From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City: A Historical Geography of Greater Sudbury

By Oiva W. Saarinen

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Oiva W. Saarinen

Chapters 5 and 6 recount the early years of the two major settlements of the time: Sudbury and Copper Cliff.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Release date: Jun 15, 2013
• ISBN: 9781554588749

Oiva W. Saarinen

Oiva Saarinen received an Honors B.A. (1960) and an M.A. (1969) from the University of Western Ontario and a Ph.D. in Geography (1979) from the University of London. 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).

Reviews for From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City

[sylviac_43 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

After a visit to Sudbury, Ontario, I was left curious about why and how this northern city was built on such rocky terrain. This book provided me with the why, but very little of the how. While far from light reading, it was never difficult, although I'll admit that I did skip the chapter on labour unrest, and skimmed some of the politics. The author presented a fairly objective overview of the city's geology, history, economy, and ecology for most of the book, saving his own opinions and recommendations for his summary in the final chapter. So now I know far more than I ever expected to know, about a city that I will probably never visit again.