the Sudbury Basin in Northern Ontario, site of the world's most productive nickel mines.
- 1958  [Since 1953 [the Sudbury District] has been divided for federal purposes into two single-member ridings: Sudbury, comprising mainly the city of Sudbury, and Nickel Belt.]
- 1967  He was . . . the son of a red-haired Irish miner and a patient Algonquin Indian mother . . . from Falconbridge, 260 miles up in the nickel belt.