Tehkummah Explained

Tehkummah
Official Name:Township of Tehkummah
Settlement Type:Township (single-tier)
Pushpin Map:CAN ON Manitoulin#Ontario
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Canada
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Ontario
Subdivision Type2:District
Subdivision Name2:Manitoulin
Government Type:Township
Leader Title:Reeve
Leader Name:John Carter Deforge
Leader Title1:MP
Leader Name1:Carol Hughes (NDP)
Leader Name2:Michael Mantha (NDP)
Established Title2:Incorporated
Established Date2:1881
Area Footnotes:[1]
Area Land Km2:132.69
Population As Of:2016
Population Total:436
Population Density Km2:3.3
Timezone:EST
Utc Offset:-5
Timezone Dst:EDT
Utc Offset Dst:-4
Postal Code Type:Postal code
Postal Code:P0P 2C0
Area Code:705, 249

Tehkummah is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located on Manitoulin Island.

Communities

The best known community in the township is South Baymouth, the northern docking point of the MS Chi-Cheemaun passenger-car ferry which traverses the Main Channel of Georgian Bay from the community of Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula. At the dock, the provincial Highway 6, whose southern segment ends at Tobermory, resumes and continues northward to its terminus at Highway 17 north of Espanola.

The administrative centre of the township is the community of Tehkummah.

The township also includes the ghost towns of Michael's Bay and Snowville.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Tehkummah had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 131.7km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tehkummah Census profile . Statistics Canada . . 2012-02-22.
  2. Web site: Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Ontario . . February 9, 2022 . April 2, 2022.