Table of Contents

• From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City: A Historical Geography of Greater Sudbury by Oiva W. Saarinen
• List of Illustrations
• List of Biographiess
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• 1. The Unfolding of the Natural Landscape
• 2. The Aboriginal/Colonial Frontier
• 3. Drawing Lines on the Map
• 4. Forging of a Local Monopoly: From Prospectors and Speculators to the International Nickel Company (1883-1902)
• 5. Sudbury (1883-1939)
• 6. Copper Cliff (1886-1939)
• 7. From Local to Global Monopoly: The Merging of Inco and Mond (1902-1928)
• 8. Beyond Sudbury and Copper Cliff: Railway Stations, Mining Camps, Smelter Sites, and Company Towns
• 9. Beyond Sudbury and Copper Cliff: Forestry, Agriculture, Indian Reserves, and the Burwash Industrial Farm
• 10. From Falconbridge Nickel and Inco to Xstrata Nickel and Vale Canada (1928-2012)
• 11. From Company Town Setting to Regional Constellation (1939-1973)
• 12. From Regional Constellation to Greater Sudbury (1973-2001+)
• 13. A Union Town?
• 14. Healing the Landscape
• 15. Beyond a Rock and a Hard Place
• Appendix
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

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

``The title to Dr. Oiva Saarinen's new book is actually rather modest. It refers to âA Historical Geography,â and yet the book covers much broader ground from labour studies and local government restructuing to geology and landscape transformation. Saarinen is a well-respected geographer who taught for forty years at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario.... The breadth of his knowledge is evident in this work.... I particularly appreciated the maps, including those of the various company towns, and the detailed tables and aerial photos that accompany the entire text.... Anyone who wants to learn about, or teach about, the impact of resource development and the political changes that occur during annexation and amalgamation would be well advised to read this book. Saarinen may have been a long-time academic, but his writing style is immensely readable and his commentary easily blends material about local people and groups with the more technical aspects of mineral development and land survey techniques. His book will certainly interest long-term residents of Sudbury, but as a relatively recent migrant to the area I can attest to its appeal to a much broader readership.'' -- Sue Heffernan -- Canada' History, February-March 2014