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In our story about Greater Sudbury, we must first acknowledge the First People of this territory. When the Europeans arrived, they made contact with the Whitefish Lake Ojibwa, “hardy self-reliant people who led a semi-nomadic life following the food cycle of fish, game and plants,” wrote E.G Higgins in Sudbury Then & Now, published in [...]

  1935 W.E. Mason opened CKSO on 780 kHz with 1,000 watts power, August 23. Studios were in the Grand Theatre building. The “SO” in the calls: Sudbury, Ontario.   Engineer Fred Eaton assisted in the installation of CKSO’s transmitter.   1936 John Farrell was named manager of CKSO. Colman Wilson joined the announce staff. [...]