The Spanish River is a river in Algoma District, Sudbury District and Greater Sudbury in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It flows 338 kilometres (210 mi) in a southerly direction from its headwaters at Spanish Lake and Duke Lake to its mouth at the North Channel of Lake Huron just outside the community of Spanish.
Mouth of the Spanish River at the Town of Spanish
Spanish River and Domtar Mill in Espanola
Sudbury, officially the City of Greater Sudbury, is the largest city in Northern Ontario by population, with a population of 166,004 at the 2021 Canadian Census. By land area, it is the largest in Ontario and the fifth largest in Canada. It is administratively a single-tier municipality and thus is not part of any district, county, or regional municipality. The City of Greater Sudbury is separate from, but entirely surrounded by the Sudbury District. The city is also referred to as "Ville du Grand Sudbury" among Francophones.
Downtown Sudbury
A Canadian Pacific Railway junction in Sudbury in 1888. Construction for the railway led to the discovery of high concentrations of nickel-copper ore at the edge of the Sudbury Basin.
Banner welcoming hard rock miners into Sudbury. Nickel mines became vital to the war effort, with Frood Mine accounting for 40 percent of all nickel used in Allied artillery production.
The Creighton fault as it passes under Science North
