Creighton Mine, Ontario
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Creighton Mine is a ghost town in the city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The community was also known as simply Creighton, although there is another Creighton in Simcoe County.
The community was established in 1900 as an INCO company town.
In 1986, the town was closed down. INCO deemed the cost of service upgrades (water, sewer, etc.) to be prohibitive, and all of the town's homes and businesses were torn down or moved to Lively. A few streets, sidewalks and building foundations can still be found in the area. A monument, shown at right, was also placed in the community.
Creighton Mine is the largest Ontario community to have become a ghost town, although the mine itself is still operational. (The mine is also the site of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.)
From 1973 to 2000, Creighton Mine was part of the town of Walden, in the Regional Municipality of Sudbury. On January 1, 2001, the regional municipality was dissolved into the single-tier city of Greater Sudbury.
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