Greater Sudbury
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| Greater Sudbury, Ontario Grand-Sudbury, Ontario |
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| Motto: "Aedificemus" (Latin) "Come, let us build together" |
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| Country | Canada  |
| Province | Ontario  |
| Established | 1893 (as Sudbury) |
| 2001 (as Greater Sudbury) | |
| Government | |
| - Mayor | John Rodriguez |
| - Governing Body | Greater Sudbury City Council |
| - MPs | Raymond Bonin (LPC), Diane Marleau (LPC) |
| - MPPs | Rick Bartolucci (OLP), Shelley Martel (NDP) |
| Area | |
| - City | 3,200 km² (1,235.5 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 347.5 m (1,140.1 ft) |
| Population (2006)[1] | |
| - City | 157,857 |
| - Density | 49.3/km² (127.7/sq mi) |
| - Urban | 106,612 |
| - Metro | 158,258 |
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) |
| - Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| Postal code span | P3(A-G), P3L, P3N, P3P, P3Y, P0M |
| Area code(s) | 705 |
| Metropolitan area rank: 24th in Canada Municipal rank: 29th in Canada |
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| Website: City of Greater Sudbury | |
Greater Sudbury (2006 census population 157,857) is a city in Northern Ontario, Canada. Greater Sudbury was created in 2001 by amalgamating the cities and towns of the former Regional Municipality of Sudbury, along with several previously unincorporated geographic townships.
It is the largest city in Northern Ontario in population, and the 24th largest metropolitan area in Canada. In land area, it is now the largest city in Ontario, the seventh largest municipality in Canada, and the largest municipality in English Canada legally designated as a city.
Greater Sudbury is one of only four cities in Ontario — the others are Toronto, Ottawa and Hamilton — which constitute their own independent census divisions, and are not part of any district, county or regional municipality.
It is also the only city in Ontario which has two official names -- its name in French is Grand-Sudbury. Unlike designations such as Greater Toronto or Greater Montreal, the name "Greater Sudbury" refers to a single city, not a conurbation of independent municipalities. However, the name Sudbury, without its official modifiers, is still the more common name for the city in everyday usage.
The city's Census Metropolitan Area consists of the city proper and the First Nations reserves of Whitefish Lake and Wanapitei.
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[edit] History
Originally named Sainte-Anne-des-Pins ("St. Anne of the Pines"), the community started as a small lumber camp in McKim township. During construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1883, blasting and excavation revealed high concentrations of nickel-copper ore at Murray Mine on the edge of the Sudbury Basin. The community, renamed Sudbury in honour of the CPR commissioner's wife's hometown in England, grew rapidly as a mining town. Sudbury was incorporated as a town in 1893, and as a city in 1930. The town's first mayor was Stephen Fournier.
Through the decades that followed, Sudbury's economy went through boom and bust cycles as world demand for nickel rose and fell. Demand was high during the First World War, when Sudbury-mined nickel was used extensively in the manufacture of artillery in Sheffield, England. It bottomed out when the war ended, rose again in the mid-1920s, then fell as the Great Depression hit, and rose again during the Second World War. After the end of that war, however, Sudbury was in a good position to supply nickel to the United States government when it decided to stockpile non-Soviet supplies during the Cold War.
In 1940, Sudbury became the first city in Canada to install parking meters.
In the 1950s and 60s, Sudbury was beset by extensive labour unrest, as Inco and Falconbridge employees not only fought their companies for the right to unionize, but also fought amongst themselves as to what union would represent them.
Both the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers and the United Steelworkers of America had support among Sudbury miners, and there were often riots in the streets as the rival factions confronted each other. Ultimately, the two unions settled into an uneasy truce, with Mine Mill winning the right to unionize Falconbridge, and the Steelworkers winning the right to unionize Inco.
In February 1956, the Mine Mill held its Canadian convention, which was particularly notable for being the first non-U.S. concert given by Paul Robeson after the United States government instituted its travel ban against him. The same year, the city approved a natural gas contract with Northern Ontario Natural Gas — the city's mayor at the time, Leo Landreville, was later forced to resign from the Supreme Court of Ontario bench after allegations that he had received stock favours in exchange for the contract.
