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Article: Thunder Bay: from rivalry to unity.
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- Labour/Le Travail
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Canadian Committee on Labour History. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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(Thunder Bay, ON: The Thunder Bay Museum Historical Society 1995).
LOCAL HISTORY has never developed as a mature field of academic historiography in Canada. The finely grained sensitivity to place in all its peculiarities that is the strength of the antiquarian has not often meshed well with the academic pursuit of larger patterns and paradigms of interpretation. Too often, as in the case of Tronrud and Epp's Thunder Bay, the well-known and broader contours of national and international history are employed to organize the abundant facts and events of local life. Thunder Bay does this very well, and the Museum Historical Society can take pride in publishing a ...