Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Fort William

FORT WILLIAM, a city of Canada, in the Thunder Bay District, in the Province of Ontario. It is on the Kaministiquia river, at its entrance into Lake Superior. The city has excellent harbor facilities and carries on a large lake traffic. It is the head of lake navigation on Lake Superior and is the entrance of the wheat fields of western Canada. It has repair shops of the Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk Pacific, and Canadian Northern railroads. Its industries include flour mills, stove works, machine-shop, and car-wheel foundries, shipbuilding, brickyards, breweries, etc. The city has a large number of grain elevators. There is a number of fine public buildings including a city hall, a court house, hospitals, parks, a library, and a collegiate institute. Pop. (1920) about 20,000.