Copper Cliff, Ontario

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Copper Cliff is in the heart of the nickel mining industry.
Copper Cliff is in the heart of the nickel mining industry.

Copper Cliff is a community in the Canadian city of Greater Sudbury, Ontario.

It was incorporated as a separate community in 1901, and for a time was in fact larger than the neighbouring community of Sudbury. However, Sudbury had surpassed Copper Cliff in population by 1930, when Sudbury was reincorporated as a city. Copper Cliff was annexed by the city in 1973.

Copper Cliff is the location of the Inco Superstack, the tallest chimney in the Western Hemisphere.