O'DONNELL

NAME: O'Donnell COUNTY: Sudbury District ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Snow in winter, wrm in summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: May-october

COMMENTS: Cross regional Rd 24 from Creighton cross Hwy 144, and follow old A.E.R. raolbed for 7km to roast beds REMAINS: Roast beds, hidden foundations of town site

Begun in 1915 to remove heap roasting of nickel ores away from populated centres (Sudbury, Copper Cliff), the settlement was very extensive until the ore bridge was constructed in 1918. Prior to the rail bridge nearly 200 worlers were employed at the yards. The town site contained 2 store, a post office(1916-21, 1926-30, hall, school, proper homes and boxcar homes lined in a neat "L"shaped village, containing no less than 600 residents. After 1918, the work forc dropped to 40, and the village shrank to 150 to 200 souls. By 1930 heap roasting was banned and Inco replaced the process by utulising mechanical roasters. Submitted by: Yvan P.Charbonneau

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