On August 20, 1970, a tornado struck the city and its suburbs, killing six people and remaining the eighth deadliest tornado in Canadian history.
In 1973, the city and its suburban communities were reorganized into the Regional Municipality of Sudbury.
Labour issues would continue to be Sudbury's dominant economic challenge. In 1979, Inco workers embarked on a strike over production and employment cutbacks, which lasted for nine full months. As Inco was by this time Sudbury's largest employer, the strike decimated Sudbury's economy. When the strike finally ended in 1980, the city's government recognized the urgent need to diversify the city's economy. Through an aggressive strategy, the city tried to attract new employers and industries through the 1980s and 1990s. Today mining remains an important industry, but Sudbury also derives economic strength as a centre of commerce, government, tourism and science and technology research. Although Inco remains the city's largest single employer, the mining industry is no longer the city's largest sector of employment.
The city's economic growth has also been hindered at times by taxation issues: because of federal corporate taxation rules pertaining to natural resources companies, Sudbury's ability to directly levy municipal taxes on Inco and Falconbridge is severely curtailed, compared to most cities whose major employers operate in other industries. Prior to the creation of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury in 1973, the city could not in fact levy any taxes against the mining companies at all, a fact which sometimes left the city without a sufficient tax base to adequately maintain or improve municipal services. Concurrently with the creation of the Regional Municipality, the city was given the power to levy property taxes on the companies' surface operations, but not on underground facilities. This change improved the city's tax base somewhat, but the ongoing discrepancy has still been cited as a factor in municipal politics as recently as the 2006 municipal election.
The former regional municipality was amalgamated in 2001 into the single-tier city of Greater Sudbury. In 2006, there was renewed debate on the municipal amalgamation. The former town of Rayside-Balfour, and many of its residents, are unhappy with their position in the city, and lobbied for a deamalgamation referendum during the 2006 municipal election. City council refused to endorse such a referendum, although even with the council's endorsement a vote would still have to be approved by the provincial Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. In 2006, then-Mayor David Courtemanche appointed former MPP Floyd Laughren to chair an advisory committee to review and make recommendations to improve the quality of city services to the outlying communities. Laughren submitted his final report on January 10, 2007, making 34 recommendations for improvements in the city's municipal ward structure, communications, transportation, recreation and transit services.
Also in 2006, both of the city's major mining companies, Inco and Falconbridge, were taken over by new owners: Inco was acquired by the Brazilian company CVRD, while Falconbridge was purchased by the Swiss company Xstrata.
[edit] Government
Prior to 1973, Sudbury comprised portions of the geographic townships of Neelon and McKim.
In 1973, provincially-mandated restructuring of municipal government organized the city of Sudbury and surrounding towns into the Regional Municipality of Sudbury, which consisted of seven municipalities. The population figures cited next to each are for 1996, the last Canadian census before the amalgamated city came into effect:
- City of Sudbury (92,059)
- Town (city after 1997) of Valley East (23,537)
- Town of Rayside-Balfour (16,050)
- Town of Nickel Centre (13,017)
- Town of Walden (10,292)
- Town of Onaping Falls (5,277)
- Town of Capreol (3,817)
Municipal responsibilities were distributed between the council of the Regional Municipality and the councils of the individual towns and cities. The region covered 2,607 square kilometres.
In 1979, Sudbury became the first city in Canada to install a TTY line in the mayor's office to help improve service to deaf citizens.
The five towns and two cities of the region, as well as several unorganized townships, were amalgamated by provincial order on January 1, 2001 to become the city of Greater Sudbury. The city is headed by a council and mayor. The main municipal office is at Tom Davies Square, named for a former chair of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury. Citizen service offices, which provide an access point for public services such as license applications, are also located in some of the suburban communities, often in the libraries or former town halls of the pre-amalgamation municipalities.
