Official Name: | Timiskaming District |
Other Name: | District de Timiskaming |
Settlement Type: | District |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Ontario |
Subdivision Name2: | Northeastern Ontario |
Established Title: | Created |
Leader Title: | MPs |
Leader Name: | Charlie Angus, Marc Serré, Anthony Rota |
Leader Title1: | MPPs |
Leader Name1: | France Gélinas, John Vanthof, Guy Bourgouin |
Area Land Km2: | 13299.92 |
Population Total: | 32,251 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Density Km2: | 2.4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code FSA |
Postal Code: | P0J, P0K, P2N |
Area Codes: | 705, 249 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Blank Name: | Seat |
Blank Info: | Temiskaming Shores |
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.
The division had a population of 32,251 in the Canada 2016 Census. The land area is ; the population density was .
It is just west of the similarly named Témiscamingue county in Québec, 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.
The coureurs de bois explored and traded fur in what is now the Timiskaming District, in the 17th century.[1]
The following local services boards serve inhabitants of these unincorporated areas:
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.[2]
The district seat is in Temiskaming Shores.
Along with portions of the neighbouring district, Cochrane, Timiskaming is represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by John Vanthof. In the House of Commons of Canada, the district is divided between Nipissing—Timiskaming, represented by Anthony Rota, in the south, and Timmins-James Bay, represented by Charlie Angus, in the north. A very small portion of the district also belongs to the riding of Nickel Belt.