3rd Stop: Sudbury, ON.

3rd Stop: Sudbury, ON.

Today, we arrived at our third stop on our journey across Canada. This was the city of Sudbury, ON. Here’s some basic points about this location:




Latitude/Longitude: 46°N, 80°W



Population: 157 000



Population Density: 60/km2



Landforms: Canadian Shield



Climate: Great Lakes/ St. Lawrence



Ecozone: Boreal Shield



National Parks: Pukaskwa National Park



Industries: Nickel Mining, Steelwork, Mills.



Tourism: Big Nickel, Science North, Dynamic Earth.

We started off the day by visiting a very popular tourist attraction in Sudbury; The Big Nickel. It really lives up to it’s name. The Big Nickel is about 30ft high, and is located near the Dynamic Earth Center (which I will explain later). The significance of this large sculpture is to represent Sudbury’s large nickel mining industry.
The next location we visited was a rather interesting complex known as “Dynamic Earth”. It was just a large interactive museum focusing mainly on Sudbury’s mining industry and it’s long and exciting history. I especially enjoyed this location because we got to put on the outfits real miners would wear, and actually travel down into a mine shaft for a tour in the underground tunnels. I would definitely recommend this to anyone visiting Sudbury anytime soon, it was quite a fun learning experience.


Our last tourist attraction that we went to was a large star-shaped building called Science North. Inside, there was an IMAX theatre, and a planetarium. In case you don’t know what that is, it’s basically a big room with projections of the universe, stars and planets and all that stuff, projected onto the dark ceiling, so when you look up it’s like your stargazing into the night sky. Also in Science North, there was the F. Jean MacLeod Butterfly Gallery, which is a large exhibit of different butterfly species and tons of amazing plantlife. Overall, I think it’s fair to say that Sudbury is a wonderful city, and it is a lot of fun.









Works Consulted:

Lat/Long: http://www.bcca.org/misc/qiblih/latlong_ca.html
Pop/Density: Textbook
Landforms: http://www.canadainfolink.ca/
Climate: http://www.statcan.gc.ca
Ecozone: http://www4.agr.gc.ca
National Parks:
http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/reference/national/natpks_e/referencemap_image_view
Industries: http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/com/index-eng.php
Tourism: http://www.planetware.com/tourist-attractions-/sudbury-cdn-on-ons.htm
Pictures and Maps (in order of appearance): http://www.wlra.us/wl/wlnickel.jpg
http://www.mtarch.com/mtascinhigh.gif
http://www.nostringsattachedband.org/images/SudburyMap.gif

All Other Info: http://www.wikipedia.org/
www.dynamicearth.ca
http://sciencenorth.ca/science-attractions/science-attractions.html