Rainy River District


Rainy River District is a district and census division in Northwestern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1885. It is the only division in Ontario that lies completely in the Central Time Zone, except for the township of Atikokan observing Eastern Standard Time for part of the year. Its seat is Fort Frances. It is known for its fishing and its location on the US border opposite International Falls, Minnesota, and Baudette, Minnesota.

Subdivisions

Municipalities
StatusNamePopulation Mayor or Reeve
TownFort Frances7,952Andrew Hallikas
TownAtikokan2,787Dennis Brown
TownshipEmo1,252Harold McQuaker
TownshipLa Vallee988Ken McKinnon
TownshipAlberton864Mike Ford
TownRainy River842Deborah Ewald
TownshipChapple741Rilla Race
TownshipDawson563Bill Langner
TownshipMorley474George Heyens
TownshipLake of the Woods 296Valerie Pizey

Unorganized area:
Reserves:
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Rainy River District had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of −3.3% from its 2016 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.

Culture

As of 2013, the Rainy River District School Board has partnered with the Seven Generations Education Institute, the Ministry of Education, and local First Nations communities in development of new technologies and programs for revitalization of the Ojibwe language.