The current mayor of Greater Sudbury is John Rodriguez, who defeated David Courtemanche in the 2006 municipal election.
The city is represented federally by Members of Parliament Diane Marleau in the Sudbury riding, and Ray Bonin in Nickel Belt. Their counterparts in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario are Rick Bartolucci in Sudbury and Shelley Martel in Nickel Belt.
The provincial Ministry of Northern Development and Mines has its head office in the city.
[edit] Communities
The name Greater Sudbury is almost exclusively a political designation. In common usage, the city is still generally referred to as Sudbury. The usage "Greater City of Sudbury" (rather than "City of Greater Sudbury") is also heard on occasion, but is technically incorrect.
Outside of the region, the name "Sudbury" is still commonly understood to refer only to the former city of Sudbury, with the outlying communities often believed to remain distinct from the city itself. Some of the outlying communities, for example, still retain their own distinct postal and telephone exchange codes — as of 2006, these services have still not been fully integrated into a single citywide system.
In local usage, however, the name "Sudbury" is more ambiguous. It may refer either to the city as a whole or exclusively to the urban core of old Sudbury, but is at the same time rarely if ever used as a geographic disambiguator. For instance, a resident of Chelmsford would not tell their neighbour they were going shopping "in Sudbury", but rather "downtown" or "in Minnow Lake" or "in New Sudbury".
Communities within the city are listed below. Communities listed in bold are those which are listed as distinct telephone and postal exchanges by Bell Canada and Canada Post:
- Former town of Capreol: Capreol - Milnet - Sellwood
- Former town of Nickel Centre: Austin - Bailey Corners - Bowland's Bay - Coniston - Falconbridge - Garson - Happy Valley - Skead - Wahnapitae
- Former town of Onaping Falls: Dowling - Levack - Levack Station - Onaping - Phelans
- Former town of Rayside-Balfour: Azilda - Bélanger - Boninville - Chelmsford - Hull - Larchwood - Simard
- Former city of Sudbury: Adamsdale - Barrydowne - Copper Cliff - Frood Mine - Gatchell - Lo-Ellen - Lockerby - McFarlane Lake - Minnow Lake - New Sudbury - Nickeldale - Rheault - Robinson
- Former city of Valley East - Blezard Valley - Elmview - Flake - Guilletville - Hagarty - Hanmer - Laurentian - McCrea Heights - Parkwood - Val Caron - Val Thérèse
- Former town of Walden: Beaver Lake - Crean Hill - Creighton Mine - High Falls - Lively - Mikkola - Milate - Naughton - Turbine - Victoria Mine - Waters - Whitefish - Worthington
- Formerly unorganized communities: St. Cloud - Wanup.
[edit] Geography
The ore deposits in Sudbury are part of a large geological structure known as the Sudbury Basin, believed to be the remnants of a 1.85-billion year old meteorite impact crater. Sudbury ore contains profitable amounts of many elements, especially transition metals, including platinum. It also contains an unusually high concentration of sulfur. When nickel-copper ore is smelted, this sulfur is released into the environment, where it is toxic to vegetation. Carried aloft, it combines with atmospheric water to form sulfuric acid. This contaminates atmospheric water, resulting in a phenomenon known as acid rain.
As a result, Sudbury was widely, although not entirely accurately, known for many years as a wasteland. In parts of the city, vegetation was devastated, both by acid rain and by logging to provide fuel for early smelting techniques, as well as wood for the reconstruction of Chicago after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The resulting erosion exposed bedrock, which was charred in most places to a pitted, dark black appearance. There was not a complete lack of vegetation in the region, however. Paper birch and wild blueberry are notable examples of plants which thrived in the acidic soils, and even during the worst years of the city's environmental damage, not all parts of the city were equally affected.
During the Apollo manned lunar exploration program, NASA astronauts trained in Sudbury, to become familiar with shatter cones, a rare rock formation connected with meteorite impacts. However, the popular misconception that they were visiting Sudbury because it purportedly resembled the lifeless surface of the moon dogged the city for years.
