Although they lived in different neighbourhoods and attended different churches, the two groups got along fairly well. Visible minorities account for just 1. Sudbury is also home to a large Indigenous community, at Sudbury has traditionally been known as a mining town. Its first mining company, Canadian Copper, was founded in and began smelting operations in By , Sudbury mines were providing 80 per cent of the world's production of nickel. To this day, the Sudbury Basin remains one of the world's largest producers of nickel.
In addition, local ore deposits contain lead , zinc , silver , gold , cobalt , platinum , selenium and telluride. In fact, during its first few years in business, Canadian Copper struggled to find a market for nickel, but in the s, the mineral started to be used in the manufacture of armour plating for military vehicles, thus forging a link between the local mines and the military that continued for several decades.
Until the Second World War , the mining industry was by far the largest employer in the regional economy. Mining employment peaked in , at 26, jobs, then declined over the following decades because of improved extraction technologies and fluctuating metal prices.
The industry employed only 6, workers by , and only 3, by See also Mining Work Force. Despite this decline in mining employment, mining output in the Sudbury area remains high, thanks to the introduction of continuous mining techniques which allow an unbroken flow of ore from the mine face and innovative technologies.
In fact, Sudbury has become a major centre for development of mining technology. The city is now home to more than a dozen research institutes. The deepest underground neutrino detector in the world is located in Sudbury and operated by the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
Fully operational since , this observatory is collecting data that will provide revolutionary insights into the properties of neutrinos a type of elementary particle and the core of the sun. The observatory places Sudbury at the centre of international research on the physics of subatomic particles.
Sudbury has also become an important centre of higher learning. In addition to its Catholic and public school systems, the region has public English-language secondary schools, private Catholic colleges Notre-Dame, Marymount, St. In , it became the Catholic component of the new Laurentian University, a bilingual, non-denominational federation of several colleges. Sudbury also offers postsecondary vocational education at Cambrian College, founded in As of this writing, however, efforts to establish a French-language university in Sudbury have not succeeded.
Many government jobs, particularly with provincial ministries and agencies such as the Ontario Geological Survey, have relocated to Sudbury. The region's success in regreening surrounding lands and rehabilitating local lakes has earned Sudbury worldwide recognition for its environmental efforts. Click here to see what that means for municipal services. Alerts Twitter Facebook.
Toggle navigation. Our Beginnings Sudbury's origins can be traced back to and the development of the transnational railway. The outdoors: Sudbury boasts more than lakes, making it a paradise for picnickers, swimmers and fishing enthusiasts. Sudbury is the largest city in Northern Ontario with a population of , The city is also one of the largest municipalities, by area, in Canada with a low population density of As such, it offers a unique Northern lifestyle and a superb quality of life like no other.
When incorporated in , it replaced the former Regional Municipality of Sudbury — and City of Sudbury — The city owes much of its development to the mining industry, in particular the mining of nickel. The town was reincorporated as a city in However, the mining industry in the area experienced both ups and downs, depending on many external factors.
For instance, it was on the rise during World War I while being on the decline right after the war. Thanks to high demand for nickel, Sudbury recovered from the Great Depression relatively quickly, in comparison with other towns in Canada.
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