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Nice RPPC aerial view of the early years of the mining town of Copper Cliff (Sudbury) in Northern Ontario
Label on negative: “COPPER CLIFF ONT.”
French text on back, ‘...hope receiving all my cards...’.
Based on AZO photographic paper used, dates photo from 1904-1918.
Rust spots on back, toned.
(Red text is an electronic watermark that is not physically part of the photo for sale)
Mining, then as now, required capital and Samuel J. Ritchie, a capitalist from Akron, Ohio, arrived in 1886 to form the Canadian Copper Company with several partners. This new company quickly acquired property in copper where the McAllister Mine (later Lady McDonald Mine) was established. It also brought the Copper Cliff, Stobie and Creighton Mines and it was Copper Cliff Mine, located behind the present police station, which became the first feasible producing mine in the area.
Copper Cliff was incorporated as a separate company town in 1901, and for a time was larger than the neighbouring community of Sudbury.
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