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Sudbury District stretches from the following communities: to the west, Massey; to the north, Gogama; to the east, Warren; and to the south, from the north side of the French River; and is bounded by the following districts: to the west, Algoma; to the north, Cochrane; to the east, Timskaming and Nipissing; to the south, Parry Sound and Manitoulin. This map may be of some assistance in figuring out the boundaries, and distances. I am just starting out with this site, and have a lot of research to do on my district's history and resources - so please be patient with me for a while! If you are aware of any organization/service that you feel should be listed on these pages, please let me know (if you know the web site address, street address, phone number or postal code also, that would be great!). The Sudbury District has a substantial French speaking population; while I do not have the capability, if someone could volunteer to translate the pertinent information into a French language version and/or send in information of interest to the French-speaking genealogical population, I would be very happy to be able to post a French language version as a part of this Ontario GenWeb site. Here is a link that provides access to scanned copies of a former Sudbury French language newspaper called L'ami du peuple. You may be able to find references to some of your ancestors in some of the newspaper articles. If, while driving through the Sudbury District, during July and August, you pass multitudes of cars parked on the highways - the area has not been evacuated - it simply means that many folks are out 'harvesting' our annual crop of blueberries - that bountiful and delicious little berry that stains your lips blue and makes it worth all of the trouble fighting off the mosquitos! And represents the background theme for this site!
Sudbury District HistoryPopulation: 166,340 The City of Sudbury (population 92,884) is part of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury. It began in the 1880s (as a small railroad junction), and timber was the main industry. Copper and nickel were discovered during railway construction, and prospectors flooded in from all over the world. The first copper smelter opened in 1880. When Sudbury was incorporated as a town in 1893, it had a population of about 1,000. By the time it became a city, in 1930, there were 18,000 residents. Today Sudbury is Canada's largest mining and metal smelting and refining centre. There are 17 mines in the vicinity. The Sudbury Basin, formed by a fallen meteor, provides about 16 per cent of the world's nickel, as well as significant amounts of copper and platinum metals. Sudbury is the commercial centre of northeastern Ontario. It is also the home of Laurentian University, a science museum, and many excellent tourist and recreational facilities.
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QueriesThe previously well functioning GenConnect Query board system has been 'destroyed' this past week. The query board now in place consists of boards combined between the old Rootsweb GenConnect boards, Ancestry.com query boards and Family.com query boards. The combined board does not appear to be working properly at this time and the usefulness of the boards now operated through Ancestry.com / Family.com which is a commerical money making venture remains to be seen.
CemeteriesThe Sudbury Branch, Ontario Genealogical Society branch has transcribed many of the area cemeteries. Check the site for their cemetery publications list. NEW! I also found a Northern Ontario Canada Gravemarker Gallery online.
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LinksSUDBURY
I didn't know that!
Things to see and do while in SudburyHistorical/Genealogical
There are many more festivals listed elsewhere although they don’t have links to specific festival websites.
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