Sudbury District GenWeb

Communities within the Sudbury District

There have been many communities with the Sudbury area over the past hundred years. Many of these were early railway, lumber or mining 'camps', of which no trace remains today. The first travellers through this district would have been those involved with the fur trade - they came up through the Ottawa - Mattawa Rivers, to Lake Nipissing, down the French River and over to the Great Lakes. The next migration into the area followed the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway with its accompanying lumber camps. A railway worker discovered an outcropping of nickel ore; sealing the prosperity of the City of Sudbury, growing up around the northern shore of Ramsey Lake which the CPR skirted on the east side. Sudbury was first a railway and lumbering town. Before the advent of the lumbering industry and the mining communities the area was covered with massive white pine.
Please note that this list may be incomplete - if you have any additions, please let me know! If you are aware of e-mail or website addresses for any of these communities, (whether it be about their history, origins, interesting facts, township offices etc), I would appreciate your letting me know about it. If I have missed any please let me know. (here is a more informal page about the communities and neighbourhoods )

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A	Alban Azilda
B	Benny Biscotasing Bowlands Bay
C	Capreol Cartier Chapleau Chelmsford Coniston Copper Cliff Creighton ***
D	Dowling
E	Espanola Estaire
F	Falconbridge Foleyet French River
G	Garson Gogama
H	Hagar
L	Lively
M	Markstay Massey McKerrow Metagma Milnet
N	Nairn Centre Nickel Centre Noelville
O	Onaping Ouelliette
R	Ramsey
S	Sellwood Shining Tree Skead St Charles Stinson Sudbury Sultan
V	Valley East *
W	Wahnapitae Walden ** Walford Wanup Warren Webbwood West Arm Westree Whitefish Whitefish Falls Willisville Worthington

* Valley East includes: Blezard Valley, Hanmer, MCrea Heights, Val Caron, Val Therese

** Walden includes the following areas: Whitefish, Lively-Creighton, Naughton, Simon Lake, Waters, Worthington, and Beaver Lake

*** ghost town/no longer exists