In the late 1970s, private, public, and commercial interests combined to establish an unprecedented "regreening" effort. Lime was spread over the charred soil of the Sudbury region by hand and by aircraft. Seeds of wild grasses and other vegetation were also spread. In twenty years, over three million trees were planted. The ecology of the Sudbury region has recovered dramatically, due both to the regreening program and improved mining practices, and in 1992 the city was given the "Local Government Honours Award" by the United Nations, in honour of its innovative community-based strategies in environmental rehabilitation. More recently, the city has begun to rehabilitate the slag heaps that surround the Copper Cliff smelter area, with the planting of grass and trees.
Sudbury is on the Canadian (Precambrian) Shield. Over 300 lakes lie within its municipal boundaries, including Lake Wanapitei, which holds the record for the largest lake in the world completely contained within the boundaries of a single city. (Before the municipal amalgamation of 2001, this status was held by Lake Ramsey, which is just a few kilometres south of downtown Sudbury.)
[edit] Seismic activity
On November 29, 2006, the city was hit by a minor earthquake, which registered 4.1 on the Richter scale and had its epicentre approximately five kilometres west of Lively. No major damage was reported, although there were reports of the quake being felt as far away as Toronto. Seismologists confirmed in early December that the quake was most likely related, directly or indirectly, to mining activity in the region. Mining-related seismological activity is not uncommon in the region, although it rarely causes any significant damage — in the most notable such incident, the then-outlying community of Worthington was destroyed on October 4, 1927 when a rock shift caused the entire community to collapse into a mine shaft. No lives were lost in that incident, however, as a mine foreman had noticed the warning signs and successfully evacuated the community the previous evening. Similarly, on June 20, 1984, four miners at Falconbridge were killed in a rock burst which registered 3.4 on the Richter scale.
Small earthquakes were also reported on March 13 [1] and September 20, 2005 [2].
[edit] Demographics
(Multiple Responses Included)
| Ethnic origin | Population | Percent |
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| Canadian | 74,945 | 48.82% |
| French | 59,580 | 38.81% |
| English | 30,295 | 19.73% |
| Irish | 24,910 | 16.22% |
| Scottish | 21,300 | 13.87% |
| Italian | 12,025 | 7.83% |
| German | 10,180 | 6.63% |
The population of Sudbury has declined slightly in recent years, due mostly to many young Sudburians moving to other parts of Canada, especially the southern cities of Ontario. In 2001, the total population of Sudbury was 155,219, a drop of 6.1 percent, comparing to the 1996 population of 165,336. Approximately 18.27 percent of the population is under 14 years of age, while those over 65 number 13.84 percent. The average is 38.9 years of age.
In the 2006 census, the city's population increased to 157,857, a growth of 1.7 per cent over 2001 but still down from 1996. Of that population, 106,612 lived in the city's urban core, while the remaining 51,245 lived in more rural communities within the city limits.
Sudbury is largely a bilingual city. Sudbury has a large Francophone population, mostly due to the vast amount of inhabitants of French origin. Some 62.3 percent of the population speak English, followed by French: 28.2%. Much of the remaining population are bilingual, as well as Italian and German speakers.[3]
Like many other northern cities, the Christian[4] population is overwhelming. Almost 90 percent of the population claims various Christian denominations, the vast majority being Roman Catholic: 64.58%, Protestant: 23.09%, and other Christian groups numbering 1.62%. Other religions such as Islam, Judaism, and Hinduism constitute less than one per cent.
[edit] Transportation
Highway 17 is the main branch of the Trans-Canada Highway, connecting the city to points east and west. An approximately 25-kilometre (15 mile) segment of Highway 17, from Mikkola to Whitefish, is freeway. As of 2006, this segment is one of only two full freeway segments (the other being Highway 11 southeast of North Bay) in all of Northern Ontario.
Highway 69, also a branch of the Trans-Canada Highway, leads south to Parry Sound, where it connects to the Highway 400 freeway to Toronto. Highway 400 will eventually be extended to reach Greater Sudbury; although the timetable may be subject to change, this construction is currently scheduled for completion in 2017.
