21 Facts About Greater Sudbury

1. Greater Sudbury has produced 81 NHL hockey players, a number larger than any European city, including Hockey Hall of Fame inductees George Armstrong, Art Ross, and Al Arbour.

2. Greater Sudbury is the only census division in Northern Ontario that maintains a system of numbered municipal roads, similar to the county road system in the southern part of the province.

3. Greater Sudbury is served by the Greater Sudbury Police Service, headquartered in downtown Sudbury.

4. Greater Sudbury is the site of the Regional Cancer Program, which treats cancer patients from across the north.

5. Greater Sudbury serves as the health care centre for much of northeastern Ontario through Health Sciences North.

6. Greater Sudbury is home to the Science North Production Team, an award-winning producer of documentary films and multimedia presentations for museums.

7. Greater Sudbury is a bilingual city with a large francophone population.

8. Greater Sudbury is the most populous municipality and census metropolitan area in Northern Ontario.

9. Greater Sudbury hosts a professional basketball team, the Sudbury Five, who play at the Sudbury Community Arena.

10. Greater Sudbury is home to the Blue Saints Drum and Bugle Corps, a youth drum corps active since 1952.

11. Greater Sudbury has numerous community theatre companies throughout the city, including its first and only for-charity theatre company, UP Theatre.

12. Greater Sudbury is built around many small, rocky mountains with exposed igneous rock of the Canadian Shield.

13. Greater Sudbury is divided into two main watersheds: to the east is the French River Watershed which flows into Georgian Bay and to the west is the Spanish River Watershed which flows into Lake Huron.

14. Greater Sudbury has 330 lakes over 10 hectares within the city limits.

15. Greater Sudbury was the fastest-growing city and one of the wealthiest cities in Canada for most of the decade.

16. Greater Sudbury is credited with the original discovery of the ore body at Falconbridge.

17. Greater Sudbury was incorporated as a town in 1893, and its first mayor was Stephen Fournier.

18. Greater Sudbury is home to a large Franco-Ontarian population that influences its arts and culture.

19. Greater Sudbury has since expanded from its resource-based economy to emerge as the major retail, economic, health and educational centre for Northeastern Ontario.

20. Greater Sudbury was once a major lumber centre and a world leader in nickel mining.

21. Greater Sudbury was formed in 2001 by merging the cities and towns of the former Regional Municipality of Sudbury with several previously unincorporated townships.