The downtown core was the city's original neighbourhood, which was filled with early settler log cabins, none of which currently exist.

The city also attracted national press attention in the 1970s for the creation of St. Andrew's Place, a multi purpose church facility, which incorporates a small chapel, retail space and a seniors' housing apartment tower, where two historic stone churches once stood.

The farmers' market and historic CPR Ticket and Telegraph Building will be the site for Northern Ontario School of Architecture.

One of downtown Sudbury's more unusual features is a five-acre park on the hill on Van Horne Drive in the southeast corner of the neighbourhood, centred on a grotto dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes.

[6] After Romanet du Caillaud's death, ownership of the site passed to a local businessman's family, and then to a succession of community committees.

(In fact, it is the English pair "flour"/"flower" that derives from the single medieval French word flor/fleur, already carrying the two meanings.

[10]) One of the city's first neighbourhoods outside the original settlement, the Flour Mill was historically settled by Franco-Ontarian farmers and labourers.

[11] The silo is a prominent feature on Notre-Dame Ave, at St. Charles St. Other notable buildings include the Catholic parish church of Église St-Jean-de-Brébeuf and the École catholique Sacré-Coeur.

In August 2007, the city's Northern Life community newspaper published two articles calling attention to an abandoned cement factory just off a hiking trail near the neighbourhood, which had been used as an illegal dumping ground for garbage and chemicals as well as a local youth hangout.

[13] The factory's owners, Alexander Centre Industries, pledged to clean up the site a few days after the first article appeared, claiming that the facility had been abandoned for so long that nobody currently employed by the company even knew it existed until the controversy hit the press.

In the south-east part of the neighbourhood lies Primeauville, which consists of Leslie, Mont Adam, Harvey, Myles and Mountain and St-Joseph streets.

The Bell Park neighbourhood, more commonly referred to as the Hospital area, although this term is out of date as most of the hospitals have been closed, centred on John and Paris Streets running north to Worthington Crescent, south to Science North at Ramsey Lake Road, west to Regent Street and eastward to McCrea Island.

The Bell Park itself is part of his former estate land, donated to the city by the family in 1926 and hosts the finest beaches in downtown Greater Sudbury.

The boardwalk connecting the park to the nearby Science North site in the former Bell Grove, along the Lake Ramsey shoreline is named in honour of Jim Gordon.

Other notable buildings in this area include the Water Pumping Station/Hydro Building, the former residence of the President of Laurentian University, the former residence of the Grey Nuns, Science North, the Sudbury Yacht Club on Blueberry Island, Idylwylde Golf & Country Club, Health Sciences North (hospital) and Laurentian University.

It includes a mix of commercial development along LaSalle, such as the New Sudbury Centre, the largest shopping mall in Northern Ontario,[15] and residential properties on most of its streets.

The South End of Sudbury includes the urban neighbourhoods of Robinson,[16] Lockerby, Algonquin, Moonglo, Nepahwin, and Lo-Ellen.

In preparation for the freeway conversion, the intersection of Highway 17 and Long Lake Road has been converted to a full interchange, which opened in 2008.

The park was home to one of the old water towers built in the 1940s, demolished in 2011, part of a pair bookending Old Sudbury.

Minnow Lake is home to the Silver City, Sudbury Curling Club, Carmichael Arena and its skateboard park, the Civic Memorial Cemetery and Branch 76 of the Royal Canadian Legion, which boasts a WWII Sherman Tank.

[17]pg 13 After WWII, the area was settled by many Eastern European immigrants, mainly from Ukraine, Poland, Finland and the former republic of Yugoslavia.

The C1915 photo is a view of the Donovan District taken from the rocky hill overlooking Dupont Street (1928)[1]pg 14.

The area was settled mainly by Italian immigrants, who helped found the local parish, St. Anthony.

Many, although not all, streets in the neighbourhood are named in memory of Canadian Army soldiers from the city who were killed in action during World War I.

The age of the community has provided a number of smaller shops and services conveniently scattered throughout its own commercial district mainly along Lorne Street.

Junction Creek is a natural landmark in this area and is currently undergoing a transformation as the Trans-Canada Trail is being constructed through the vacant lands along its banks.

The city of Sudbury attempted to annex Copper Cliff a number of times over the next 40 years, but was rebuffed by the Ontario Municipal Board because the city's desire to gain municipal taxation rights over Inco's mining facilities in the community was deemed incompatible with federal and provincial taxation rules around the mining industry.

For example, postal service in Copper Cliff was never integrated into the city's urban forward sortation areas.