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
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.
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.