District in Ontario, Canada
Timiskaming District
District de Timiskaming |
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 Location of Timiskaming District in Ontario |
| Coordinates: 47°48′N 80°18′W / 47.8°N 80.3°W / 47.8; -80.3 |
| Country | Canada |
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| Province | Ontario |
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| Region | Northeastern Ontario |
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| Created | 1912 (1912) |
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| • MPs | Charlie Angus, Marc Serré, Anthony Rota |
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| • MPPs | France Gélinas, John Vanthof, Guy Bourgouin |
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| • Land | 13,299.92 km2 (5,135.13 sq mi) |
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| • Total | 32,251 |
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| • Density | 2.4/km2 (6/sq mi) |
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| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
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| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
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| Postal code FSA | P0J, P0K, P2N |
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| Area codes | 705, 249 |
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| Seat | Temiskaming Shores |
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Timiskaming is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district was created in 1912 from parts of Algoma, Nipissing, and Sudbury districts. In 1921, Cochrane District was created from parts of this district and parts of Thunder Bay District.
The division had a population of 32,251 in the Canada 2016 Census. The land area is 13,299.92 km2 (5,135.13 sq mi); the population density was 2.4/km2 (6.2/sq mi).[1]
It is just west of the similarly named Témiscamingue county in Québec, which is also informally called a region, but is administratively part of a greater region named Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
Temiskaming District is home to several provincial parks.
History
The coureurs de bois explored and traded fur in what is now the Timiskaming District, in the 17th century.[3]
Subdivisions
City
Towns
Townships
Village
First Nations reserve
Unorganized areas
- Timiskaming, Unorganized, East Part
- Timiskaming, Unorganized, West Part (Gowganda, Kenabeek, King Kirkland, Marshall's Corners, Marter, Sesekinika, Tarzwell, Tomstown)
The following local services boards serve inhabitants of these unincorporated areas:
Geographical townships
Demographics
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Timiskaming District had a population of 31,424 living in 14,132 of its 16,290 total private dwellings, a change of −2.6% from its 2016 population of 32,251. With a land area of 13,247.4 km2 (5,114.8 sq mi), it had a population density of 2.4/km2 (6.1/sq mi) in 2021.[4]
Canada census – Timiskaming District community profile
| Population | 32,251 (−1.2% from 2011) | 32,634 (−1.9% from 2006) |
| Land area | 13,303.30 km2 (5,136.43 sq mi) | 13,299.92 km2 (5,135.13 sq mi) |
| Population density | 2.4/km2 (6.2/sq mi) | 2.5/km2 (6.5/sq mi) |
| Median age | 47.2 (M: 46.2, F: 48.0) | 46.6 (M: 45.9, F: 47.2) |
| Private dwellings | 16,862 (total) | 16,330 (total) |
| Median household income | $59,630 | |
Politics
The district seat is in Temiskaming Shores.
Along with portions of the neighbouring district, Cochrane, Timiskaming is represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by John Vanthof. In the House of Commons of Canada, the district is divided between Nipissing—Timiskaming, represented by Anthony Rota, in the south, and Timmins-James Bay, represented by Charlie Angus, in the north. A very small portion of the district also belongs to the riding of Nickel Belt.
