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Sudbury is a mining town. It wouldn’t be what it is, wouldn’t have been filled with people, if it weren’t for the mining and smelting. But the mining and smelting destroyed the environment of this previously abundant Northern landscape into a blackened “moonscape”.

In the 1970s, the city began an unprecedented regreening project - reducing industry pollution levels, spreading lime across the land to de-acidify the ravaged soil, replanting trees and plants, monitoring the lakes and rivers. It was a massive collaboration by public institutions, corporations, and citizen volunteers. And it worked! Sudbury now boasts clean air and a thriving ecosystem.

The people from Sudbury we met carried this legacy; many of them grew up in the moonscape and witnessed nature’s revival. They chose Sudbury as a place to innovate and promote an environmentally conscious way of living. The city serves as an example of the resilience of nature.

For more on the Sudbury regreening project: www.cbc.ca/player/play/1499155011952

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Where we grew up the rocks were black and sulphur spewed from the smokestack
And noxious clouds they would come down from copper cliff with puckered lips
We’d jump up off our bicycles and stay inside with the windows closed
Until the smelting was done

Where we grew up the trees were killed just miles and miles of barren hills
And beneath our feet the tunnels deep would grow and grow entombed below
Extracting ore no end in sight the molten slag glowing at night
A desert moon with empty lakes

We didn’t know we didn’t know that what brought us here would bring desolation
We didn’t know we didnt know that what was keeping us here was destroying us


To earn our pay we had to stay though all that’s green had gone away
Our nickel sinks shipped all around our sulphur stink was world renowned
When NASA sent their spacemen here, we knew the time to change was near
Or else our fate would be sealed

Regreening Sudbury took time we had to forgive ourselves our crime
We could not change the past just change ourselves and hope to make things last
All levels of the town took part so that our kids could have a start
Here in the city of lakes

Nature she comes back strong
Still there’s much to be done

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from The Song Of Ontario, released April 13, 2020

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Matt and Jun Hamilton, Ontario

We are 1st year medical students at McMaster University in Hamilton Ontario. From July-November 2019 we are going on a road trip across the province to learn more about the places and people who call Ontario home. We seek to express what we learn, see, feel, and hear in our journey as a musical album, that captures some of the essence of life in Ontario.​
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