| Gauthier | |
| Official Name: | Township of Gauthier |
| Settlement Type: | Township municipality (single-tier) |
| Flag Size: | 120x100px |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Ontario |
| Pushpin Map Alt: | Map of Ontario with a dot at the location of Gauthier |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Ontario |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Type3: | District |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Title2: | Incorporated |
| Government Type: | Township |
| Leader Title: | Reeve |
| Leader Name: | Paul Binnendyk |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Area Land Km2: | 88.41 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 138 |
| Population Density Km2: | 1.6 |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | Eastern Daylight Time |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Postal Code: | P0K 1B0 |
| Coordinates Footnotes: | [2] |
Gauthier is a township municipality in Timiskaming District the Northeastern Ontario, Canada. The township had a population of 138 in the Canada 2016 Census. Its main population centre is Dobie, located just north of Ontario Highway 66, east of Kirkland Lake.
Dobie housed the miners working the Upper Canada Mines, which produced 4,648,984 ounces of gold before closing in 1971.[3]
The railway point of Northlands Park (48.1444°N -79.8628°W, elevation) is in Gauthier.[4] [5] It is adjacent to Ontario Highway 672, north of that highway's southern terminus at Ontario Highway 66, and west of Dobie.
Northlands Park was established in the 1920s at the construction of the Nipissing Central Railway line between Swastika (Ontario) and Rouyn-Noranda (Quebec) at mile 14.1. The line continues to be operated, as a subsidiary of the Ontario Northland Railway, as a freight spur.[6]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Gauthier had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 87.98km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[7]
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Gauthier is served by two provincial highways:[9]
The township is traversed in an east–west direction by the Nipissing Central Railway line that runs between Swastika (Ontario) and Rouyn-Noranda (Quebec). The line continues to be operated, as a subsidiary of the Ontario Northland Railway, as a freight spur.[10]
Actress Sara Botsford was born in Dobie.