Location: Offsite - buses and meeting spot, Parker Building, Laurentian Main campus
Please report 15 minutes prior to
your scheduled departure to the OAA Dispatch Hub located next to
Registration in the R.D. Parker Building
3.5 ConEd Learning Hours
3.5 AIA LU
1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
This walking tour explores the buildings, history, and character of one of Greater Sudbury’s unique satellite communities. Once the most populous community in the Sudbury Basin, Copper Cliff was a ‘company town,’ built and operated to support a single industry. Today it is a self-contained community with its own unique character and small-town flavour.
Join this guided tour as we walk the streets of Copper Cliff and observe its buildings and landscapes while discussing how life once was in a community with just one landowner. We will explore the once ethnically and socially stratified town from the site of its first mining operation, once-private community facilities, and residential areas up towards the base of the Superstack to visit the unique Little Italy neighbourhood with narrow twisting streets and homes that seem to exist with no particular rhyme or reason.
This is a walking case study. Activity level is moderately active. Please wear comfortable walking shoes. Please also bring your sun protection and dress for the weather conditions.
Learning Objectives
- Learn about the history of the mining industry in the Sudbury Basin.
- Experience a unique Northern Ontario community and discuss the hierarchy of life in a ‘company town.’
- Develop an understanding of the evolution of mining and smelting processes with respect to environmental impacts and atmospheric emissions.
- See how Sudbury’s re-greening program has rehabilitated Sudbury’s landscape and watersheds.
Alex Singbush, MCIP, RPP, currently serves as the manager of development approvals for the City of Greater Sudbury. A graduate of the University of Waterloo’s School of Urban and Regional Planning, he has worked in planning and design review for over 30 years in roles in Sudbury, Phoenix, Arizona, and the GTA. Born and raised in the Sudbury area, Alex is passionate about local history and the unique nature of company towns. Currently a Copper Cliff resident, he has explored mining townsites in the Sudbury area and other company and military towns in Canada, Arizona, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, and Venezuela.
Activity Level: Moderately Active (Wear comfortable walking shoes. Bring your sun protection and dress for the weather conditions.)