Valley East, Ontario

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Valley East was a town in Ontario, Canada, which existed from 1973 to 2000.

It was created as part of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury, and took its name from the fact that it comprised the eastern half of the Sudbury Basin.

It was the largest of the six towns in the Regional Municipality, and due to population growth, was reincorporated as a city in 1997. On January 1, 2001, the city and the Regional Municipality were dissolved and amalgamated into the city of Greater Sudbury.

Before the amalgamation, Valley East was Northern Ontario's sixth largest city, ranking after Timmins and before Kenora. In 1996, the last Canadian census before the municipal amalgamation, the city had a population of 23,537.

The former city has an important francophone community. It houses two francophone secondary schools, as well as two anglophone secondary schools, the second of which opened after the almagmation into Greater Sudbury.

Secondary Schools in Valley East

Confederation Secondary School (English Public School - Val Caron), Ecole Secondaire Catholic L'horizon (French Catholic School - Val Caron), Ecole Secondaire Hanmer (French Public School - Hanmer), Bishop Alexander Carter Catholic Secondary School (English Catholic School - Hanmer)