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Nexus

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Northern Ontario
« on: March 21, 2021, 08:15:58 PM »
Figured I'd be the first Canadian to resurrect this page.

I'm up in Sudbury Ontario..........................not sure what else to say  :D
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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2021, 01:51:25 PM »
I'm down here in Kingston... pretty sure there is no one on this forum around me.
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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2021, 02:52:11 PM »
I'm in Kingston as well.  Been here almost 56 years,  all my life.

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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2021, 10:13:31 PM »
Cool man, do you have any pics of your car. I live north of kingston near the Yarker area.
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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2021, 06:47:53 AM »
Wow...activity on this board!!

Right on!!
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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2021, 06:47:53 AM »

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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2021, 11:46:10 AM »
My brother lives in Peterborough, So I am with you guys in spirit  :grin:
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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2021, 11:46:38 AM »
I cant remember, is Sudbury the place with the big nickle!
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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2021, 03:21:09 PM »
Sorry,  can't figure out how to post pictures.  Asked my daughter,  she couldn't either.

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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2021, 04:12:16 PM »
I had to look up Big Nickle apparently it's 30 feet and in Greater Sudbury.




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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2021, 09:35:35 PM »
No worries steve 007, also i grew up in peterborough, small world.
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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #10 on: August 24, 2021, 06:53:37 AM »
Yes that would be the place!!!

Sudbury Vale mine is the largest Nickle producer in the world so years ago when it was owned by INCO they had built "The Big Nickle" shaped like a five cent coin and it is erected at what now is a tourist attraction, but then was one of the first mines built here in the city. The area was hit by a ginormous meteor several million years ago. so long ago that the crater hole is now oval! They have also found fragments of rock and debris as far south as Michigan and Ohio and other surrounding areas. It is one of the oldest crater impact sites in the world!

I'll see if I can get a picture up the Big NIckle
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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #11 on: August 24, 2021, 06:57:19 AM »
Charlie

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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2021, 06:05:34 PM »
Cool stuff Charlie,  I was talking to my brother about that, he was there on vacation last month.
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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #13 on: August 27, 2021, 06:21:08 AM »
Oh no way!!

Very interesting!!
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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #14 on: August 27, 2021, 12:24:26 PM »
We Canadians are kind of silly having towns and cities with oversized random items that are somehow tied to the towns history. Here in Alberta we must have a dozen or more such items and I’ve see a bunch of them. 

That nickel is one of the better ones, it looks sharp, nice picture.
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Re: Northern Ontario
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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #15 on: August 29, 2021, 09:39:06 PM »
Yeah...there are quite a few across country!!
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Re: Northern Ontario
« Reply #15 on: August 29, 2021, 09:39:06 PM »
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