Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital
Wallace-Thomson
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Description for Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital
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At the turn of the century Sudbury was a town set on the railway line, with a population of about 2,000. The community was smaller than Sault Ste. Marie and Copper Cliff to the west, and to the east, North Bay and Pembroke. Now, nearly 100 years later, Sudbury is the largest city in northeastern Ontario. it is also the centre of many governmental, business, social, educational, media, medical, and other professional services in the region.
Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital, which honours the centenary of the community’s incorporation as a town in 1893, analyses Sudbury decade by ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Dundurn Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781550021707
SKU
V9781550021707
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Ref
99-15
About Wallace-Thomson
C.M. Wallace, an associate professor of history at Laurentian University concentrating on Canadian urban history, edited City Government in Northern Ontario, a special issue of the Laurentian University Review. Dr. Wallace is also co-editor of Reappraisals in Canadian History. Ashley Thomson, a librarian at Laurentian University, is co-editor of The Bibliography of Ontario History 1976-1986, Temagami: A Debate ... Read more
Reviews for Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital
"Sudbury:Rail Town to Regional Capital contains much interest. The legends surrounding the discovery of the ore body in the 1880s are revised by new evidence."
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