Where to Find Copper Cliff Information

City of Greater Sudbury Heritage Museums at  http://www.sudburymuseums.ca/index.cfm?app=w_vmuseum

City of Greater Sudbury Archives at http://www.archeion.ca/city-of-greater-sudbury-archives

Copper Cliff Museums Accession Listings (Photographs and Artifacts) at http://www.sudbury.library.on.ca/heritage/accession_list/ccacclist.htm

Greater Sudbury Public Library Genealogy Links http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onsudbur/ 

Greater Sudbury Historical Database at http://webcat.sudbury.library.on.ca:81/search/

Inco Triangle Digital Archives http://www.sudburymuseums.ca/triangle/?_mid_=12725

​https://cdm22003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p22003coll6

Publications

  • A Bit of the Cliff: A Brief History of the Town of Copper Cliff, Ontario, 1901-1972 by Cheryl Daminato, Margaret Bertulli, Rae Swan, Copper Cliff Museum, 1982
  • A Corporate View of Housing and Community in a Company Town:  Copper Cliff, 1886 - 1920 by Eileen A. Goltz
  • Algoma Rails, Nickel Belt Rails, 2009, Dale Wilson
  • Anniversary Cook Book Copper Cliff 1902 - 1952, Compiled by the Women's Association of the Copper Cliff United Church
  • At the End of the Shift: Mines and Single-Industry Towns in Northern Ontario by Matthew Bray, Ashley Thomson, 1996
  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Historical Geography of the Finns in the Sudbury Area, Oiva W. Saarinen, 1999
  • Bibliography of the Social and Architectural History of Sudbury, by Michael C. Kelly, Michael A. Gorrie, Brenda Kelly, Cindy Mullally, Carmen Prevost and Patti Ann Trainor of the Department of History, Laurentian University
  • Church of St. John the Divine, Copper Cliff, Ontario, Diocese of Algoma: Fiftieth Anniversary of the Laying of the Cornerstone Sunday, November 20th, 1960
  • Copper Cliff Chronic for and about local boys in the Armed Forces, Editor-in-Chief William (Citizen Kane) 'Pug' Anderson
  • Industrial Communities of the Sudbury Basin:  Copper Cliff, Victoria Mines, Mond and Coniston, Papers presented to the Sudbury & District Historical Society and published with the aid of a grant from the Ontario Heritage Foundation Publication No. 2, Sudbury & District Historical Society 1986
  • Lifting the Silence: A World War II RCAF Bomber Pilot Reunites with His Past by Sydney Percival Smith, David S. Smith,  2010
  • Polyphony.  The Bulletin of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario.  Finns in Ontario Fall 1981
  • R. L. Beattie Branch 224 Royal Canadian Legion 60th Anniversary, 1931 – 1991 Copper Cliff, Ontario, Compiled by Wm. Van Allen
  • Royal Ontario Nickel Commission Report and Appendix, Toronto 1917 Printed and published by A. T. Wilgress
  • Saint Stanislaus Parish, Copper Cliff The Early Years, 1886 – 1914, Patrick Boyle, S. J., Jesuit Archives, Toronto, 1998 
  • Sudbury Electrics & Diesels, Nickel Belt Rails, 2001, Dale Wilson
  • Sudbury: Rail Town to Regional Capital by C.M. Wallace,  1996 
  • The First 75 Years A Headline History of Sudbury, Canada by Charles Dorian, Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd., Ilfracombe, Devon; Chronological history compiled from printed records taken from the Sudbury Journal, Sudbury Mining News, Sudbury Star and other sources. 
  • The Sudbury Journal
  • The Sudbury Star: including columns 'Old Timer Tales', 'Atten-Shun' and 'Not So Distant Past'
  • The Sudbury Streetcars: The Story of the Sudbury-Copper Cliff Suburban Electric Railway Company by John D. Knowles, Nickel Belt Rails, 2009
  • Twelve O'Clock and All's Well, A Pictorial History of Law Enforcement in the Sudbury District 1883 - 1978 by E. G. Higgins, 1978
  • Ukrainians in the Sudbury Region by Mary Stefura, Polyphony 5, 1 (Spring/Summer 1983)
  • Up the Hill:  The Italians of Copper Cliff 1998
  • Vernon’s City Directories Sudbury and Copper Cliff 
  • Wuoristo- St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church Copper Cliff 100 Years, Written and Edited by Pat Koski & Bill Makinen, Central Printers, Sudbury, Ontario

On-Line Information

Automated Genealogy http://automatedgenealogy.com/index.html 
  • Evans Mine was in Snider and Waters Township, Nipissing District
  • Copper Cliff 1891 to 1911 was in McKim Township, Nipissing District
Note:  From early census of Copper Cliff it should be remembered  that most people identified as "Russians" would really  have been of Finnish descent, most  "Austrians"  would  have been Ukrainians.  Poles would have been classified as "German".

Finnish Canadian Historical Society  http://www.fchssudbury.com

Greater Sudbury and the Canadian Navy H.M.C.S. Sudbury and H.M.C.S. Copper Cliff http://www.greatersudbury.ca/agendas/index.cfm?pg=feed&action=file&attachment=3962.pdf 

Multicultural Canada http://multiculturalcanada.ca/

Ontario Genealogical Society Index OGSPI http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogspi/welcome.htm 

St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic Cemetery Copper Cliff Gravemarker Cemetery Album http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~murrayp/sudbury/sudbury/stanisrc/index.htm

Sudbury District Branch Ontario Genealogical Society http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onogs/ogs.htm 

Sudbury District GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onsudbur/ 

Thesis - Memory, Identity, and the Challenge of Community Among Ukrainians in the Sudbury Region, 1901-1939 by Stacey Raeanna Zembrzycki, Department of History, Carleton University Ottawa, 2007 http://pdf.library.laurentian.ca/DissTheses/Zembrzycki.pdf

The Mining and Smelting of Canadian Nickel, Coniston Ontario
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I_Q3RcGDps