Reference: Thunder Bay Public Library
Image Location: P49
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