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The Northern Ontario Pastoral Institute was a nonprofit organization, providing clinical pastoral education in Northwestern Ontario. The Institute was established in 1990 and dissolved in 2025. During that time, it co-ordinated and supported opportunities for pastoral education in Thunder Bay and around the region. The Institute was a member organization of the Canadian Association for Pastoral Practice and Education, which later became the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care.

The Canadian Injured Workers Alliance (CIWA) was founded in 1990. The CIWA was formed as an umbrella organization of injured workers groups.

In 1989, a conference brought injured workers groups from across Canada together; this led to the creation of CIWA. These groups included Injured Workers Consultants (Toronto,) United Steelworkers of America, Thunder Bay and District Injured Workers Support Group, and Disabled Forestry Workers of B.C. In 1990, injured workers advocates, including Steve Mantis and Wolfgang Zimmermann, organized the National Conference on Re-Employment of Injured Workers in Ottawa and created CIWA.

CIWA supports local organizing and local groups, and works nationally and beyond to educate workers and the public, protect workers' safety rights, and right to return to safe work.

Sources

• CIWA. Our History. https://www.ciwa.ca/our-history/
• Lakehead University. Canadian Injured Workers Alliance fonds. https://archives.lakeheadu.ca/index.php/canadian-injured-workers-alliance-fonds-2
• Wikipedia. Canadian Injured Workers Alliance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Injured_Workers_Alliance

A credit union operating in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Initially founded 1946 as the People’s Co-operative Credit Union Limited to serve the Finnish-speaking population of Port Arthur. Name changed to Bay Credit Union in 1975.

Abitibi Provincial Paper Mill Employees’ Credit Union Limited was founded in 1951. This became Apple Community Credit Union in 1998, while also opening services to the broader community. Apple Community Credit Union merged with Bay Credit Union in 2014.

The credit union is owned by members and governed by a board.

C.D. Howe trained as an engineer, and was responsible for building many grain elevators across western Canada, but is best remembered for being the Liberal MP for Port Arthur and serving in federal Cabinet from 1935 to 1957. Often known as the "Minister of Everything," from his role in shaping production and the Canadian economy during WWII.

Dr. Albert E. Allen was a pathologist from Fort William. He was born in Hampton, Ontario. He graduated with a bachelors of biology from Victoria College in Toronto in 1929, and went on to obtain a doctoral degree in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1932. He worked at McGill University before accepting a position as Director of Pathology for the Ontario Health Regional Laboratory in Fort William in 1943. He was also the pathologist for St. Joseph’s Hospital until 1950, and for McKellar General Hospital until 1954.

Dr. Allen was known for his extensive knowledge of natural history. He was a contributor to many natural history publications, and was an avid outdoorsman. He was a founding member of the Toronto Ornithological Club; a trustee of the Ontario Waterfowl Research Federation; a member on the advisory board of the Lakehead Region Conservation Authority, a member of the Minnesota Ornithological Union; and was a president of the Thunder Bay Field Naturalists from 1943-47, and 1951-53. Dr. Allen was an avid bird watcher and regularly recorded notes of his observations. He also kept journals related to his activities on the study of nature, and of local events. Dr. Allen passed away in 1966 at the age of 60.

Marshall MacDougall Dean was born to parents Marshall Blanchard and Lottie Louise (Macdougall) in Fort William in 1916, and died in 2000 in Toronto. Marshall had three siblings, Blanchard, Allan and Noble, all of whom died as infants.

Marshall Macdougall Dean was 10 years old when his father died, and his mother, Lottie, died in 1933 when he was 17 years old. He became a personal administrator and worked for the Canadian Coast Guard. Residing much of his life in Toronto, Marshall Macdougall remained unmarried. His personal passion for genealogical research led him to research and write a book, "The Deans of Hamilton Township: A Genealogical History," and he become actively involved with the Society of Mayflower Descendants and The Canadian Society of Mayflower Descendants.

Alexander Phillips was born in Milton, Ontario, and spent most of his life in Northwestern Ontario. He began his working life as a journalist: particularly writing for the Fort William Times-Journal, and becoming its News Editor in 1939. He also wrote as a correspondent for TIME and other national and international magazines and newspapers. He continued to write articles and columns throughout the second half of his career with the Northwestern Ontario Development Association/Northwestern Ontario Development Council.

Phillips began his work as General Manager of the Northwestern Ontario Development Association in 1955, and continued with that organization until its dissolution at the end of 1972. As General Manager, he supported local business and industry through advocacy and information sharing, and advocated for Northwestern Ontario at provincial and national stages.

Records of his other activities are integrated through the records of the Northwestern Ontario Development Association. These include his writing, and work with other organizations such as: the Lake Superior International Highway Association; the Mississippi River Parkway Commission; the Ontario Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Foundation; the Quetico Centre; the Quetico Provincial Park Advisory Committee; the Thunder Bay Press Club; and the Twin City Gas Division of Northern and Central Gas Corporation.

He enjoyed a long marriage to Lillian, and had two daughters and one son.

Moira Davidson worked as a Librarian at Lakehead University, with responsibility for Technical Services. She was also active in the Lakehead University Faculty Association. She retired from Lakehead in 2021.

Lottie Louise (Macdougall) Dean was born in Markdale in 1881, to parents Magistrate Allan Macdougall and Catherine MacDonald Macdougall. She married Marshall Blanchard Pulaski Corban Hall Dean in 1906 in Fort William and had four children, Blanchard, Marshall, Allan, and Noble. Three of the boys died as infants; only Marshall Macdougall Dean survived her. Lottie died in Fort William in 1933, 7 years after her husband's death.

Noble Benjamin Hall Dean was born in Hamilton Township in 1840 to parents Samuel Corban Dean and Eliza Hall (Kelly) Dean, and died in Brighton in 1912. He had seven siblings: Adolphus, Marcus, Markland, Smith, Anna, Albert, and Marshall. Noble was married to Mary Ann Ferris and had two children, Marshall and Elizabeth (Lizzie), and later married Theresa Montgomery and had one child, Keith. All children were born in Brighton.

Noble became a doctor and had a practice in Beaverton, before serving as Surgeon in Chief at Fort Strong in the American Civil War. He later had a medical practice in Brighton for over forty years and was active in the community. Dr. Dean’s home and office was located on Younge Street in downtown Brighton.

Keith Cornelius Dean was born to parents Noble Benjamin Hall Dean and Theresa Montgomery Dean in Brighton in 1889. Keith attended Queen’s University, worked on the railway in western Canada, and served in WWI as a medical officer. Also attending the University of Manitoba, Keith was granted the Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery by Queen's, and had a longstanding home and medical practice at 99 Argyle Street in Caledonia. Keith married Olive Idella Shourds in 1918, and had five children - Elizabeth, Noble Benjamin Hall, Keith Cleaver Weston, Luther Allyn, and Malcolm Hewlin. Keith died in Hamilton in 1966.