ABSTRACT
Mining in the popular view in Canada was a staple industry powerfully aiding Canadian development in the twentieth century. Prime Minister R.B. Bennett, visiting Sudbury in the middle of the Depression, praised the mining industry in extravagant terms. He remarked, during celebrations of a half-century of nickel-copper mining in Ontario:
Sometimes when you feel depressed, as I dare say some of you do, sometimes when you feel everything is wrong in the world, there is nothing I should ask you to think of more than Canada's mining industry if you wish to revive your faith. 1
