Central Manitoulin | |
Official Name: | Municipality of Central Manitoulin |
Settlement Type: | Township (single-tier) |
Mapsize: | 200px |
Pushpin Map: | CAN ON Manitoulin#Ontario |
Coordinates: | 45.7167°N -94°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Ontario |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Manitoulin |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Title2: | Incorporated |
Leader Title: | Reeve |
Leader Name: | Richard Stephens |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Name1: | Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | Algoma—Manitoulin |
Area Land Km2: | 431.11 |
Population As Of: | 2016 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 2084 |
Population Density Km2: | 4.8 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code FSA |
Postal Code: | P0P |
Area Code: | 705 |
Central Manitoulin is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is located on Manitoulin Island and in Manitoulin District.
The primary community and administrative centre of the township is Mindemoya. Smaller communities include Big Lake, Britainville, Dryden's Corner, Gibraltar, Grimsthorpe, Long Bay, Monument Corner, Old Spring Bay, Perivale, Providence Bay, Sandfield and Spring Bay.
Ontario has had a few historical claimants, by towns, for housing the province's smallest jail, the main three being: Tweed, Creemore and Coboconk. However, old jailhouses in Providence Bay, Port Dalhousie, Rodney, and ghost town Berens River have proven to be even smaller. The jailhouse in Providence Bay is now a cabin for tourists to stay at. Treasure Island, the largest island in a lake on an island in a lake, is located in Central Manitoulin, in Lake Mindemoya. The largest lake in a lake, Lake Manitou, is also mainly located in Central Manitoulin.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Central Manitoulin had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 427.61km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]