Highway 144 leads north to Timmins.
The provincial Ministry of Transportation has announced tentative plans to extend the Highway 17 freeway east to Coniston in the mid-2010s, near the completion date of the Highway 400 construction. Studies have also been completed on the freeway segment's westerly extension as far as Espanola, although no construction timetable has been set. In the longer term, the whole highway may eventually be subsumed into Highway 417, although to date no formal project planning has taken place and that is likely decades away.
The Greater Sudbury Airport is served by regional carrier lines such as Bearskin and Air Canada Jazz. SunWing Vacations also offers direct flights out of the Greater Sudbury Airport to Orlando (Florida, USA), Varadero (Cuba), and to Cancun/Mayan Riviera (Mexico). Sudbury is also served by rail (Via Rail) and inter-city bus service (Greyhound Canada and Ontario Northland). The city also maintains a public transit system, Greater Sudbury Transit.
[edit] Education
Greater Sudbury is home to three postsecondary institutions: Laurentian University, a bilingual university, Cambrian College, an English college of applied arts and technology, and Collège Boréal, a francophone college with additional campuses throughout Northern Ontario. (Boréal does, however, offer a few trade courses in English.) Laurentian University is also home to the Sudbury campus of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM). NOSM was the first medical school to open in Canada in 30 years, opening its doors in September of 2005.
English-language public schooling is provided by the Rainbow District School Board. The board operates 30 elementary and seven secondary schools throughout the city, plus one school for students with special needs and the Cecil Facer Youth Centre for young offenders. The Sudbury Catholic District School Board offers publicly-funded English-language Catholic schools, with 18 elementary schools and four high schools. French-language public schools are administered by the Conseil scolaire de district du Grand Nord de l'Ontario with nine elementary and three secondary schools. Finally, the French-language catholic board is the Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Nouvel-Ontario, with 18 elementary and four secondary schools.
There are also two Christian private schools in the city (Glad Tidings Academy and King Christian Academy), as well as a Montessori school.
[edit] Culture
Almost 30% of the city's population is Franco-Ontarian, particularly in the former municipalities of Valley East and Rayside-Balfour. The city has, in fact, the largest proportion of francophones to the general population of any city in Ontario. Sudbury is a very important centre in Franco-Ontarian cultural history, and the francophone community of Sudbury has played a central role in developing and maintaining many of the cultural institutions of francophone Ontario. Those institutions include the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario, La Nuit sur l'étang, La Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario, Le Centre franco-ontarien de folklore and the Prise de parole publishing company. Sudbury is also the birthplace of high school theatre troupe Les Draveurs, based in École secondaire Macdonald-Cartier.
The Franco-Ontarian flag, as well, calls Sudbury home. It was first flown in 1975, at Laurentian University. As of 2006, it is now permanently flown at Tom Davies Square.
Sudbury has lent its mining heritage to two major tourist attractions: Science North, which is an interactive science museum built atop an ancient earthquake fault on the shore of Lake Ramsey, and Dynamic Earth, an earth sciences exhibition which is also home to the Big Nickel, one of Sudbury's most famous landmarks. Another city landmark, the Inco Superstack, is the tallest freestanding chimney in the Western hemisphere. As well, the Creighton Mine site in Sudbury is the site of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, the lowest background radiation particle detector in the world.
Sudbury is also home to the Sudbury Theatre Centre, the Cinéfest film festival, the Sudbury Symphony Orchestra, the Art Gallery of Sudbury, the annual Northern Lights Festival Boréal folk festival, and numerous community museums. The CBC Television series Chilly Beach, an animated comedy, is produced by a Sudbury firm, March Entertainment.
Sudbury is one of the only cities remaining in Ontario where retail stores are still not permitted to open on Boxing Day, December 26. Instead, stores in Sudbury begin their post-Christmas Boxing Day sales on December 27. In recent years, some major chain retailers in the city have occasionally chosen to disregard the municipal bylaw, opening on December 26 and voluntarily accepting the risk of a fine.
