Northern Ontario

Articles that appeared in The Story of Our Times, published in 2008 are now available online under the Sudbury Stories tab on the Sudbury Living website.   Who’s Who: Frank Cochrane, forgotten founding father Sudbury should have a monument to or a building named after Frank Cochrane. Most people might assume Sudbury’s Cochrane St. is [...]

  Jeff Fuller, Fuller Industrial Corp. accepted the award for Entrepreneur of the Year.More than 400 business and opinion leaders celebrated the achievements of 11 companies and individuals at the 27th annual Northern Ontario Business Awards Gala held in October in North Bay. Three Sudbury men were honoured at the dinner. Fuller Industrial fabricates pipes [...]

  Sudbury’s own Intercoiffure 35-year member, stylist Frank Marasco, was recently honoured with the prestigious Cheena O’Searo Award.  at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City on Oct. 20, 2013/ Thr award was a complete surprise. says Marasco. The Cheena O’Searo award, established seven years ago, is presented to a hard- working, dedicated Intercoiffure member [...]

  BY ROBIN DE ANGELIS   Sudbury Theatre Centre and Theatre Cambrian have drawn loyal audiences for many decades. Recently, however, the community’s interest in theatre has deepened with the emergence of new companies and organizations which include Encore, YES Theatre, and Pat the Dog Playwright Centre. These groups point toward an ever-growing culture of [...]

Opening day Sept. 4.   The following is the news release from the premier’s office.   NEWS   Premier Kathleen Wynne participated in the opening of the Laurentian School of Architecture today, as part of her commitment to help young people in every part of the province prepare for promising careers.   The government invested [...]

  There are about 22 species of warblers that call Sudbury home.     A friend of mine got himself engaged over a warbler. They now have two kids. A warbler you say? What is that? How can someone get engaged over a bird? The warm southernly breezes in spring, particularly May, bring us these [...]

BY LINDA CARTIER AND JOHN LINDSAY Surreal was the best description of our visit to Sudbury, Mass., a town that bears the same name as our city, however, that’s about all the two centers have in common. It was a very interesting but somewhat disconcerting experience to be in such a different and unfamiliar setting [...]

  Artists on Elgin held an awards ceremony and reception on Thursday, June 20 for the finalists of the RBC Dominion Securities Art ImpactJuried Art Show and to announce the winners of the show. North Bay photographer, Debbie Shipley, won best in show for her piece, Untitled. “It was a school trip to Upper Canada [...]

The made-in-Sudbury television drama, Hard Rock Medical, inspired by the Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM), will premiere on TVO Sunday, June 9 at 8 pm. Viewers will see places and people they know in the show which is “unapologetically set in Sudbury,” says director Derek Diorio. Sudbury actor and musician Stéphane Paquette, who director [...]

Toronto restaurateur Ed Ho started as a waiter in Sudbury and has fond memories of Deluxe’s chicken- on-a-bun.  Committed to “Think global. Eat local,” Ed Ho, a Sudbury-born restaurateur, prepared The Taste of Sudbury for several hundred people who paid $200 each to celebrate their northern roots and raise money for Health Sciences North last [...]