Falconbridge was always a bit fuzzy around the edges -- it was always hard to tell when you'd strayed into Garson or New Sudbury (it was easier to tell when you

Falconbridge was always a bit fuzzy around the edges -- it was always hard to tell when you'd strayed into Garson or New Sudbury (it was easier to tell when you'd left Gatchell behind and hit the West End) and there weren't too many people upset when Nickel Centre happened in the First Great Amalgamation. (The people of Copper Cliff--which was swallowed by the City--and most of what became Walden were somewhat less happy.) I haven't been back there for many years, but as I understand it, "Sudbury" can now be better defined by naming the few Northern Ontario municipalities it doesn't yet include. If the X marking the spot is not in Timmins, Espanola/Nairn, Mattawa or the Sound, but somewhere in between those points, it's probably "in Sudbury", on paper at least. (For you foreigners, that territory includes a moderately-sized urban/commercial/industrial centre, several small hard-rock mining towns, some of the best farmland in Canada, forestry, quarrying, a small inland fishery ... you know, the sort of mixture that's obviously best administered by calling the whole thing one big happy municipality.)