The Towns and Cities
of Northern Ontario
Greater Sudbury Ontario - Rainbow Country
Sudbury Ontario... a city in
transition.
Sudbury Ontario is that old cliché, an enigma wrapped in a mystery
and surrounded by a puzzle. A traditional northern blue collar
mining town that often seems like it wants to roll up the sidewalks
at dusk, keep strangers away, and it's people in church on
Sundays. Yet, our city is filled with tourists, festivals, coffee
shops, jazz music, pubs, poets, artists, musicians, thriving
out-in-the-open gay, goth, and pagan communities, and more amazing
volunteers ready to get involved with just about anything than any
other community in this country!
If you find yourself quickly driving through Sudbury on our main
throughways you may find yourself wondering why anyone would ever
want to live here. But stay a few days and you may find it hard to
ever live anywhere else!
Sudbury Ontario, a study in
contrasts
We're a city whose main roads can easily be called, and often are,
ugly and depressing, but get off the main roads and you will find so
many parks and flowers and trees and lakes within our boundaries
that it amazes.
We're a city that leads the world in mining technologies and
services and have too often in the past used that same leadership to rain
devastation on our environment. We also have planted millions of
trees and our re-greening is attracting world
wide attention and admiration.
We have a growing number of tree huggers and vegetarians running
around making much noise and taking many efforts in connection with
the environment and re-greening and conservation. But it's often our
hunters and fishermen who lead those movements. Hunters who have
helped hunt species like Elk into extinction in our area are now
working long hours year after year to re-introduce and keep track of
the numerous Elk in our region. And, they continue to work hard to
protect them.
We will tell you that mining rules the economy here, yet our number
one employer is Education.
We still think of ourselves as a blue collar union town and will
shake our heads at "artsy fartsy" things and yet find that our
concentration of amazingly talented artists of all kinds is
staggering! Art organizations are tripping over themselves, artists
are everywhere, our musicians will transport you, independent film
makers are abundant, and festivals happen so often and regular you
may find yourself having to choose from two or three on any given
weekend.
We are a city in transition. A city working hard to become something
other than what it is perceived to be. A city of people with vision,
courage and SUV loads of style. A city whose citizens work long hard
hours of their own time to make a better future for our population
and Northern Ontario as a whole. In medicine, education, the arts,
technology, cultural diversity, human rights, ecology and the
environment we are always looking for better ways and are willing to
work for better days ahead.
Sudbury Ontario, come to shop or come to play, you may find you've
come to stay! TM
