![]() This issue we will include: The Marostica Motors renovations, OPP Communication Centre and Dorian Fish Hatchery. Over the next several issues Thunder Bay Business will be highliting several projects recently completed by the Tom Jones Corporation. Every family has been positively affected by them.” They have many multiple problems including electricity costs, the high cost of fiber, the weak market and labour costs. Thunder Bay if Abitibi Bowater is not operating here. People may not realize how tough the market really is for them. “ Abitibi Bowater has been an absolute pillar of the community. I think it will be terrific for the area,” said John Jones. The new court house will be positive in the South ward. We are also seeing a bit if boom in institutional work. The new medical school and university make it more of an academic climate. Pulp and paper has probably run its course. When asked about the future of the Thunder Bay economy John Jones was unsure. We would like to see the company going for a long time.” Working with Parker is prompting me to keep going, to keep up to him. They are both tall one 6ft 5in and the other 6ft 7in,” said John Jones. One is an apprentice carpenter and the other a journeyman carpenter. My other two sons are working for the company in the field. We like Thunder Bay because it has so much to offer which you can’t duplicate.” There are opportunities here say in research or other hospital spin offs. “ Thunder Bay has been good to us and it is where we are from so we are going to keep looking for work around here and see what we can develop ourselves. ![]() (See The company currently have 30 full time staff and year round close to 70 people including those in the field.“ We have kept our volume steady but locally are busier than in the past few years,” said Parker Jones who has an economics degree from University of Western, Ontario. Tom Jones Jr, the son of Tom heads up the development side of the business which owns several high profile structures in Thunder Bay. The company has the construction side and development side. He is constantly prequalifying for other work, finding work, tendering and in some cases carrying the project through to the end as project manager.” My son Parker is replacing me to be manager and is heading up a number of projects in the office. “ This is a fourth generation of our family in construction if you consider my grandfather. ![]() He is still very astute,” said John Jones of Tom Jones Corporation. My father was born in Belfast and we celebrated his 90th birthday there recently. My father started the company in 1960, and my grandfather was a contractor in Ireland before that and he spent a short time in Port Arthur. “ It was 1967 when my brother and I got serious about this business. The list is absolutely impressive! The company is as busy as ever today and has many projects just completed or undergoing.Ībove: John Tom and Parker Jones of Tom Jones Corporation Medical School building, the Ontario Government building on Water Street, Intercity Shopping Centre and many other retail and office buildings. In fact when you take a drive around our city will see their work in many of our landmark facilities like the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, Lakehead University’s ATAC and new Tom Jones Corporation: Fourth Generation Continues The Family TraditionĪll of us in Thunder Bay know about the Tom Jones Corporation businesses.
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