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Jason Marcon · 4d AGO

Summer at Bell Park Beach (c.1978) Source: The Northern Life (May 2, 1979)

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Jason Marcon · 2w AGO

Aerial view of the racetrack that existed on the current site of the New Sudbury Centre (1946) The road directly above it is Lasalle Blvd. and directly below it is the CNR tracks.

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Heidi Ulrichsen · 2w AGO

Some vintage items displayed in the window of Killarney’s historic general store, which is well over 100 years old.

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Jason Marcon · 3w AGO

Elm Street looking west from Durham Street (c.pre-1943)

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Jason Marcon · 4w AGO

https://www.sudbury.com/memory-lane/memory-lane-readers-take-a-nostalgic-stroll-through-the-stacks-10531337

Memory Lane: Readers take a nostalgic stroll through the stacks

www.sudbury.com

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Jason Marcon · 1mo AGO

Rider exiting the Gatchell Line streetcar of the Sudbury Copper Cliff Suburban Electric Railway (c. late 1940s or 1950, as the streetcar was shutdown by 1951)

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Jason Marcon · 1mo AGO

https://www.sudbury.com/memory-lane/memory-lane-remembering-when-the-record-store-was-king-10465635

Memory Lane: Remembering when the record store was king

www.sudbury.com

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Jason Marcon · 2mo AGO

The Flour Mill looking north on Notre Dame Ave, which was also still Highway 69 North at the time (c.1970)

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Jason Marcon · 2mo AGO

Flood waters from Junction Creek (original caption said Nolin Creek) swirl around L'Assomption School (360 Perreault St). About 20 families have fled their homes and 500 students got time off from school (1963) *Photo looking East from above Notre Dame Ave*

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Jason Marcon · 2mo AGO

*****THIS MONTH, WITH THE 50th ANNIVERSARY, PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING FOR THIS PROJECT***** ****See the gofundme link below**** Tuesday, March 4, 1975, began like any other school day for the children of St. Albert's Separate School on Eyre Street. Teachers were welcoming their arriving students to another day of class. Children who lived nearby were walking along Eyre and Albert Streets heading for the entrance to the schoolyard, …

Donate to For memorial installation to the heroism of Gordon Lapointe, organized by Jason Marcon

www.gofundme.com

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Jason Marcon · 2mo AGO

Elm Street looking west from Durham Street (c.pre-1943)

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Jason Marcon · 2mo AGO

One of Sudbury’s 13 civil defence air raid sirens can be seen in the background of this 1966 photo supplied by reader Al Kielek, which shows the Kielek as a child during a visit with his Finnish grandparents in Sudbury. Image: Al Kielek

Memory Lane: When Sudbury feared death from the skies

www.sudbury.com

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Jason Marcon · 2mo AGO

NEW SUDBURY'S BEST KEPT SECRET: THE NORAD COMMUNICATIONS BUNKER During the Cold War, the age of paranoia from 1958 to 1974, the Bell Canada building at 1400 Lasalle Boulevard was the site of a secret North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) communications bunker, which was built on the back of the building on Sparks Street. Its purpose was to monitor the air space over North America. NORAD was a joint USA-Canada organization …

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Andrew Stuetz · 3mo AGO

Cross-posting this from The Island's Space- a Cinderella story gone wrong and why playing with dynamite is a bad idea! 💥

Photo by: Sault Ste. Marie Public Library

A little ditty, about Daniel and Laurine - a Cinderella story gone wrong and why playing with dynamite is a bad idea! 🧨

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Jason Marcon · 3mo AGO

Shopping outlets underway in Sudbury in 1973 Top: Simpson-Sears at the New Sudbury Centre 1) Grand Prix Mall 2) LaSalle Mall 3) Montrose Mall 4) Regency Mall Source: The Northern Life (Aug. 1, 1973)

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Jason Marcon · 3mo AGO

Man standing on the hill above Carleton Street looking down on the City of Sudbury; original Pearl Street water tower in the background. - Camera angle facing North (Aug. 20, 1932)

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Tyler Clarke · 3mo AGO

During an official launch at the Greater Sudbury Public Library’s main branch on Friday, 15 years of The Sudbury Star, dating 1910-1925, were released online alongside other historic publications already available.

Library releases decades of historic newspapers online

www.sudbury.com

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Jason Marcon · 3mo AGO

Let’s look at a little history of Bell Grove (aka the site of Science North)

Two Sudbury stories (one about Bell Grove, one about outdoor rinks)….with a little “Easter egg” story right next to it. (1955)

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Jason Marcon · 3mo AGO

Durham St. looking North at Larch St. (c.1940) Left to right: T. Eaton Co. Guaranty Trust, Bank of Nova Scotia, Melody Music and Christ the King Church in the distance.

Durham St. looking North (c.1940)

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Jason Marcon · 3mo AGO

Loading matte at the East Smelter yard in Copper Cliff. The copper-nickel matte was brought from the smelter in portable moulds, broken up, loaded into barrels, weighed, and shipped to the refinery, located at the time in Bayonne, New Jersey. (c.1890s)

Loading matte at the East Smelter yard in Copper Cliff. The copper-nickel matte was brought from the smelter in portable moulds, broken up, loaded into barrels, weighed, and shipped to the refinery, located at the time in Bayonne, New Jersey. (c.1890s)

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Reggie Fitchett · 3mo AGO

Science North before the boardwalk was built.

Science North before the boardwalk was built

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Jason Marcon · 3mo AGO

https://www.sudbury.com/memory-lane/memory-lane-remembering-sudburys-long-gone-palatial-post-office-10236263

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Jason Marcon · 3mo AGO

New Sudbury Centre in the 1970s. It got much brighter with the skylights added in the 1980s (especially noticeable in the hallway between Centre Court and Woolco)

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Jason Marcon · 3mo AGO

I guess as the inaugural photo for this new Space, let’s go all the way back to the beginning….. Sudbury, 1883. Around the time that the Jesuits (Fathers Nolin, Cote & Santerre) arrived. (Laurentian University Archives)

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Jason Marcon · 3mo AGO

https://www.sudbury.com/then-and-now/then-now-remembering-the-tragic-heroism-of-gordon-lapointe-10187575

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