Gauthier, Ontario
Gauthier is a township municipality in Timiskaming District the Northeastern Ontario, Canada. Its main population centre is Dobie, located just north of Highway 66, east of Kirkland Lake.
History
Gauthier was incorporated in 1945 as an Improvement District, and later as a township.Dobie housed the miners working the Upper Canada Mines, which produced 4,648,984 ounces of gold before closing in 1971.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Gauthier 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: 76.7%
- French as first language: 16.7%
- English and French as first languages: 0%
- Other as first language: 3.3%
Transportation
Gauthier is served by two provincial highways:- Highway 66 running west to Kirkland Lake and Highway 11, and east to the Quebec border, where it continues as Quebec Route 117. Highway 66 is part of the Trans-Canada Highway between highway 11 and the Quebec border.
- Highway 672, running north from Highway 66 past Northlands Park to Esker Lakes Provincial Park and then to Ontario Highway 101.
Railway
The railway point of Northlands Park, is in Gauthier. It is adjacent to Highway 672, north of that highway's southern terminus at Highway 66, and west of Dobie.Northlands Park was established in the 1920s at the construction of the Nipissing Central Railway line between Swastika and Rouyn-Noranda at mile 14.1. The line continues to be operated, as a subsidiary of the Ontario Northland Railway, as a freight spur.