Sudbury has a humid continental climate with warm and often hot summers and long, cold, snowy winters — you can expect snow on the ground for six months of the year. Sudbury Multicultural and Folk Arts Association.
The Greater Sudbury Transit public transportation system relies on a bus system. For maps, routes and schedules, visit the website.
Sudbury thrives on being a multicultural society and has many places where individuals can celebrate their faith. While the majority of residents follow Christianity, others religious practices include Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh and other religions. Each area has its own unique history. Sudbury Real Estate Board. Given the average home sale price, you could probably get a mortgage for about close to the average rent with a decent down payment. This makes home ownership very realistic.
The medical sector has seen tremendous growth in Sudbury, and it is now a regional resource and referral centre for residents in Northeastern Ontario.
The total area of the City of Greater Sudbury is 3, square kilometres including water bodies, making it the largest municipality in Ontario based on total area. The City of Greater Sudbury contains lakes within its municipal boundaries. At 13, hectares in area, Lake Wanapitei becomes the largest city-contained lake in the world. Greater Sudbury's urban core also boasts numerous lakes which are a valued natural amenity.
Different types of travel insurance. Travel information. Canada is made up of cities in 13 regions. The region Ontario has cities. Sudbury is number 12 in the region Ontario. The city is number 26 in Canada. The population is Where is Clydegale Lake? Where is Roaring Lake? The Ojibwa maintained more harmonious relations with the French than with the British; while the former focused on the fur trade, the latter hoped to colonize the area in the long run and develop mining there.
In the early 19th century, as White men began arriving in large numbers in search of copper and other metals, tensions rose. In the midth century, the Ojibwa submitted written complaints to the British colonial government about Europeans trespassing on Ojibwa land, but these complaints were ignored.
Over the following years, the number of White merchants, prospectors and land surveyors in the region increased substantially, but the town of Sudbury was not established until the s, with the arrival of the Canadian Pacific Railway CPR. In the winter of —83, about 3, workers arrived on the site of modern Sudbury. What was initially slated to be merely a depot for the CPR became an increasingly populous company town. Few imagined at the time that this remote outpost, surrounded by swamps and rocky outcrops, would one day become the largest community in northern Ontario.
The timber trade was one of the first local industries and was modest in scale. But business activity in the town of Sudbury began to pick up considerably after , when numerous deposits of copper and other metals were discovered in the Sudbury Basin.
Rumours that the Ojibwa had mined copper in the area in the past, along with more recent developments such as ore discoveries on the upper Michigan Peninsula and reports from the Geological Survey of Canada , drew attention to the local mining industry. The Sudbury Basin indeed proved to be one of the most unusual geological formations in Canada.
Formed by the impact of a large meteorite some 1. Sudbury's early growth was constrained by railway lines and the area's topography, as well as by the lack of a sound tax base the community did not begin receiving any taxes from the mining industry until the advent of regional government in Settlement in the community gradually extended outward along the major roads, which were separated by rocky ridges. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, large numbers of French Canadians began farming the agricultural valley north and west of the town.
At first these French Canadians worked mainly in logging and farming , but soil depletion and a growing need to supplement their income eventually led many of them to go to work in the mines and sometimes to move to particular neighbourhoods, such as Moulin-a-Fleur the Flower Mill , downtown, and, starting in the s, the suburb of New Sudbury.
This indiscriminate sprawl ultimately led to the establishment of regional government in and the new unified city in As the result of logging, forest fires and the pollution caused by the practice of roasting ore on open wood fires to extract the desired minerals from it, vegetation in Sudbury became sparse, consisting mainly of poplar and birch species. Sudbury thus gained the unenviable reputation of being one of the most unattractive urban centres in Canada.
But in , Sudbury began to transform its urban landscape through the world's largest urban regreening and environmental rehabilitation program. From to , over 3, ha of badly damaged land was restored and 9.
Sudbury also has many lakes : within city limits, including Ramsey Lake, whose surface area of 8. The population of Sudbury was only 2, in , but doubled in each of the next three censuses , and As the result of a major amalgamation and annexation in , it rose to 80, in Although they lived in different neighbourhoods and attended different churches, the two groups got along fairly well.
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