Oiva W Saarinen

From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City

A Historical Geography of Greater Sudbury

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Produktbeschreibung

"From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City is a historical geography of the City of Greater Sudbury. The story that began billions of years ago encompasses dramatic physical and human events. Among them are volcanic eruptions, two meteorite impacts, the ebb and flow of continental glaciers, Aboriginal occupancy, exploration and mapping by Europeans, exploitation by fur traders and Canadian lumbermen and American entrepreneurs, the rise of global mining giants, unionism, pollution and re-greening, and the creation of a unique constellation city of 160,000. The title posits the book's two main themes, one physical in nature and the other human: the great meteorite impact of some 1.85 billion years ago and the development of Sudbury from its inception in 1883. Unlike other large centres in Canada that exhibit a metropolitan form of development with a core and surrounding suburbs, Sudbury developed in a pattern resembling a cluster of stars of differing sizes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781554588374
• ISBN-10: 1554588375
• Artikelnr.: 36149687

Autorenporträt

Oiva Saarineni received an Honors B.A. (1960) and an M.A. (1969) from the University of Western Ontario and a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of London in 1979. He retired from Laurentian University in 2003. He is the author of Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Historical Geography of the Finns in the Sudbury Area (WLU Press, 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City: A Historical Geography of
Greater Sudbury by Oiva W. Saarinen
List of Illustrations
List of Biographiess
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. The Unfolding of the Natural Landscape
2. The Aboriginal/Colonial Frontier
3. Drawing Lines on the Map
4. Forging of a Local Monopoly: From Prospectors and Speculators to the
International Nickel Company (1883-1902)
5. Sudbury (1883-1939)
6. Copper Cliff (1886-1939)
7. From Local to Global Monopoly: The Merging of Inco and Mond (1902-1928)
8. Beyond Sudbury and Copper Cliff: Railway Stations, Mining Camps, Smelter
Sites, and Company Towns
9. Beyond Sudbury and Copper Cliff: Forestry, Agriculture, Indian Reserves,
and the Burwash Industrial Farm
10. From Falconbridge Nickel and Inco to Xstrata Nickel and Vale Canada
(1928-2012)
11. From Company Town Setting to Regional Constellation (1939-1973)
12. From Regional Constellation to Greater Sudbury (1973-2001+)
13. A Union Town?
14. Healing the Landscape
15. Beyond a Rock and a Hard Place
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index