Port Arthur, city, Canada

Port Arthur: see Thunder Bay Thunder Bay, city (1991 pop. 113,946), SW Ont., Canada, on Thunder Bay inlet of Lake Superior. The city was created in 1970 by the amalgamation of the twin cities of Fort William and Port Arthur and two adjoining townships.
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Port Arthur, city, China

Port Arthur: see Lüshun Lüshun , formerly Port Arthur, Jap. Ryojun, former city, SW Liaoning prov., China, at the tip of the Liaodong peninsula. It was formerly combined with Dailian (Dairen) into the joint municipality of Lüda; it now is an
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Port Arthur, city, United States

Port Arthur, city (1990 pop. 58,724), Jefferson co., SE Tex., on Sabine Lake; inc. 1898. A deepwater port of entry on the Sabine-Neches Canal, it is an extensive oil port, with many large refineries, chemical plants, and oil rigs and ships. There is natural-gas processing, printing and publishing, and the manufacture of building materials and metal products. Agricultural products include rice, soybeans, and cattle. The Sabine region had already been visited and settled, and livestock and rice had been raised, before Arthur E. Stilwell decided (1894) to found a railroad terminus there. American financier and promoter John Warne Gates Gates, John Warne, 1855–1911, American financier and promoter, known as Bet-a-Million Gates, b. near Chicago. He discovered a market for wire fencing on the Western plains, began the manufacture of fencing in St.
..... Click the link for more information. (Bet-a-Million Gates) also contributed to the early growth of the city. A ship channel was completed in 1899. Port Arthur boomed after the discovery (1901) of oil at Spindletop. The city holds an annual event recognizing the oil industry.

Lüshun

or Lü-shun formerly Port Arthur

Former city, since 1950 a district of Dalian city, Liaoning province, northeastern China. Situated at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, it was used as a staging post as early as the 2nd century BC. Fortified under the Ming dynasty, it was captured by the Manchus in 1633 and served as the seat of a defense unit under the Qing dynasty. In 1878 it became the chief base for China's first modern naval force. Leased to Russia in 1898, it was captured by Japan (1905) during the Russo-Japanese War and was made the seat of a provincial government. Under a 1945 treaty it became a Sino-Soviet military base; the Soviet forces withdrew in 1955.

Port Arthur

1. a former penal settlement (1833--70) in Australia, on the S coast of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania

2. the former name of Lüshun

Port Arthur

a city in the southern USA, in Texas. Port on Sabine Lake, linked by canal with the Gulf of Mexico. Population, 57,000 (1970; 316,000 with the neighboring city of Beaumont and suburbs). Port Arthur is the center of an important oil and sulfur region. It has oil-refining, chemical, shipbuilding, and food-processing industries, as well as enterprises that manufacture equipment for the oil industry. Oil is exported.

Port Arthur

a section of the city of Thunder Bay in Canada, which was formed in 1970 when the cities of Fort William and Port Arthur merged.

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