Canada From Paul Eggert (2003-07-27): Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year." From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator, Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12): There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer months for the remainder of the war years. From Jeffery Nichols (2020-02-06): According to the [Shanks] atlas, those western Ontario zones are huge, covering most of Ontario northwest of Sault Ste Marie and Timmins. The zones seem to include towns bigger than the ones they're named after, like Dryden in America/Rainy_River and Wawa (and maybe Attawapiskat) in America/Nipigon. I assume it's too much trouble to change the name of the zone (like when you found out that America/Glace_Bay includes Sydney, Nova Scotia).... From Chris Walton (2022-10-15): The TZ database currently shows that Thunder Bay has observed daylight saving every year from 1970 onwards with the exception of 1973. Back in July I raised some doubts on this mailing list about the 1973 data. I now have more proof that it is wrong. [attached Chronicle-Journal front pages, 1973-04-28 and 1973-10-27] From Paul Eggert (2022-10-15): This is now a link in the primary data. The following entry is from Shanks & Pottenger, with corrections as noted above.
Attributed Statements:
Paul Eggert (2003-07-27):
Willett (1914-03) writes (p. 17) "In the Cities of Fort William, and Port Arthur, Ontario, the principle of the Bill has been in operation for the past three years, and in the City of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, for one year." From David Bryan via Tory Tronrud, Director/Curator, Thunder Bay Museum (2003-11-12): There is some suggestion, however, that, by-law or not, daylight savings time was being practiced in Fort William and Port Arthur before 1909.... [I]n 1910, the line between the Eastern and Central Time Zones was permanently moved about two hundred miles west to include the Thunder Bay area.... When Canada adopted daylight savings time in 1916, Fort William and Port Arthur, having done so already, did not change their clocks.... During the Second World War,... [t]he cities agreed to implement DST during the summer months for the remainder of the war years.
Jeffery Nichols (2020-02-06):
According to the [Shanks] atlas, those western Ontario zones are huge, covering most of Ontario northwest of Sault Ste Marie and Timmins. The zones seem to include towns bigger than the ones they're named after, like Dryden in America/Rainy_River and Wawa (and maybe Attawapiskat) in America/Nipigon. I assume it's too much trouble to change the name of the zone (like when you found out that America/Glace_Bay includes Sydney, Nova Scotia)....
Chris Walton (2022-10-15):
The TZ database currently shows that Thunder Bay has observed daylight saving every year from 1970 onwards with the exception of 1973. Back in July I raised some doubts on this mailing list about the 1973 data. I now have more proof that it is wrong. [attached Chronicle-Journal front pages, 1973-04-28 and 1973-10-27]
Paul Eggert (2022-10-15):
This is now a link in the primary data. The following entry is from Shanks & Pottenger, with corrections as noted above.
backzone(Lines 877 to 917)