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 2001, the last Canadian census that recorded Valley East as a separate entity, the city had a population of 22,374.
Valley East is now divided between Wards 5 and 6 on Greater Sudbury City Council, and is represented by councillors Ron Dupuis and André Rivest.
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[edit] Communities
[edit] Blezard Valley
Blezard Valley is located in the geographic township of Blezard, and was named in the 1880s for Thomas Blezard.
[edit] Hanmer
The township of Hanmer has been around since the early 1900s and now has three churches, two secondary schools and three elementary schools.
[edit] Val Caron
Notable residents of Val Caron include former NHL player Ron Duguay, NHL hockey player Andrew Brunette and Canada's Next Top Model contestant Cori MacKinnon. Address and telephone service in Val Caron also includes the smaller neighbourhoods of Flake, Guilletville, Laurentian and McCrea Heights.
[edit] Val Thérèse
Address and telephone service in Val Thérèse also includes Elmview.
[edit] Theater
The Valley East Community Theater was founded in 1998 by Marcel Gauthier and Ron Babbin, the theater group has over 15 productions under its belt and is growing strong. http://www.valleycommunitytheatre.com/
[edit] Education
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 amalgamation into Greater Sudbury.
- Confederation Secondary School (English Public School - Val Caron) Sudbury Football Powerhouse
- École Secondaire Catholique L'Horizon (French Catholic School - Val Caron)
- École Secondaire Hanmer (French Public School - Hanmer)
- Bishop Alexander Carter Catholic Secondary School (English Catholic School - Hanmer)
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