Fort William (provincial electoral district)

Fort William

Ontario electoral district
Defunct provincial electoral district
Legislature	Legislative Assembly of Ontario
District created	1908
District abolished	1999
First contested	1908
Last contested	1999
Demographics
Census divisions	Thunder Bay District
Census subdivisions	Fort William → Thunder Bay

Fort William was a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of Ontario, active from 1908 to 1999. The district was created out of the former Fort William and Lake of the Woods district for the 1908 election, serving the city of Fort William and the surrounding area.

When the city of Fort William merged with the neighbouring city of Port Arthur in 1970 to create the current city of Thunder Bay, the district of Fort William and the corresponding electoral district of Port Arthur continued as separate districts serving the new city.

For the 1999 provincial election, the government of Mike Harris redistributed provincial electoral districts to correspond to the same boundaries and names that were in use for the province's federal electoral districts. Fort William was merged at that time into the new district of Thunder Bay—Atikokan.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Parliament	Years	Member		Party
12th	1908-1911		Thomas Smellie	Conservative
13th	1911-1914		Charles William Jarvis	Conservative
14th	1914-1919
15th	1919-1923		Harry Mills	Labour
16th	1923-1926		Franklin Harford Spence	Conservative
17th	1926-1929
18th	1929-1934
19th	1934-1937		Joseph Edmund Crawford	Liberal
20th	1937-1943		Franklin Harford Spence	Conservative
21st	1943-1945		Garfield Anderson	Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
22nd	1945-1948
23rd	1948-1951		Charles Winnans Cox	Liberal
24th	1951-1955		Clare Mapledoram	Progressive Conservative
25th	1955-1959
26th	1959-1963		John Boyle Chapple	Liberal
27th	1963-1967		Ted Freeman	New Democratic Party
28th	1967-1971		Jim Jessiman	Progressive Conservative
29th	1971-1975
30th	1975-1977		Iain Angus	New Democratic Party
31st	1977-1981		Mickey Hennessy	Progressive Conservative
32nd	1981-1985
33rd	1985-1987
34th	1987-1990		Lyn McLeod	Liberal
35th	1990-1995
36th	1995-1999