Timiskaming District


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.
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.

Subdivisions

City:
  • Temiskaming Shores
Towns:
  • Cobalt
  • Englehart
  • Kirkland Lake
  • Latchford
Townships:
  • Armstrong
  • Brethour
  • Casey
  • Chamberlain
  • Charlton and Dack
  • Coleman
  • Evanturel
  • Gauthier
  • Harley
  • Harris
  • Hilliard
  • Hudson
  • James
  • Kerns
  • Larder Lake
  • Matachewan
  • McGarry
Village:
  • Thornloe
Unorganized areas:
  • Timiskaming, Unorganized, East Part
  • Timiskaming, Unorganized, West Part
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 living in of its total private dwellings, a change of −2.6% from its 2016 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.

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.