Thunder Bay

The Currie family's roots in Thunder Bay (formerly Port Arthur and Fort William) are surprisingly shallow, but if one goes back to the Parsons family - the family of the mother of Great Grandma Anna Currie - one finds many migrants, since it was they who engaged in the Great Parsons Migration to Port Arthur at the turn of the 19th century into the 20th.

Jack Currie's mother Anna Snook's parents were from Port Arthur, but it's not clear how far back their history in the town goes, although they were present at the time of Anna Snook's birth in 1892. Alex did marry Anna in Port Arthur in June 1914, however, and stayed long enough for Jack to be born there in June 1915. Soon after, he left, because his life as a station agent doesn't appear to involve any long stays in the town.

Jack Currie moved back to Port Arthur, bringing his young family, in 1954. However, his two older sons had moved away by the time they were at university in the 1970s. Only Jack's youngest son Ron stayed for the rest of his life. Jack and his wife Lucy did stay in Thunder Bay until their deaths in 2009 and 2003, respectively.

Ron's children Michael and Carolyn left town at 18 and 30, respectively.

Leaving aside our third cousins from the Parsons branch, this leaves only the ageing Ronald and his wife Mary Ann carrying the torch in the town Michael was raised in.

The only people born in Thunder Bay are Anna, Jack, and Carolyn.

The only one born AND raised in Thunder Bay is Carolyn.

Stays in Thunder Bay:

• George Snook 1892-1930 (from Salisbury, England)
• Anne Parsons 1892-1924 (from Newfoundland)
• Anna Snook 1893-1916 (born, but raised around Schreiber)
• Jack Currie 1915-1916, 1954 - 2009 (born, lived from age 39 onwards)
• Lucy Currie 1954 - 2003 (from age 36 onwards)
• Ronald Currie 1954 - present (from age 7 onwards)
• Mary Ann Currie ~1978 - present (from age 28 onwards)
• Bill Currie 1954 - 1965 (from ages 11 to 18)
• Doug Currie 1954 - 1968 (from ages 8 to 18)
• Michael Currie 1982 - 2001 (not born there, but from ages 0 to 19)
• Carolyn Currie 1985 - 2015 (born and raised, until 30)

The person from our family with the most years in Thunder Bay is Ronald Currie, with 64 years as of 2018.

True enterprising individuals who made the active choice to move to Thunder Bay, and didn't just descend from those who were already here:

• Sometime between 1900 and 1914: Alex Currie
• In 1893: George Snook & Anne Parsons
• In 1954: Jack Currie & Lucy Currie
• In 1977: Mary Ann Currie