Sudbury hosted the International Physics Olympiad in 1997.
Sudbury also has a prominent Royal Canadian Air Cadets organization, 200 Wolf Squadron, headquartered at the Sudbury Armouries on Riverside Drive.
Sudbury was one of the first Canadian cities to plan and implement its own digital telecommunications strategy. Beginning in 1996, the city began constructing a fibre optic network which saw over 400 kilometres of cable laid down to serve the city's business and citizen populations. In November of 2005, the city was named one of the world's "Smart 21 Communities" by the Intelligent Community Forum, a worldwide project to honour technological innovation. Other named cities included Waterloo, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Dubai, Seoul, London, Manchester and Melbourne. [5]
Sudbury also has a moderately sized but active LGBT community. This community is partially fuelled by local residents, out of town students attending the city's three postsecondary institutions, as well as residents of surrounding Northern Ontario cities. Zig's, the city's prominent gay business, is the only gay bar in all of Northern Ontario. The city also has a Pride parade, which takes place in August of each year, and was held for the first time in 1997.
[edit] Sudbury in art and literature
Notable works of fiction set primarily or partially in Sudbury or its former suburbs include Bruce McDonald's film Roadkill, Paul Quarrington's novel Logan in Overtime, Robert J. Sawyer's Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, Alistair MacLeod's novel No Great Mischief, and Jean-Marc Dalpé's play 1932, la ville du nickel and his short story collection Contes sudburois. The city is also fictionalized as "Chinookville" in several books by American comedy writer Jack Douglas.
One of Stompin' Tom Connors' most famous songs, "Sudbury Saturday Night", is inspired by the city and its hard rock mining image. Quebec musician Mononc' Serge also wrote a song about the city, titled "Sudbury", on his 2001 album Mon voyage au Canada.
In the television show Heroes, character Eden McCain was dumped into Lake Ramsey after committing suicide.
[edit] Health care
Greater Sudbury serves as the health care centre for much of northeastern Ontario through the Sudbury Regional Hospital. The hospital currently has three sites: St. Joseph's Health Centre (the old Sudbury General Hospital), Sudbury Memorial, and Laurentian. Formerly three separate hospitals, the government of Ontario amalgamate the hospitals in the late 1990s under its health care restructuring agenda. The one-site care facility is still under construction at the site of Laurentian Hospital. Laurentian is also the site of the Regional Cancer Program, which treats cancer patients from across the north. In 1968, the first successful coronary artery bypass surgery in Canada was performed at Sudbury Memorial Hospital.
Mental health services are also provided to the area through the Northeast Mental Health Centre.
[edit] Emergency services
Greater Sudbury is served by the Greater Sudbury Police Service, headquarted in downtown Sudbury. There is also a detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police located in the McFarlane Lake area of the city's south end. The city also provides ambulance / EMS and fire services. Greater Sudbury Fire Services operates from 25 fire stations located throughout the city, with a combination of full-time and paid part-time firefighters. Prior to the municipal amalgamation of 2001, most of the suburban towns were served by separate volunteer fire departments, which were amalgamated into the current citywide service as part of the municipal restructuring. Police and EMS services, however, were provided by a single region-wide system prior to amalgamation.
[edit] Sports
The Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League play in the city, at the Sudbury Arena. The city is also home to a harness racing track located in Azilda called Sudbury Downs. That facility, although not a full casino, also has slot machines.
Laurentian University is represented in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport league by the Laurentian Voyageurs and the Laurentian Lady Vees. Cambrian College is represented in the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association by the Cambrian Golden Shield, and Collège Boréal is represented by the Boréal Vipères. High school students compete in the Sudbury District Secondary School Athletic Association (SDSSAA), which is a division of Northern Ontario Secondary School Athletics (NOSSA).
The city hosted the IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics in 1988. Sudbury also played host to the Brier, Canada's annual men's curling championships, in 1953 and 1983, and to the 2001 Scott Tournament of Hearts, the women's curling championship.
