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Article: Oliver Paipoonge.(COMMUNITIES OF THE NORTH)(cities and towns in Thunder Bay, Ontario)(County overview)
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- Northern Ontario Business
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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The "Open for Business" sign still hangs out at the Municipality of Oliver Paipoonge.
The rural community of 5,700 on the outskirts of Thunder Bay has been known as a bedroom suburb. The amalgamated municipality, west of the city, was established in 1998 comprising the villages of Kakabeka Falls, Murillo and Rosslyn.
Agriculture has always been the mainstay of business in the Slate River area with a diversified mix of family farms producing beef, dairy and pork, as well as other services like greenhouses, cheese, fertilizer and soybean roasting.
Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park has always been a big tourism draw. But a rew municipal Official Plan ...