Timiskaming District

This article is about the administrative and census district in Ontario. For other uses, see Timiskaming.

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.

Timiskaming District District de Timiskaming
District
Location of Timiskaming District in Ontario
Coordinates: 47.8°N 80.3°W / 47.8; -80.3
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Region	Northeastern Ontario
Created	1912 (1912)
Government
• MPs	Gaétan Malette, Pauline Rochefort
• MPPs	France Gélinas, John Vanthof
Area [1]
• Land	13,247.40 km2 (5,114.85 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	31,424
• Density	2.4/km2 (6/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Postal code FSA	P0J, P0K, P2N
Area codes	705, 249
Seat	Temiskaming Shores

It is just west of the similarly named Témiscamingue county in Quebec, 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.^[2]

Subdivisions

City:

• Temiskaming Shores (Haileybury, New Liskeard, Dymond Township, North Cobalt)

Towns:

• Cobalt
• Englehart
• Kirkland Lake (Chaput Hughes, Swastika)
• Latchford

Townships:

• Armstrong (Earlton)
• Brethour
• Casey (Belle Vallée)
• Chamberlain
• Charlton and Dack
• Coleman
• Evanturel
• Gauthier (Dobie)
• Harley
• Harris
• Hilliard (Hilliardton)
• Hudson
• James (Elk Lake)
• Kerns
• Larder Lake
• Matachewan
• McGarry (Kearns, Virginiatown)

Village:

• Thornloe

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:

• Kenogami
• King-Lebel
• Maisonville
• Savard

First Nations reserve

• Matachewan 72

Geographical townships

• Alma
• Argyle
• Armstrong
• Arnold
• Auld
• Baden
• Banks
• Bannockburn
• Barber
• Barr
• Bartlett
• Bayly
• Beauchamp
• Bernhardt
• Blain
• Bompas
• Boston
• Brethour
• Brewster
• Brigstocke
• Bryce
• Bucke
• Burt
• Cairo
• Cane
• Casey
• Catharine
• Chamberlain
• Charters
• Childerhose
• Chown
• Cleaver
• Cole
• Coleman
• Corkill
• Corley
• Dack
• Dane
• Davidson
• Donovan
• Doon
• Douglas
• Doyle
• Dufferin
• Dunmore
• Dymond
• Eby
• Evanturel
• Fallon
• Farr
• Fasken
• Firstbrook
• Flavelle
• Fripp
• Gamble
• Gauthier
• Geikie
• Gillies Limit
• Grenfell
• Gross
• Harley
• Harris
• Haultain
• Hearst
• Henwood
• Hillary
• Hilliard
• Hincks
• Holmes
• Hudson
• Ingram
• James
• Katrine
• Kerns
• Kimberley
• Kittson
• Klock
• Knight
• Lawson
• Lebel
• Leckie
• Lee
• Leith
• Leo
• Leonard
• Lorrain
• Lundy
• Maisonville
• Marquis
• Marter
• McArthur
• McElroy
• McFadden
• McGarry
• McGiffin
• McKeown
• McNeil
• McVittie
• Medina
• Michie
• Mickle
• Midlothian
• Milner
• Montrose
• Morel
• Morrisette
• Mulligan
• Musgrove
• Nicol
• Nordica
• North Williams
• Ossian
• Otto
• Pacaud
• Pense
• Pharand
• Powell
• Rankin
• Rattray
• Ray
• Raymond
• Reynolds
• Roadhouse
• Robertson
• Robillard
• Rorke
• Savard
• Sharpe
• Sheba
• Shillington
• Skead
• Smyth
• South Lorrain
• Speight
• Teck
• Terry
• Trethewey
• Truax
• Tudhope
• Tyrrell
• Van Hise
• van Nostrand
• Wallis
• Whitson
• Willet
• Willison
• Yarrow

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.^[1]

Canada census – Timiskaming District community profile

	2021	2016	2011
Population	31,424 (-2.6% from 2016)	32,251 (−1.2% from 2011)	32,634 (−1.9% from 2006)
Land area	13,247.40 km2 (5,114.85 sq mi)	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)	2.4/km2 (6.2/sq mi)	2.5/km2 (6.5/sq mi)
Median age	47.6 (M: 46.8, F: 48.8)	47.2 (M: 46.2, F: 48.0)	46.6 (M: 45.9, F: 47.2)
Private dwellings	16,290 (total)  14,132 (occupied)	16,862 (total)  14,395 (occupied)	16,330 (total)
Median household income	$70,500	$59,630

References: 2021^[3] 2016^[4] 2011^[5]

Historical census populations – Timiskaming District

Year Pop. ±% 1921 26,657 —     1931 37,043 +39.0% 1941 50,604 +36.6% 1951 50,016 −1.2% 1956 50,264 +0.5% 1961 50,971 +1.4%	Year Pop. ±% 1966 47,154 −7.5% 1971 46,485 −1.4% 1976 43,704 −6.0% 1981 41,288 −5.5% 1986 40,307 −2.4% 1991 38,983 −3.3%	Year Pop. ±% 1996 37,807 −3.0% 2001 34,442 −8.9% 2006 33,283 −3.4% 2011 32,634 −1.9% 2016 32,251 −1.2% 2021 31,424 −2.6%
Population counts are not adjusted for boundary changes. Source: Statistics Canada[1][6]

Politics

The district seat is in Temiskaming Shores.

Along with portions of the neighbouring district, Cochrane, Timiskaming is vastly represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by John Vanthof, but a very small portion of the district also belongs to the riding of Nickel Belt. In the House of Commons of Canada, the district is divided between Nipissing—Timiskaming, represented by Pauline Rochefort, in the south, and Kapuskasing—Timmins—Mushkegowuk, represented by Gaétan Malette, in the north.

See also

• List of townships in Ontario
• List of secondary schools in Ontario#Timiskaming District