The Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History

A collection of materials about the history of Northwestern Ontario are available at the Gateway to Northwestern Ontario History, http://www.nextlibrary.com/tbpl/home.html .

After you get past the "Do you want English or French?" splash page, you'll get to a main page that's divided into several sections, including History, Mystery, and Links. On the left frame of the page you'll see a listing of over 1,000 photographs in alphabetical order, which is one of the design-nerviest things I've ever seen. Since it was all text it didn't add a lot to load time.

If you don't want to browse over 1,000 photographs in alphabetical order with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each -- waitwaitwait. Sorry. There are no circles. There are no arrows. There are no paragraphs on the back of each one. Instead there is a search engine at the top if you don't want to browse the photographs. Pictures include a 1914 picnic, mines, railroad cars, and aerial views. Photographs open in the main frame and include a decent-sized copy of the photograph and a variety of information about it.

On to the other sections. The history tab includes a brief history of Thunder Bay. Mysteries provides a list of 38 mystery photographs (in the left frame again) and the link list provides a short, non-annotated list of links to relevant sites.

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