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Every man has two deaths, when he is buried in the ground and the last time someone says his name. In some ways men can be immortal.
— Ernest Hemingway
Welcome to Curriepedia: a compendium of information on people, places, and things, written by Michael B. Currie and several other contributors.
Curriepedia has documented 91 of an estimated 244,000 people who have lived in Thunder Bay since 7500 BCE — about 0.037%. View all Thunder Bay people
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Upcoming Birthdays
| Date | Person | Age |
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| June 05 | David Harold Newman | turning 89 |
| June 05 | Sean Hermiston | turning 56 |
| June 06 | Joel Luet | turning 69 |
| June 08 | Michael B. Currie | turning 44 |
| June 08 | Ruth Reeves† | would have turned 114 |
| June 09 | John Jay Carrick† | would have turned 88 |
| June 10 | Jack Currie† | would have turned 111 |
| June 11 | Nadine Kampen | turning 70 |
| June 12 | Betty Coulter† | would have turned 108 |
| June 13 | Marie Coulter† | would have turned 102 |
| June 14 | Bruce Currie† | would have turned 67 |
| June 16 | Colton Carrick | turning 32 |
| June 16 | Kelly Carrick | turning 32 |
| June 17 | Jean Currie† | would have turned 105 |
| June 18 | Cody Townend | turning 30 |
| June 19 | Grace McDonald† | would have turned 119 |
| June 19 | Kit Bjornson | turning 62 |
Last updated: 05 June 2026
Days-Alive Milestones
| Person | Milestone | Date |
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| Sandra Kenzie | 30,000 days alive | September 24, 2026 (in 111 days) |
Last updated: 05 June 2026
Purpose
This website is another vain attempt to preserve information longitudinally, a task which has always been a low priority for any civilization:
What makes Encyclopedia-style articles so fascinating is how they look at subjects normally seen only in a snapshot at their present moment, and instead provide perspective by showing a little bit of information, the most salient information, spread over their whole lives. So instead of a LOT of information about the present moment, instead you get a nice even amount of information across their whole lives. Which creates a perspective that cannot easily be seen otherwise. It shows a more whole perspective, by showing the dimension of time. Another reason to do genealogy is to become habituated to the broad sweep of a human life and therefore become better at planning and thinking in one's own life. By studying one's own ancestors and seeing the mistakes they made, it's possible to contextualize events in your own life not as singular, special things but as variations on a theme established by dozens of your forebears.
— Michael B. Currie, October 2019
Newest Articles
Read, from Curriepedia's newest articles; or its longest ones. Some highlights:
- Three of Thunder Bay's seven "elite" Dance Studios were founded by students of the second matriarch of Thunder Bay elite dance training, Sylvia Horn. Who was the first?
- J.J. Carrick introduced Daylight Savings Time while he serving as Mayor of Port Arthur in 1908, making it the first jurisdiction anywhere in the world to use it.
- South Hill Street, Thunder Bay is 1.6 kilometres long and is the address for about 152 detached homes.
- Clyde Currie has at least 25 step-descendants through his children Marilyn and Allan.
- Ruth Newman won the top prize for her Royal Conservatory piano examination in 1941.
- Neill Currie's bomber's nose was shattered on 27 September 1944, over Germany.
- Sir Arthur Currie is not closely related to Michael B. Currie.
- The First Millennial Foundation, a non-profit utopian movement to create space colonies, was one of the first organizations to coordinate its activites over the World Wide Web?
Contributing
Due to spam, Curriepedia does not allow anonymous edits nor does it allow accounts to be created. The administrator has to create an account for you and email you the credentials.
If you would like to contribute, please email Michael using the first initial of his first name, followed by his last name, followed by the at sign, followed by "gmail.com", to obtain your own editor account.
Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.
Similar efforts
[1] William Addams Reitwiesner, who got a job as a cart-pusher at the library of congress to pursue his hobby of genealogy, and who published the biographies of thousands of royals, and others, before dying of cancer at age 56 in 2010.