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Thunder Bay has sides and ends. Sides are in reference to the city as a whole, and generally there is only a north side (Port Arthur) and a south side (Fort William). The ends are neighbourhoods of the pre-amalgamation city, of which we have two North Ends, an East End (FW), two west ends, and a south end (PA). Fort William doesn't use its West End and North End designations anymore (the areas are now nameless) because there is too much ambiguity between the north end of Port Arthur (the northernmost part of the city) and West Fort (a community with its own identity apart from Fort William or even Thunder Bay, depending on who you ask), while Port Arthur rarely refers to its South and West ends by those names but people will typically know what you mean if you say them. My neighbourhood is beside the East End, but no actually part of the East End. It was called East Fort William, but it isn't called that anymore.

The North End bus route that existed until the 1980s was actually located in Fort William, further south than about 75% of the city. The East End in Fort William is located west of nearly half of Port Arthur, and south of all of it, but the city of Port Arthur did border it.

Winnipeg has something similar, where the East End of the former town of St. James blends into the West End of the former Winnipeg, near Polo Park.