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About Sudbury

Sudbury has a humid continental climate with warm and often hot summers and long, cold, snowy winters. The Sudbury region was inhabited by the Ojibwe people of the Algonquin group as early as 9,000 years ago following the retreat of glacial ice age. The land was known as "Baawitigong", meaning "place where waters reflect mountains" in reference to the many lakes in what is now Greater Sudbury which reflected like mirrors the hills on either side. The French were not able to fully colonize Northern Ontario beyond Lake Nipissing and their settlements along Georgian Bay; however they did set up several Jesuit missions: one at Manitoulin Island (1668), another at Sault Ste Marie (1668) plus others near Fort Albany (1686) and Mattawa River(1700).