The Sudbury Spartans football club have been tearing up the gridiron for over half a century with the team's inaugural season in 1954. However, back then they were known as the Hardrocks, the name honouring the city's miners. The team changed the name in 1967 to the Spartans due to then coach Sid Forster believing that Hardrocks sounded too much like the name of a street gang.
[edit] Climate
| Temperature | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
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| Daily Average | -13.6 | -11.4 | -5.3 | 3.1 | 11.3 | 16.2 | 19 | 17.7 | 12.3 | 5.8 | -1.5 | -9.5 | 3.7 |
| Daily Maximum | -8.4 | -6.1 | -0.1 | 8.5 | 17.2 | 22 | 24.8 | 23.1 | 17.3 | 10 | 2 | -5.1 | 8.8 |
| Daily Minimum | -18.6 | -16.6 | -10.4 | -2.2 | 5.3 | 10.4 | 13.3 | 12.3 | 7.2 | 1.5 | -5.1 | -13.9 | -1.4 |
| Precipitation | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rainfall(mm) | 12.5 | 7.1 | 29.8 | 47 | 75.9 | 77.7 | 76.6 | 90.7 | 101.2 | 76.8 | 47.6 | 13.7 | 656.5 |
| Snowfall(cm) | 63.8 | 50 | 38.9 | 18.3 | 1.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 5.3 | 32.4 | 64.2 | 274.4 |
| Precipitation(mm) | 68.6 | 50.6 | 65.9 | 64.9 | 77.5 | 77.8 | 76.6 | 90.5 | 101.3 | 82.1 | 76.5 | 67.1 | 899.3 |
Weather Averages are for the period from 1970 to 2000.
[edit] Notables
This list includes people from all communities within the current city boundaries.
- Robert Adetuyi, screenwriter (Stomp the Yard)
- Al Arbour, NHL hockey coach
- Larry Aurie, former captain of the Detroit Red Wings
- Alex Baumann, Olympic gold medalist (1984)
- Todd Bertuzzi, NHL hockey player
- Ryan Bishops, country/rock guitarist (Ox, Kate Maki)
- Hector "Toe" Blake, NHL hockey player, coached 8 Stanley Cup teams
- Michel Bock, historian and winner of the 2005 Governor General's Award for French language non-fiction
- Joe Bowen, Canadian sportscaster "Molson Leafs Hockey"
- Mark Browning, rock singer (Ox)
- Andrew Brunette, NHL hockey player
- Daryl Brunt, Canadian Idol competitor
- Jeffrey Buttle, figure skater
- CANO, 1970s folk rock band
- Robert Campeau, financier
- Randy Carlyle, NHL hockey player
- Judy Feld Carr, humanitarian who rescued over 3,000 Jewish people from wartorn Syria in the 1970s and 1980s
- Cindy Cook, children's entertainer and former host of Polka Dot Door
- Jean-Marc Dalpé, dramatist and two-time winner of the Governor-General's Award
- Paul Desmarais, businessman
- Robert Dickson, poet and winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for French poetry
- Ron Duguay, NHL hockey player
- Rand Dyck, political scientist and professor at Laurentian University
- Judy Erola, former federal cabinet minister and Member of Parliament
- Robert Esmie, Olympic gold medalist (1996)
- Mike Foligno, NHL hockey player, OHL Hockey Coach
- Aaron Gavey, hockey player
- Gil Grand, country music singer best known for his song "Famous First Words"
- James Jerome, former federal Member of Parliament and Speaker of the House of Commons
- Gary Kinsman, sociologist and professor at Laurentian University
- Mike Lalonde, singer-songwriter
- Floyd Laughren, former Member of Provincial Parliament and Ontario Minister of Finance
- Dave Lowry, NHL hockey player
- Kate Maki, country rock singer-songwriter
- Ross McLaren, filmmaker and artist
- Bobby McIntosh and Yas Taalat, rappers (Project Wyze, Dead Celebrity Status)
- Jake Mathews, country singer / songwriter
- Bruce Mau, designer
- Robert Paquette, singer-songwriter
- Stef Paquette, Francophone singer-songwriter
- Michael Persinger, cognitive neuroscience researcher and professor at Laurentian University
- Reg Plummer, Olympic field hockey player
- Marie-Paule Poulin, Senator and president-elect of the Liberal Party of Canada
- Jamie Rivers, NHL hockey player
- Kimberly Rogers, woman whose death in 2001 while under house arrest for a disputed welfare fraud conviction became a major political issue in Ontario
- Art Ross, NHL hockey player
- John Rutherford, professor emeritus, Laurentian University and local business owner
- Brian Savage, NHL hockey player
- Eddie Shack, NHL hockey player
- Sandra Shamas, comedian
- Sonja Smits, television actress (Traders, Street Legal, The Eleventh Hour)
- Pat Travers, rock guitarist ("Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights)")
- Alex Trebek, television host (Jeopardy!)
