Is Sudbury, Ontario worth visiting?
When I went to Sudbury for the first time (to attend a wedding) I didn’t know anything about it. My uninformed reaction was: Wow! Lookit the landscape around here! It’s so beautiful! So barren and craggy! Weird little trees! You can see the shape of the Shield like nowhere else because the rock is laid bare on the surface and in this way it is completely fascinating. So it’s not exactly Mordor to the untrained eye. The fact that the smelters totally destroyed the landscape actually makes it somewhere you SHOULD see, since it’s such a great large-scale example of how humanity fucks up the natural environment. The town itself is a typical Canadian shield mining town, there’s a downtown strip of vague historical significance/feel but most of it is like anywhere rural and small in Canada: hard to judge with only a few days to do so. The people are nice and you may detect a faint northern Ontario accent. I say go.
