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Just North Enough to be Perfect!
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18 years old
Canada
Last Login: 5/24/2007
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| General | North Bay is more economically diverse than many other Northern Ontario communities, although a large percentage of the city's jobs are public sector in nature with education and government dominating the list of the city's top employers.
The service industry, tourism, and transportation also play a significant role in the city's economy.
In recent years the city has gained prominence as a hub of arts and culture in Ontario, due to its vibrant community of artists, musicians, actors and writers. In 2004, the TV Ontario program Studio 2 selected North Bay as being one of the top 3 most artistically talented communities in the province.
North Bay enjoys referring to itself in the third person and is interested in waterfront development.
| | Music | High Holy Days, Jaymz Bee, Bobby Gimby | | Television | 2 - CFGC-2, Global
4 - CBLT-4, CBC (formerly CHNB)
6 - CICA-6, TVOntario
7 - CBLFT-1, SRC
10 - CKNY, CTV
32 - CHCH-6, CH
Cable 12 - Cogeco Cable community channel | | Heroes | Lynn Johnston, Roy Thomson |
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| Status: | Single | | Zodiac Sign: | Capricorn |
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In 1882, John Ferguson decided that the north bay of Lake Nipissing was a promising spot for settlement. North Bay was incorporated as a town in 1891. The first mayor was John Bourke. More importantly, Bourke developed the western portion of North Bay after purchasing the interest of the Murray Brothers from Pembroke who were large landholders in the new community. The land west of Klock Avenue (Algonquin Avenue) was known as the Murray block. Bourke Street is named after John Bourke. Murray Street is named after the Murrays.
North Bay is known as a railway town. Besides the CPR, the town became the terminus of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway in 1902 when the Ross government took the bold move to establish a development road to serve the Haileybury settlement. During construction of the T&NO silver was discovered at Cobalt and started a mining frenzy in the northland that continued for many years. The current Canadian National Railway carved its way through the centre of North Bay in 1913.
The Georgian Bay Canal was a mammoth transportation system that proposed to connect the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. The entire passageway from the Ottawa River to Lake Nipissing and down the French River to Georgian Bay was surveyed, mapped and ready to go in the first decade of the 20th century. Financing became the giant hurdle and as time passed, transportation patterns changed and interfered with the earlier practicality of the giant venture. Despite this, there were groups who still hoped it would happen as late as 1930.
North Bay grew through a strong lumbering sector, mining and the three railways in the early days. The town benefited from strong community leadership and people like Richardson, Milne, McNamara, Browning, McDougal, Carruthers, McGaughey, George W Lee, Senator Gordon, T J Patton, Charlie Harrison, and many others are responsible for its development. In 1919, John Ferguson was elected mayor of North Bay and continued to serve as mayor until 1922. North Bay was incorporated as a city in August 1925.
The Dionne Quintuplets were born in Corbeil, Ontario, on the outskirts of North Bay in 1934. This miraculous birth had a tremendous impact on tourism in the area. In fact, the Dionnes may have saved the economy in the district during the Depression and beyond. North Bay and area lived off this legacy well into the 1960s. Many visitors to the area discovered lakes and summer retreats that were easily accessible and the businesses thrived on the tourist dollars.
In January 1968 the City of North Bay amalgamated with West Ferris and Widdifield townships.
The current engines driving North Bay's economy are the vast university and college population, the hospitals (awaiting construction of a modern new district hospital, which has experienced delays), a military installation at the airport, tourism, and a stable provincial government service centre.
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