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Thornley Christiansen was a brave young man. At 16 he joined the merchant navy. From 1942 on he crossed the north Atlantic 26 times in convoys, dodging German submarines, airplanes and Mother Nature. “It was a terrible place the North Atlantic.

Officials with the Travelodge Hotel chain are getting ready to re-open parts of their hotel on Memorial Avenue, following a major fire there last month. The early-morning blaze broke out on Oct. 22.

Winter may be officially six weeks away, but Jack Frost paid Thunder Bay an early call on Friday, dumping enough snow on the city to colour many of its lawns white.

Ken MacAskill says he dreams of a day when Remembrance Day is not necessary.

Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. is hosting an open house on Monday, a requirement as part of the environmental assessment needed to proceed with a chromite mine in the Ring of Fire.

Some students graduating from Confederation College might have to wait for the technology at their job to catch up with them.

A 9,000-year-old archaeological site is now ready to become a new stretch of four-lane highway in Northwestern Ontario.

There is support in principle for a local art gallery should it choose to move to the waterfront.

Dick O’Donnell hopes to bust some myths about senior drivers. The 74-year-old is a participant in a five-year study that tracks the driving patterns of Canadian seniors in order to ensure safety on the road.

As the Germans began to run roughshod over his native Poland, Edward Jakubowski was given a choice. He could either join the Soviet army and fight for the communists, or be sent to a Russian labour camp.