Urban neighbourhoods of Sudbury
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This is a list of neighbourhoods in the urban core of Greater Sudbury, Ontario. This list includes only those neighbourhoods that fall within the pre-2001 city limits of Sudbury — for communities within the former suburban municipalities, see the articles Capreol, Nickel Centre, Onaping Falls, Rayside-Balfour, Valley East and Walden.
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[edit] Downtown
The Downtown of Sudbury is the city's oldest neighbourhood. Bounded by Ste. Anne Road to the north, Elgin Street to the south, Brady Street to the east and Lorne Street to the west, the downtown core includes the city's largest concentration of retail businesses and offices.
An urban renewal project in the 1960s saw the downtown Borgia Street neighbourhood demolished in favour of a large shopping mall facility, now known as the Rainbow Centre, and a realignment and expansion of Notre Dame Avenue.
With retail businesses in the city increasingly locating outside of the downtown core, particularly in the Four Corners, Kingsway and Lasalle Boulevard areas, the city has struggled in recent years to maintain a vibrant downtown. Recent projects have included the creation of Market Square, a farmer's and craft market, the redevelopment of the Rainbow Centre mall, streetscape beautification projects, and the creation of the Downtown Village Development Corporation, a committee of business and government representatives responsible for creating and maintaining neighbourhood improvement initiatives in the downtown core. At various times, city councillors and community groups have proposed that the city purchase the CPR stockyards west of Elgin Street in order to expand the downtown area, although to date this has not been pursued.
[edit] Flour Mill
The Flour Mill neighbourhood is centred on Notre Dame Avenue, immediately north of downtown Sudbury. In French, the community is known as Moulin à Fleur, which seemingly translates as "Flower Mill". In the local Franco-Ontarian dialect, however, fleur is sometimes used as a slang synonym of farine, the more standard French word for flour, in a calque derived from the fact that the words flower and flour are homonyms in English.
One of the city's first neighbourhoods outside the original settlement, the Flour Mill was historically settled by Franco-Ontarian farmers and labourers. The neighbourhood's most notable surviving building, a large flour mill silo, was operated by the Manitoba and Ontario Flour Mill company.
From the early 1900s into the 1960s, the neighbourhood was frequently flooded by spring runoff into Junction Creek. In some years, the flooding was so severe that it extended into Downtown. Due to improved flood control practices, however, the neighbourhood has not experienced a significant Junction Creek flood since the 1960s.
Following the mill's closure, there were frequent proposals to demolish the silo and redevelop the property. These proposals, and their attendant controversy, continued until the silo was designated a city heritage property in 1990. The historic home of the mill's foreman was converted to a community museum, the Flour Mill Museum, in 1974.
In 2007, the neighbourhood has faced controversy as its local business improvement association has battled a city plan to widen Notre Dame Avenue, the major city arterial which passes through the neighbourhood, to six lanes to accommodate expanded traffic. The business association also launched a neighbourhood beautification plan, including adding an "avenue of trees" to Notre Dame, new benches and community banners, and the construction of a waterpark facility in the neighbourhood's O'Connor Park.
In August of 2007, the city's Northern Life community newspaper published two articles calling attention to an abandoned cement factory just off a hiking trail near the neighbourhood, which had been used as an illegal dumping ground for garbage and chemicals. [1] The factory's owners, Alexander Centre Industries, pledged to clean up the site a few days after the first article appeared. [2]
The residential Cambrian Heights neighbourhood extends northward from the Flour Mill along Cambrian Heights Drive.
[edit] New Sudbury
The New Sudbury area, centred on Lasalle Boulevard, includes a mix of commercial development along Lasalle, and residential properties on most of the streets leading north and south. The area also includes the smaller neighbourhoods of Nickeldale, Barrydowne and Lebel.
The small industrial area immediately surrounding the Sudbury Junction railway station may also be known as Sudbury Junction.
[edit] South End
The South End of Sudbury includes the urban neighbourhoods of Robinson, Lockerby, Moonglo and Lo-Ellen. The centre of the area is the Four Corners, a major commercial shopping district centred on the intersection of Regent Street, Paris Street and Long Lake Road. The Southridge Mall, located on the southeast quadrant of the Four Corners, is currently undergoing a major expansion.
The South End is currently one of the fastest-growing areas of the city, with significant commercial and residential development taking place especially in the Algonquin Road area. A significant controversy in recent years has involved the city's construction of a rock tunnel to increase the neighbourhood's sewer capacity — after a $4 million budget shortfall in the project, the city imposed a temporary levy on new development in the area.
Highway 17, the main route of the Trans-Canada Highway, passes through the South End along the Southwest Bypass. The government of Ontario has announced that the Highway 17 route will be converted to a freeway within the next decade; the highway already follows a freeway route further west in the Walden area. In preparation for the freeway conversion, an interchange is currently under construction at the intersection of Highway 17 and Long Lake Road.
There are two public high schools, Lo-Ellen Park and Lockerby, and one Catholic high school, St. Benedict, in the South End area.
The more rural McFarlane Lake and Long Lake areas may also be grouped with the South End, or may be treated as distinct neighbourhoods.
[edit] West End
The West End is the area located immediately west of downtown. Primarily residential in character, the neighbourhood is centred on the intersection of Elm, Regent and Beatty Streets. It includes the smaller neighbourhoods of Elm West and Little Britain.
[edit] Minnow Lake
Minnow Lake is a residential area centred on Bancroft Drive between the Kingsway (Municipal Road 55) and Second Avenue. The area east of Second Avenue is more commonly known as Adamsdale. Minnow Lake also includes the eastern half of the Howey Drive area; the small neighbourhood centred on Howey Drive between Minnow Lake and downtown is known as Brodie.
[edit] Donovan/Northern Heights
Centred on Frood Road northwest of downtown, Donovan refers to the area immediately surrounding the intersection of Frood, Kathleen and Beatty, which is one of the city's oldest neighbourhoods, while Northern Heights refers to the newer neighbourhood to the north between Frood and Burton Avenue.
[edit] Gatchell
The Gatchell area is centred on Lorne Street between the Big Nickel and Martindale Road. The neighbourhood's primary feature is Delki Dozzi Park, a park and sports complex which defines almost the entire northern boundary of the neighbourhood.
[edit] Copper Cliff
Copper Cliff 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. However, in many respects it continued to be treated as a distinct community — for example, postal service in Copper Cliff was never integrated into the city's urban forward sortation areas. Instead, Copper Cliff was the only neighbourhood within the city boundaries which retained a rural P0M postal code.
Copper Cliff is the location of the Inco Superstack, the tallest chimney in the Western Hemisphere, and the Copper Cliff Museum.
The community is located in Ward 2 on Greater Sudbury City Council, along with the former town of Walden.
[edit] References
- ^ Beauty and the beast: Ruins in the wilderness. Northern Life (2007-08-01). Retrieved on 2007-08-15.
- ^ Owner will clean up Flour Mill eyesore. Northern Life (2007-08-13). Retrieved on 2007-08-15.
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