Selected Publications
Books
Beaulieu, Michel S., David K. Ratz, Thorold J. Tronrud, and Jenna Kirker. Thunder Bay and the First World War, 1914-1919. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2018.
Thunder Bay Quiz Book 2: 101 More Fascinating Questions about our History. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2011.
Thunder Bay Quiz Book: 101 Fascinating Questions about our History, with Dave Nicholson. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 2005.
Piovesana, Roy, Beth Boegh, and Thorold J. Tronrud. Paper and People: An Illustrated History of Great Lakes Paper and its Successors, 1919-1999. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1999.
Tronrud, Thorold J. and A. Ernest Epp, eds. Thunder Bay: From Rivalry to Unity.Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1995.
Tronrud, Thorold J. Guardians of Progress. Boosters and Boosterism in Thunder Bay, 1870-1914. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1993.
Articles and Book Chapters
"Exhibit Design in the Community Museum." Muse XVII:1 (1999).
"William Armstrong, Art and Enterprise." In William Armstrong, 1822-1913, 40-59. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 1996.
“Building the Industrial City.” In Thunder Bay: From Rivalry to Unity, ed. Thorold Tronrud and A. Ernest Epp, 99-119. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1995.
“Class, Ethnicity and Urban Competition.” In Thunder Bay: From Rivalry to Unity ed. Thorold Tronrud and A. Ernest Epp, 204-226. Thunder Bay: Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society, 1995. (with A.W. Rasporich)
“The Search for Factories in a Staple Economy: Thunder Bay’s Manufacturing Industries, 1880-1980.” Research Report #28, Lakehead University Centre for Northern Studies, 1991.
"Thunder Bay's Suffragists. The Anne J. Barrie Papers." TBHMS Papers and Records XIX (1991): 21-34.
"Buying Prosperity. The Bonusing of Factories at the Lakehead, 1885-1914." Urban History Review XIX (June 1990): 1-13.
"Frontier Social Structure: The Canadian Lakehead, 1871 and 1881." Ontario History LXXIX (June 1987): 145-165.
"The Response to Poverty in Three English Towns, 1560-1640." Social History XVIII (May 1985): 9-27.
"Dispelling the Gloom. The Extent of Poverty in Tudor and Early Stuart Towns: Some Kentish Evidence." Canadian Journal of History XX (April 1985): 1-21.
Plus hundreds of museum exhibitions between 1983 and 2013.