page_title: Nickel Centre
section_title: Garson
hierarchical_section_title: Nickel Centre / Communities / Garson
caption_attribution_description: English: Garson (Greater Sudbury municipality), Ontario, Canada
context_page_description: Nickel Centre was a town in Ontario, Canada, which existed from 1973 to 2000.
  It was created as part of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury. On January 1, 2001, the town and the Regional Municipality were dissolved and amalgamated into the city of Greater Sudbury. The town is now divided between Wards 7 and 9 on Greater Sudbury City Council, and is represented by councillors Mike Jakubo and Deb McIntosh.
  In the Canada 2011 Census, the Garson-Falconbridge corridor within Nickel Centre was counted as part of the population centre of Sudbury, while the census tracts corresponding to the former boundaries of Nickel Centre had a population of 13,232. In the Canada 2016 Census, the boundaries of the Sudbury population centre were revised to retain Garson but exclude Falconbridge, while a new population centre was added for Coniston.
context_section_description: The community is named after the geographic township of Garson, named by the Ontario Government in the 1880s for William Garson, who represented Lincoln in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1886 to 1890.
  The area was first developed in 1888 as a logging camp, by the Holland and Emery Lumber Company of East Tawas, Michigan. In that year this firm constructed a narrow gauge logging railway from Wahnapitae, establishing its main operations at Headquarters Lake, near the Garson townsite. Logs from this area were taken to the Wanapitei River and driven to Lake Huron. Eventually this track was extended north into Capreol Township.
  The Canadian Northern Railway was built through Garson in 1908.
  Garson Mine, which is now owned by Vale Inco was first developed in 1911 by the Mond Nickel Company. The defunct Kirkwood Mine was also located in Garson.
caption: Birch Street, Garson
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