The city is also referred to as "Ville du Grand Sudbury" among Francophones. The Sudbury region was inhabited by the Ojibwe people of the Algonquin group for thousands of years prior to the founding of Sudbury after the discovery of nickel and copper ore in 1883 during the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway.
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Sudbury became the most important mining centre in Canada, with a majority of its population employed in that industry. Huge nickel concentrators and smelters ...
Sudbury has traditionally been known as a mining town. Its first mining company, Canadian Copper, was founded in 1886 and began smelting operations in 1888. In ...
From Mining Town to Regional Capital Since those early pioneer days, Sudbury has evolved into a dynamic and diverse regional capital that functions as the ...
Sudbury serves as a relevant historical case study of a settlement that has undergone several transformations since its inception as a fledgling village in ...
Mining in the area actually began long before Thomas Flanagan –at least 10,000 years before. After the last period of glaciations 11,000 years ago, people of ...
This Sudbury is rich in history.The name was first recorded in 798, it has three medieval churches and cattle have grazed the water meadows for at least 1,000 ...
The Sudbury Basin also known as Sudbury Structure or the Sudbury Nickel Irruptive, is a major geological structure in Ontario, Canada.
Sudbury was founded in 1893 with its first mayor being Stephen Fournier. The main reason for the founding of Sudbury was the uncovering of a nickel deposit ...
Whitby. 1974. Heavy metal pollution in the Sudbury mining and smelting region of Canada, I. Soil and vegetation contamination by nickel, ...