[edit] Media
[edit] Television
- Channel 5: CICI, CTV
- Channel 9: CBLT-6, CBC (formerly CKNC)
- Channel 11: CFGC, Global
- Channel 13: CBLFT-2, SRC
- Channel 19: CICO-19, TVOntario
- Channel 25: CHLF, TFO
- Channel 41: CHCH-4, CH
- Cable 10: News Channel 10, Persona Cable community channel
American network affiliates available on cable television in Sudbury come from Detroit (WDIV/NBC, WXYZ/ABC, WTVS/PBS), Cadillac (WWTV/CBS) and Rochester, New York (WUHF/FOX).
[edit] Radio
- 790 AM - CIGM (country/news/sports)
- 90.1 FM - CBBS (CBC Radio Two)
- 90.9 FM - CBBX (Espace musique)
- 92.7 FM - CJRQ (Q92, active rock)
- 95.5 FM - CJTK (K95.5, Christian music)
- 96.7 FM - CKLU (Laurentian University campus radio)
- 98.1 FM - CBON (La Première Chaîne)
- 98.9 FM - CHYC (Francophone hot adult contemporary)
- 99.9 FM - CBCS (CBC Radio One)
- 101.1 FM - CKSO (Christian music, current broadcast status uncertain)
- 103.9 FM - CHNO (Big Daddy 103.9, classic hits/adult hits)
- 105.3 FM - CJMX (EZ Rock, adult contemporary)
On July 17, 2006, the CRTC issued a call for applications for a new radio service in the Sudbury market. The applicants were announced in September after the call for applications closed; CHNO's owner, Newcap Broadcasting, and CHYC's owner, Haliburton Broadcasting, each applied for a second station. Four other smaller companies also applied for what would be their first entry into the Sudbury market: Connelly Communications of Kirkland Lake, Joco Communications of Sturgeon Falls, Larche Communications of Midland, and Nickelstar Broadcasting, a new company formed by Toronto broadcaster William Wrightsell. The applications will be considered in the round of CRTC hearings beginning March 27, 2007.
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Sudbury's daily newspaper is the Sudbury Star, owned by Osprey Media. Sudbury is also home to Osprey Media's Internet operations.
A community newspaper, which publishes twice a week, is Northern Life. A Francophone community paper, Le Voyageur, is also published weekly. A light, entertaining community newspaper called South Side Story has become quite popular as well. Local communities within the city are also served by smaller weekly papers such as The Valley Vision and the Walden Observer. There are also student newspapers at the city's postsecondary institutions: Lambda and L'Orignal déchaîné at Laurentian, The Shield at Cambrian College and L'Étudiant at Collège Boréal.
Sudbury is also, along with Thunder Bay, one of the major centres of Finnish-Canadian settlement. An important historical Finnish newspaper, Vapaus, was published from 1917 to 1974.
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[edit] External links
- City of Greater Sudbury
- Greater Sudbury Development Corporation
- Sudbury Tourism
- The Real Sudbury Page
- Full Weather Data
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