Welcome to Thunder Bay
Please find contact details, facilities and opening times for the port on this page. Should you wish to contact a Chaplain, please click here or get in touch with the local team using the contact details below.
Thunder Bay
Contact information
Contacts : The Revd Canon Ed Swayze
Telephone : +1 807 344 8241
Mobile : +1 807 626 2571
Local website :
www.missiontoseafarers.ca/thunderbay
Opening times :
Monday 13:30-14:30
Wednesday 10:00-12:00 and by appointment.
The Seafarers' Centre operates with a part-time chaplain and volunteers. It is open 18:00 to 21:00 daily, (except Sundays) when ocean-going ships are in port. The Centre can be opened at other times with a minimum of 1 hour notice by contacting the Centre.
Our van takes up to 10 seafarers. Call the Seafarers’ Centre (807) 344-8241 a minimum of 1 hour before you would like to be picked up.
Seafarers should wait for a pick-up at the gate of the elevator; for Thunder Bay Terminals in the Taxi and Visitor parking lot.
The Port Chaplain or a volunteer ship visitor will visit with 24 hours of a ship arriving in Thunder Bay and an appointment for a pick-up can be made at that time.