Located in Bell Park, Sudbury's Mining Heritage Scultpure stands fifteen feet high, and offers a beautiful memorial to the contributions of so many miners - both living and dead - for more than a century.
A dead body is found on the side of Highway 17 outside Sudbury. Naked, throat slashed, no identification. It disappears from the back of a police van and begins a strange odyssey, making its way, over the course of one early winter day, all around the northern Ontario town and through the lives of eleven very different people.
In this memoir Penny Petrone tells what it was like growing up in Northern Ontario as the daughter of parents who moved to Canada from the class-bound feudal society of Southern Italy during the first quarter of the century when America was the dream of millions of Europeans.
Where else can that well-known phrase be better applied than to a study of the Finns in Sudbury? ?Rock? defines the physical reality of the Sudbury setting: rugged hills, mines, farms and forests set in the Precambrian Shield. ?Hard? defines the human setting: Finnish immigrants having to contend with the problems and stresses of relocating to a new culture, with livelihoods that required great endurance as well as a tolerance for hazardous conditions.
