The Big Nickel

Travel Day

• Mississauga, ON to Sudbury, ON via Derry Rd. E. (Mississauga), ON-410. ON-401, ON-400, ON-69, ON-46. Elm St. (Sudbury)

Yep, we are definitely back in Canada! There's a Timmies on every corner.

Southern Ontario has an awful lot of smaller farms. Along the 400 headed north from Toronto, corn seems to be a favoured crop. Most of these fields have been ploughed and are ready for planting.

Sudbury, that's where we are headed today.

While the farmers are ploughing for spring planting, the ski hills still have snow on them.

A lot of the lakes have ice on them too.

As you move further north, into the Canadian Shield, farmland turns to rocky outcrops and hillsides have fewer and fewer trees.

Then there is the mining slag, like this pile in Sudbury at the Inco mine. If you look carefully just to the right of the center of this picture, you will see the bright red strip of new slag from the smelting operations going onto the pile.

All of this mining produces money for Inco, and for Canada.

The Big Nickel. That's Sudbury.