Talk:Fort William, Ontario

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There was a programme titled "Highland Empire" recently (2007-05-20) on the BBC that centres around Fort William's role in the history of Canada, the North West and Hudson Bay companies and the history of the "métis", and the involvement of Scots emigrees in the history of Canada. Director Mark Littlewood, produced for BBC Scotland by Pelicula Films Ltd, 2007. With the BBC's increasing moves to open it's archives for public use, there is an increasing chance of this programme becoming generally available.

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Removed Military History tag as this article is about the town/city, not an actual military installation.

Clean up and Clarification
This article is supposed to be about a former city, yet there is information about the area/neighborhoods/demographics after this city was dissolved/amalgamated. Please change the article to reflect the former municipality of Fort William prior to the dissolution and formation of Thunder Bay. See the Port Arthur, Ontario article for what this article should be ... all current info and stats should be in the Thunder Bay article with this one focusing only on the history of the former city.

Eja2k (talk) 22:56, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
 * This article is about the area known as Fort William, dispite the two cities being amalgamated they are still treated by most residents as seperate, which is why this article is written the way it is. It is talking both about what it was before the cities merged and what it still is now. They actually used to be seperate articles but the result of a merge discussion forced the merge as most considered the information just a continuation of the history of the same subject. -DJSasso (talk) 03:18, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

It would probably be best if this was similar to the Port Arthur article - completely historic in nature - and then a neighbourhood article based on the current divisions would be more suited for current demographics (ie articles for Northwood, Neebing, Westfort, Current River etc.) The fact that this article presents itself as that of a former and dissolved municipality with current demographics and current info is confusing and creates contradiction.

More over, the introduction focuses and shifts the focus from the former Fort William which encompassed everything from intercity to the Indian reserve and out past the airport and makes it appear to the reader that Fort William was only ever considered "Downtown" ... The fact is the municipality no longer exists and it is no longer an official geographic boundary. Current info should be merged into the Thunder Bay article in a Thunder Bay South heading, OR separate articles as i mentioned above should be created to reflect the current neighbourhoods/ward boundaries in use.

Eja2k (talk) 05:15, 8 October 2009 (UTC)


 * I tried to point this conflict out in the merge discussions but some editors can't not have their way so I gave up. It was like the Port Arthur article, and it should have remained that way. Also, the former Fort William didn't include the airport, it was in the former political township of Neebing.  vıd ıoman  17:46, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I would say demerge it if you want Vidioman. I forget where the merge talk was and on the talk page of the Downtown, Fort William redirect it was only a couple people complaining. So I don't know i there is a strong concensus. -DJSasso (talk) 19:08, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Nevermind I did it. -DJSasso (talk) 19:15, 8 October 2009 (UTC)