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 (Haileybury, New Liskeard, Dymond Township, North Cobalt)
Towns: Cobalt Englehart Kirkland Lake (Chaput Hughes, Swastika) Latchford
Townships: Armstrong (Earlton) Brethour Casey (Belle Vallée) Chamberlain Charlton and Dack Coleman Evanturel Gauthier (Dobie) Harley Harris Hilliard (Hilliardton) Hudson James (Elk Lake) Kerns Larder Lake Matachewan McGarry (Kearns, Virginiatown)
Village: Thornloe
Unorganized areas: Timiskaming, Unorganized, East Part Timiskaming, Unorganized, West Part (Gowganda, Kenabeek, King Kirkland, Marshall's Corners, Marter, Sesekinika, Tarzwell, Tomstown)
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.
See also List of townships in Ontario List of secondary schools in Ontario#Timiskaming District
References
External links
Tembrella.com Ontario Highway 11 Homepage - Timiskaming District (community profiles) Map of historic geographic townships in Timiskaming District Timiskaming Community Health Network