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North Bay is a city in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is the seat of Nipissing district, and takes its name from its position on the shore of Nipissing lake. North Bay, Ont, incorporated as a city in 1925, population 53 651 (2011c), 53 966 (2006c). The city of North-Bay is located on a northeastern bay of lake Nipissing, at the junction of highways 11 and 17, some 345 km North of Toronto and 365 km North-West of Ottawa. As the traditional « Gateway to the North » the city is administrative seat for the district of Nipissing. North-Bay lies roughly along the historic « Nipissing Route » of the fur trader, where the portage of La Vase river connected the waters of Trout lake and the Ottawa and Mattawa rivers with lake Nipissing, the French river and Georgian bay of Huron Great Lake. Its development awaited the slow progression of settlement up the Ottawa valley and from southern Ontario that was initiated by the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway (1882). Later rail connections were made to Toronto (1886) and to the resource areas northward (1904). Town status (1891) followed by city status befitted North-Bay's role as a regional supply centre and key rail point. It did not « boom » in the manner of many northern centres, but it also avoided the « bust » cycle so intimately associated with such resource-based growth. The city's geographically advantageous position supported a variety of economic endeavours. It remains a major fur centre: its wild-fur auctions are among the largest in the world. Wood and wood products remain important. Recently, information technology, processing and general manufactures have supplemented traditional industries and tourism. North-Bay is also home to a military base, Nipissing University and Canadore College of Applied Arts and Technology. North-Bay's population is largely of British origin with a strong French-Canadian presence and notable elements of Dutch, Italian, Scandinavian and German stock - beneficiaries of a prosperous urban life with proximity to the « Near North ». Among the historical developments celebrated are the Dionne Quituplets » (born in nearby Corbeil village ) and the invention of the ice-skating sport of ringuette, which was first played in North-Bay in 1963.

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Coordinates:   46°18'4"N   79°26'56"W

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  • Greatest place to live!
  • North Bay is a very cool city, It is located not so far from Sudbury.
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