Denison Township, Ontario
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| Location in Ontario | |||
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| Province : | Ontario | ||
| Region : | Greater Sudbury | ||
| Coordinates : | 46 ° 21 ′ N , 81 ° 20 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern Time ( UTC − 5 ) | ||
Denison Township is a formerly independent municipality and a place name for an area 20 kilometers west of Greater Sudbury in Ontario , Canada . The Vermilion Mine , which opened in 1888, is located there . The Trans-Canada Highway ( Ontario Highway 17 ) runs south .
history
Originally the area was populated by the Ojibwa Indian tribe. The first contact with the Europeans came in the middle of the 17th century when French "explorers" and Jesuit missionaries visited the area. In 1883 the area was connected to the railway line.
In 1887, Henry Ranger discovered gold and copper in the area of Denison Township, whereupon the mining company became active. The mine was closed again in 1917 and the dumps were cleared in the 1980s.
Denison Township was initially administered independently by a local council and a mayor. In 1973 the name was added to the place name Walden . Walden was created by amalgamating the parishes of Waters, Drury, Denison and Graham, among others. Dennison has also become part of the name Walden, this is an acronym of Wa ters, L ively and the nison. The proposal made originally in 1972 by the community leader of Denison Township, Gertie Falzetta, to call the place "Makada" did not prevail. Makada was in the language of the Ojibwa Indian tribe the name of the nearby Black Lake.
Vermilion mine
The Vermilion Mine is the type locality for the minerals michenerite , arsenohauchecornite , sperrylite and violarite . After the discovery of gold by Henry Ranger in 1887, the mine was initially created as a gold mine. In the iron hat , where the gold was located, the chemist Francis Louis Sperry , who works for the Canadian Copper Company, first identified the sperrylite, which explains the name. There were also palladium and silver there. In 1888 and 1898, a total of four more shafts were driven into the ground. In 1917 the mine was closed, from which a total of 6,500 tons of material had been extracted. In the course of the 1980s, the embankments were removed and in Sudbury in a plant of the company Inco Ltd. processed.
literature
- Carl M. Wallace, Ashley Thomson: Sudbury. Rail Town to Regional Capital . Dundurn, Toronto 1996, ISBN 1-55488-299-0 , pp. 304 (English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Vermilion Mine - 1888. (No longer available online.) In: Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. 2008, archived from the original on November 22, 2016 ; accessed on November 22, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ History of Walden. In: www.sudburymuseums.ca. Retrieved November 22, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Vermilion Mine, Denison Township, Sudbury District, Ontario, Canada. In: mindat.org. October 26, 2016. Retrieved November 23, 2016 .
- ↑ Heritage Museums. In: www.sudburymuseums.ca. Retrieved November 22, 2016 .
