At the end of the shift : mines and single-industry towns in Northern Ontario / edited by Matt Bray and Ashley Thomson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Laurentian University of Sudbury. Institute of Northern Ontario Research and Development.

Thomson, Ashley, editor.

Bray, Robert Matthew, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Ontario, Northern--History--Congresses.

Cities and towns.

Nonferrous metal industries--Ontario, Northern--History--Congresses.

Nonferrous metal industries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Canada : Dundurn Press Limited, [1992]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores the relationship between mining and the communities it creates.

Contents:

Contents; List of Tables, Maps and Figures; Introduction; Contributors; Map of Northern Mining Communities; Part One: Setting the Stage; 1 Communities in the Northern Ontario Frontier; Part Two: Early Years; 2 A Company and a Community: The Canadian Copper Company and Sudbury, 1886-1902; 3 All That Glitters: Speculation and Development in the ""Minor"" Minerals of the Sudbury Area; 4 The Image and the Reality of Life in a Northern Ontario Company-Owned Town; Part Three: The Era of Government Intervention; 5 Building Resource Towns: Government Intervention in Ontario in the 1950s

6 Breakthroughs in Health and Safety in Northern Ontario Mines7 Government Regulation of Health Hazards in the Ontario Uranium Mining Industry, 1955-1976; Part Four: Present Challenges; 8 Elliot Lake; 9 Kirkland Lake; 10 Temagami; Part Five: Into the Future; 11 Creating a Sustainable Community: The Sudbury Case Study; 12 Fly-In Mining and the Future of the Canadian North

Notes:

"Published with the assistance of the Ontario Heritage Foundation, Ministry of Culture and Communications."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786611962111

9781554880829

1554880823

9781281962119

1281962112

OCLC:

277657703