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The Big Nickel in 2014. The idea for the Big Nickel began in 1963 when Ted Szilva, at the time a 28-year-old City of Sudbury fireman, read in the Sudbury Star of a contest, sponsored by the Sudbury Canada Centennial Committee (Maurice Lacourciere, Chairman), asking Sudbury residents how the city should celebrate the upcoming Canadian Centennial.
Dynamic Earth is an interactive earth sciences museum in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Owned-and-operated by Science North, Dynamic Earth builds on the city's mining heritage, focusing principally on geology and mining history exhibitions. The centre, which opened in 2003, is home to the Big Nickel, one of the city's most famous landmarks. [1]
This is an incomplete list of mines in British Columbia, Canada and includes operating and closed mines, as well as proposed mines at an advanced stage of development (e.g. mining permits applied for).
Mine: Coordinates: Associated town: Owner: Dates: Comments: References: Birchtree Mine: Thompson: Vale Inco: 1965–Present In 2005 Birchtree mine was the recipient of the John T. Ryan Trophy for having achieving the lowest accident frequency of all Canadian metal mines.
This is a list of current and former company towns in Canada. True company towns are those "closed communities owned and administered by the industrial employer". [ 1 ] Other rural communities which did not function strictly in this way but were still dominated by a single industry may also be called company towns and are featured in this list.
Canada's cities span the continent of North America from east to west, with many major cities located relatively close to the border with the United States. Cities are home to the majority of Canada's approximately 35.75 million inhabitants (as of 2015)—just over 80 percent of Canadians lived in urban areas in 2006. [1]
Canada's immigration rate rises. Population is 14,009,429. The Indian Act of Canada is revised to limit coverage of Aboriginal people, excluding Aboriginal women who married non-Aboriginal men. Louis St. Laurent moves into 24 Sussex Drive, the new official residence of the Prime Minister; Labatt Blue is introduced
Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury, is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census. [4] By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the fifth largest in Canada.