At one time the City of Sudbury was, in addition to being a mining and forestry community, a largely agricultural based economy. Sudbury and surrounding communities were farming based and largely self sufficient in locally grown food production.
Today, Burwash is a military training ground that conducts house to house urban warfare and winter search and cordon exercises in conjunction with Camp Petawawa and the Canadian Forces Reserves. It still maintains Northern Ontario's largest herd of free ranging Elk.
While a local Sudbury Citizens Movement conducted feasibility studies on converting the abandoned land and buildings into a self sufficient intentional community in the 1980' s, the proposal did not become a reality. Photo:Ida Tuominen, in Garson.
Certainly no New Zealand kiwi's or Florida oranges at the local dry goods store in the 1930's but fresh fish from Whitefish or blueberries from Coniston.
These photo's are from farming communities that once operated within a 100 mile radius of the city - what todays food security vernacular calls a locavore diet ( food produced within a 100 mile limit).
Pictured here are Emeril Quesnel, Alida Pharand,
Emile Ménard, and Adrien Pharand, working by hand in a Valley East Potato farm.
Not only was the local economy earth based in all aspects ( Nickel, Timber, Vegetables) it was also a cash-less economy, with opportunities for 'shopping' and a consumption based lifestyle few and far between.
Often, the general store, post office or company stores were the only 'commercial' credit based establishments available in the city.
In this photo from Hervé Berthiaume and Marie-JeanneVaillancourt, in Rayside Balfour a travelling salesman is leaving the lumber camps.
All photo's are from the Greater Sudbury Public Library Heritage Digital Alliances project and can be searched through the online database at Archive Photos'
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Local Sudbury Historical Photo's
Friday, January 9, 2009
Public Meeting on Vale Inco’s Request for an Alteration of Air Standard
Public Meeting on Vale Inco’s Request for an Alteration of Air Standard
Date and Time: Wednesday January 21st, 2009, 7:00 pm
Location: Room C-11, Tom Davies Square, 200 Brady Street, City of Greater Sudbury.
People attending can park in the underground lot at the City. Parking is free after 6:00 pm.
On October 31st, 2008, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment (MOE) received a request from Vale Inco to consider an alteration to the nickel in air standard under Ontario Regulation 419/05, which comes into effect for the facility on Feb 1st, 2010.
For an Altered Standard to be considered, the facility must demonstrate that it is doing the best that can be done to reduce concentrations with a goal of continual improvement towards meeting the standard over time. As part of this request, Vale Inco hosted a public meeting on October 23rd, 2008 to inform the local community about the request.
On December 11th, 2008, the MOE posted the proposed request for the altered standard on the Environmental Bill of Rights Registry (EBR) for public comment (EBR Registry Number 010-5356).
Due to the interest expressed by the community at the October public meeting, the Ministry has organized a follow up meeting with the local community in which you will have an opportunity to learn more about the Alteration of Standards process and the framework for the Ministry’s review of the Request that was recently submitted by Vale Inco.
Public comments will be considered during the Ministry’s review. The Ministry is also willing to host further public consultation meetings over the next year at specific milestones during the review process. The purpose of these meetings would be to ensure that the local community is involved in the Ministry’s review to the extent possible, and is kept informed of the status.
If you have any additional questions, please contact
Northwatch
Box 282, North Bay P1B 8H2
tel 705 497 0373 fax 476 7060
northwatch@onlink.net
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Free Walk and Bike Tranportation Workshop
Free Workshop on Tuesday , January 13th 6:30 - 9:30 Tom Davies Square
featuring Gil Penalosa, of Walk and Bike for Life.
Gil was the commissioner of Parks, Sport and Recreation for Bogata Colombia and successfully opened 91 kilometers of car-free city roads on Sundays, the Ciclovia, where over 1.5 million people come out weekly to walk, run, skate and bike.
He also re-designed the master plan for Simon Bolivar Park (360 hectares),designed and built three metropolitan parks, 15 zone parks, 150 neighborhood parks.
The Walk & Bike for Life is a Canadian based non- profit organization that champions Trail development and healthy communities including Car Free days, bike sharing programs and complete streets putting Pedestrians in the center of urban city planning and downtown renewal.
Monday, January 5, 2009
It's time for a Declaration of Tree Rights
Trees Have Rights Too is a new campaign for a Universal Declaration of Planetary Rights by the United Nations. The idea was first proposed at a recent Climate Change Conference and has caught on. The website has videos, tree pics and a map of ongoing global actions to have trees elevated to the status of protected Earth Rights.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Climate Change Camp 2008
George Monbiout - reporter from the U.K. Gaurdian takes a look at recent Direct Action for Climate Change in a huge coal mining operation in Wales
Sphere: Related ContentSaturday, January 3, 2009
Listen to Montreal with the Montreal sound map
This project The Montreal Sound Map is a great example of Google Maps with a sound layer. A initiative of the Concordia Electroacoustic Studies Student Association with dozens of sounds the project allows you to upload your own sounds and photos as well and is ongoing.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
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