Coleman, Ontario
Coleman is a township municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is situated in the Timiskaming District of Northeastern Ontario. The township had a population of 517 in the 2021 Canadian census.
It is located along Highway 11 and 11-B.
History
The community was first formed around 1906. The township is named after geologist A. P. Coleman, who did extensive work in the region in the late 1800s. Coleman also mapped the Sudbury Basin, leading to important nickel discoveries, and proved conclusively that the area had been repeatedly glaciated. The township celebrated its first 100 years in 2006.On January 1, 1998, the Township of Coleman was enlarged when it annexed the unorganized northern part of Gillies Limit Township.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Coleman had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.Mother tongue :
- English as first language: 72.1%
- French as first language: 25.0%
- English and French as first languages: 1.0%
- Other as first language: 1.9%