Gordon/Barrie Island

The Municipality of Gordon/Barrie Island is a township in Manitoulin District in north central Ontario, Canada. It was formed on January 1, 2009, upon the amalgamation of the townships of Gordon and Barrie Island.
The township consists of the communities of Advance, Foxey, Ice Lake, Tobacco Lake, and Barrie Island. Gordon/Barrie Island also contains three lakes: Nameless Lake, Tobacco Lake, and Ice Lake.

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Barrie Island

Barrie Island is about wide, long, and had a surface area of in the 2006 census. It is connected to Manitoulin by Highway 540A, which crosses the water via a causeway at the narrowest part of the strait.
The island, named after Robert Barrie, has a significant summer recreational population.
John Gordon Lane was born on Barrie Island, the Member of Provincial Parliament for Algoma—Manitoulin from 1971 to 1987.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Gordon/Barrie Island 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.