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Naughton was originally established as a point along the Canadian Pacific Railway Algoma Branch and was named McNaughtonville.
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Lively is also home to the Walden area's branch of the Greater Sudbury Public Library.Ī small residential subdivision just north of Lively, long known as "Dogpatch", officially rebranded itself as Little Creighton in 2015. Lively was the first area hit by the Sudbury tornado on August 20, 1970. Lively's postal delivery and telephone exchange also include the Mikkola subdivision, located at the eastern terminus of Highway 17's freeway segment, and the Waters area.įrom the intersection of Municipal Roads 24 and 55, Lively refers to the area extending north along MR 24, Mikkola refers to the area extending eastward along MR 55 toward the Highway 17 interchange, and Waters refers to the area extending westward along MR 55 toward Naughton. The most notable of these, the Anderson Farm, is now the Anderson Farm Museum, which showcases aspects of the history of Lively, Creighton, and Waters Township. Prior to the community's establishment, a few family farms were located in the area. It was named for an early settler, Charles Lively. The administrative and commercial centre of Walden, Lively was established in the 1950s as a company townsite for employees of INCO's Creighton Mine facilities.
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Prior to the municipal amalgamation, Walden was the largest town by land area in Canada. Following Davies' retirement as chair of the regional municipality in 1997, Sudbury's city hall was renamed Tom Davies Square in his honour. Later mayors included Charles White, Terry Kett, Alex Fex and Dick Johnstone. Tom Davies, who later became chair of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury, was the first mayor of Walden as a town. Other names were suggested, but the final selection process had narrowed the naming options to Walden or Makada, an Ojibwe name for the town's Black Lake ( makade in contemporary spelling). The name "Walden" was chosen as an acronym of Waters, Lively and Denison. The town was created by amalgamating the township municipalities of Waters and Drury, Dennison & Graham with the unincorporated geographic townships of Lorne, Louise and Dieppe and parts of the unincorporated townships of Hyman, Trill, Fairbank, Creighton, Snider and Eden. For the Canada 2016 Census, the boundaries of the Lively population centre were revised to exclude Naughton, for a new population of 5,608 and an adjusted 2011 population of 5,584. No separate population statistics were published for the more rural western portion of Walden, which was counted only as part of the city's overall census data however, the individual census tracts corresponding to the former town of Walden had a total population of 10,664. In the Canada 2011 Census, the areas of Lively, Waters, Mikkola and Naughton were grouped for the first time as the population centre (or urban area) of Lively, with a population of 6,922 and a population density of 350.9/km 2. Walden is part of the federal Sudbury electoral district, represented in the House of Commons of Canada by Paul Lefebvre of the Liberal Party of Canada, and the provincial constituency of Nickel Belt, represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by France Gélinas of the Ontario New Democratic Party. Walden now constitutes most of Ward 2 on Greater Sudbury City Council, and is represented by councillor Michael Vagnini. The name Walden continues to be informally used to designate the area. Created as part of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury when regional government was introduced, the town was dissolved when the city of Greater Sudbury was incorporated on January 1, 2001. Walden ( Canada 1996 Census population 10,292) was a town in the Canadian province of Ontario, which existed from 1973 to 2000.