DCHP-3

nickel belt

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the Sudbury Basin in Northern Ontario, site of the world's most productive nickel mines.

Quotations

1958
[Since 1953 [the Sudbury District] has been divided for federal purposes into two single-member ridings: Sudbury, comprising mainly the city of Sudbury, and Nickel Belt.]
1967
He was . . . the son of a red-haired Irish miner and a patient Algonquin Indian mother . . . from Falconbridge, 260 miles up in the nickel belt.