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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wcoins, post: 1895427, member: 32035&quot;]30 foot Canada nickel in Ontario.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The idea for the Big Nickel began in 1963 when Ted Szilva, at the time a 28-year-old City of Sudbury fireman, read about a contest in the <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_Star" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudbury_Star" rel="nofollow">Sudbury Star</a></i>. The contest, sponsored by the Sudbury Canada Centennial Committee, chaired by Maurice Lacourciere, requested that citizens of Sudbury forward suggestions on how they would like to see the City of Sudbury celebrate the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Centennial" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Centennial" rel="nofollow">Canadian Centennial</a>. Among the many entries, Szilva put forward the suggestion for a major tourist attraction featuring a giant replica of a five-cent coin, an underground mine and a mining science centre. Szilva’s idea was rejected because the committee felt that &quot;it did not have sufficient use for the citizens of Sudbury as such&quot;.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>More here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Nickel" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Nickel" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Nickel</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]323358[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]323359[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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