Fort William was a provincial
electoral district
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in the
Canadian province
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of
Ontario
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, active from 1908 to 1999. The district was created out of the former
Fort William and Lake of the Woods
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district for the
1908 election, serving the city of
Fort William and the surrounding area.
When the city of Fort William merged with the neighbouring city of
Port Arthur in 1970 to create the current city of
Thunder Bay
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, the district of Fort William and the corresponding electoral district of
Port Arthur continued as separate districts serving the new city.
For the
1999 provincial election, the government of
Mike Harris
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redistributed provincial electoral districts to correspond to the same boundaries and names that were in use for the province's federal electoral districts. Fort William was merged at that time into the new district of
Thunder Bay—Atikokan.
Members of Provincial Parliament
Election results
References
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Former provincial electoral districts of Ontario
Politics of Thunder Bay