Built at the Canadian National Railway’s Transcona Shops in Winnipeg, Caboose 78175 served as an office and home for train crews for nearly 60 years. Gifted to the City of Thunder Bay after its retirement, ownership was transferred to the Thunder Bay Railway Historical Society in 2016. This volunteer group has since restored her to her glory days.

An innovative economic development project, 2,135 square metres (23,000 square feet) of this former Eaton’s store has been transformed into a modern urban marketplace that reveals the building’s underlying structure. Featuring local food and merchandise vendors and a large public common area, Goods & Co. Market serves as an integrated food and community hub, business incubator and art education facility.

Knox United Church began in 1909 as a small, wooden building on Shuniah Street. The current brick building was completed in 1949 and Crittall Hall added in 1963. On January 1, 2019, Knox United amalgamated with Current River United and became Harmony United Church, which is an appropriate name for the congregations given their love of music and singing.

This 0.8-hectare (two-acre) growing hot spot, developed by the Roots Community Food Centre, provides youth supportive employment, access to fresh food, and opportunities to build community connections. The SHOW program teaches agricultural skills and how to market the farm’s produce (seasonal crops, fruit and honey). The site also includes 48 community garden plots for individuals to grow their own vegetables.

In 2015, this dairy’s first batches of milk and yogurt were produced from their new facility in Neebing. The 55 milking cows, fed using crops grown on the farm, produce approximately 1,400 litres (370 gallons) of milk daily. Come and learn about products sold in glass bottles and the closest you’ll get to raw milk in its most natural state.

This quaint clapboard church was established by the Jesuits with Reverend P.G.S. Lebel first conducting its services. Built in 1915, many of its local parishioners contributed to the construction. The church’s three sections represent Father, Son and the Holy Spirit. Today, St. Benedict’s forms part of Holy Family Parish. Mass is celebrated here on the third Sunday of each month.

Stanley Hill Bison is a small family-run bison farm located in Kakabeka Falls, near Thunder Bay. Established in 2016, they ensure that they have a happy herd through quality hay and pasture. Locally sourced oats are also supplemented when needed. Come and visit and see how they strive toward providing the highest-quality products using family farming values and techniques.

This building shares the story of Norman Paterson, whose pursuits in the grain-trade industry brought him to Fort William in 1908. Paterson’s successes saw this property develop from a small building, wooden grain elevator, workhouse and dock into the headquarters of a vast grain-handling and steamship firm. Now home to TBT Engineering, restoration and preservation of this site continues.

Built as Fort William’s police station and courthouse, the Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society opened its major exhibit gallery here in 1997. Visit the Thunder Bay Museum during Doors Open Thunder Bay 2022 for back-of-house artifact collection storage tours, artifact displays on the early foodways and agricultural development in the area, as well as a museum-wide family-friendly scavenger hunt.