I had the honour of giving Flat Stanley a tour of my hometown today of Greater Sudbury, in Northern Ontario, Canada!

Flat Stanley was sent to visit from @thekitchenfairy and her Son for a school project to explore a bit more of Canada and the poor guy ended up in a Northern Ontario Mining town, that still has snow everywhere!

We had a guest tour guide that helped as well.

The first stop above was our pride and joy! The SuperStack! That's normal right? Towns are usually quite proud of there gigantic pollution pumping smoke stacks, right?

We went as close as we could to the bottom of it, and it's so large it took two photos to get it all in the photo!

Here's a bit of info regarding the Stack

The tower is 1250ft high, (381 meters). It was built in 2 years from 1970-1972 for a estimated cost of 25 million dollars. It is 35 meters wide at the base with one-meter-thick walls. At the top it is 16 meters wide with 25 cm thick walls. It has 937 tonnes tons of reinforcing steel buried in its concrete shell and a stainless steel liner that weighs 17,585 tonnes.

It was the tallest smokestack in the world from 1972-1987. It was even the tallest freestanding structure in Canada for 4 years, until the CN tower was built in 1976. It is now the second tallest free standing structure in Canada.

Next we had to check out the Big Nickel!, What else to celebrate in a mining town that is also know as the Nickel Capital of the World. The coin version looks way cooler than just a massive chunk of Nickel Ore, and what better version of the Nickel to use but the 1951 Version that is actually a commemorative of the naming of the element nickel by the Swedish chemist A. F. Cronstedt in 1751. The commemorative nickel even shows a picture of the Sudbury nickel refinery with it’s landmark chimney. We also took a photo with the plaque that commemorates the creation of the Nickel.

We also took a quick photo with the other side!

The Nickel is on a high point in town that also overlooks much of the city so before we left we took a couple extra shots of the town.

Our Young little tour guide also wanted to take a extra photo of the whole Big Nickel/Dynamic Earth Complex as well.

Lastly we came back home and Flat Stanley was excited to see all the snow around the yard!

He tried to fix my Son's melting snowman, but it was too far gone.

Next we headed over to the Epic Snow cave, but it was also quite melted and our attempt to stand in it failed miserably and ended in our little mishaps. Instead of playing the snow, Flat Stanley took a quick swim. And of course me being the ever ready father, I had to snap a photo first before attempting the daring rescue.

Once he was mostly dried up we took a couple last shots overlooking the yard as twilight approached.

Of course before we could finally head inside, someone spotted the farm tractor and like any young man, he had to jump inside and touch everything!

I hope Flat Stanely enjoyed his Trip to Sudbury and he'll be safely in the hands of Canada Post in the morning for his trip home