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Abitibi (provincial Electoral District)
Abitibi may refer to: Election districts in Canada * Abitibi—Témiscamingue * Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou * Abitibi (provincial electoral district) Places in Canada * Abitibi Canyon, Ontario, community on the Abitibi River ** Abitibi Canyon Generating Station, hydroelectric power plant * Abitibi County, Quebec, historical county in southwestern Quebec * Abitibi gold belt, a gold mining region spanning the border of Ontario and Quebec * Abitibi Regional County Municipality, Quebec * Abitibi River * Wahgoshig First Nation, Abitibi-Ontario Band of Abitibi Indians, or Abitibi, former name of Wahgoshig First Nation * Abitibi-Témiscamingue, administrative region in Quebec * Lake Abitibi Other uses * AbitibiBowater, former name of Resolute Forest Products, a pulp and paper manufacturing company ** Abitibi-Consolidated, the company that merged with Bowater to create AbitibiBowater * Abitibi (train), ''Abitibi'' (train), former name of the Montreal–Senneterre tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abitibi—Témiscamingue
Abitibi—Témiscamingue is a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. The area was also represented by the electoral district of Témiscamingue from 1968 until 2004. Geography The district includes the Regional County Municipalities of Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Témiscamingue, Abitibi County Regional Municipality, Quebec, Abitibi, Abitibi-Ouest County Regional Municipality, Quebec, Abitibi-Ouest, the city of Rouyn-Noranda and a small section of south western Jamésie Territory, Quebec, Jamésie territory. The neighbouring ridings are Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou, Pontiac (electoral district), Pontiac, Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke, Nipissing—Timiskaming, and Timmins—James Bay. History Témiscamingue was created in 1968 from parts of Pontiac—Témiscamingue (electoral district), Pontiac—Témiscamingue and Villeneuve (electoral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou
Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou (formerly known as Abitibi, Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik, and Nunavik—Eeyou) is a federal riding in the province of Quebec, Canada, that have been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1966. "Abitibi" was created in 1966, and renamed "Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik". It was abolished in 2003, and most of its territory was incorporated into "Nunavik—Eeyou", which was renamed "Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou" in 2004. Geography Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou consists of: * the Vallée-de-l'Or Regional County Municipality (population 2016: 43,226), including: Lac-Simon Indian Reserve; the Indian Settlement of Grand-Lac Victoria; ;Nord-du-Québec (Population 2016: 44,561) * the Territory of Eeyou Istchee James Bay Regional Government, including: the Cree villages and reserved lands of Whapmagoostui, Chisasibi, Eastmain, Mistissini, Nemiscau, Waskaganish, Waswanipi and Wemindji; the Indian Settlement of Ouj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abitibi (provincial Electoral District)
Abitibi may refer to: Election districts in Canada * Abitibi—Témiscamingue * Abitibi—Baie-James—Nunavik—Eeyou * Abitibi (provincial electoral district) Places in Canada * Abitibi Canyon, Ontario, community on the Abitibi River ** Abitibi Canyon Generating Station, hydroelectric power plant * Abitibi County, Quebec, historical county in southwestern Quebec * Abitibi gold belt, a gold mining region spanning the border of Ontario and Quebec * Abitibi Regional County Municipality, Quebec * Abitibi River * Wahgoshig First Nation, Abitibi-Ontario Band of Abitibi Indians, or Abitibi, former name of Wahgoshig First Nation * Abitibi-Témiscamingue, administrative region in Quebec * Lake Abitibi Other uses * AbitibiBowater, former name of Resolute Forest Products, a pulp and paper manufacturing company ** Abitibi-Consolidated, the company that merged with Bowater to create AbitibiBowater * Abitibi (train), ''Abitibi'' (train), former name of the Montreal–Senneterre tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abitibi Canyon, Ontario
Abitibi Canyon was a community on the Abitibi River in northeastern Ontario, Canada. Abitibi Canyon was part of Northern Unorganized Cochrane District, in Cochrane District. It was located northeast of Fraserdale. History The construction of the Abitibi Canyon Generating Station at Abitibi Canyon began in 1930 for the Ontario Power Service Corporation, a subsidiary of the Abitibi Power and Paper Company, today's Resolute Forest Products. Work was suspended several years later, the company went into receivership and the project was taken over by the provincial Ontario Hydro in 1933. The Abitibi Canyon settlement was established in 1930 to support the construction of the dam. In early years, construction and later support staff came by Ontario Northland Railway train to Fraserdale, then further by private siding, or used floatplanes. In 1966, a road connection via Fraserdale to Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario Smooth Rock Falls is an incorporated town in the Cochrane District in No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abitibi Canyon Generating Station
Abitibi Canyon Generating Station is a hydroelectric power plant owned by Ontario Power Generation on the Abitibi River. The station is located 80 km north of Smooth Rock Falls, within Pitt Township in Northern Unorganized Cochrane District, in Ontario, Canada. This facility is the fifth downstream hydroelectric plant of six on the Abitibi River. Designed by George F. Hardy Company, the construction of this 349 MW facility began in 1930 and became fully operational in 1936. Hydro One has a 500 kV transmission line along with a 230 kV line that runs south to Sudbury and continues all the way to Toronto to interconnect with the rest of the 500 kV network in Ontario. Abitibi Canyon community In 1930, a colony was established to house the employees of the plant and their families. About 130 people lived in the community which contained 30 homes, a community hall, skating rink, shooting range, school, hospital, general store, post office and church. By 1982, the community ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abitibi County, Quebec
Abitibi County is a historical county in southwestern Quebec. Its county seat was in Amos. It extended from the Ontario border in the west to the Gouin Reservoir in the east, and included the communities of La Sarre and Val-d'Or in addition to Amos. It was bounded on the north by Abitibi Territory, on the east by Champlain County, on the west by the Ontario districts of Cochrane and Timiskaming and on the south by Témiscamingue County, Pontiac County, Montcalm County, Joliette County, Berthier County, Maskinongé County and St. Maurice County. In the early 1980s Abitibi County was divided into Regional County Municipalities. The western panhandle section became Abitibi-Ouest MRC, the northcentral section went to Abitibi MRC, the eastcentral and southern sections went to Vallée-de-l'Or MRC, the farthest eastern section went to Le Haut-Saint-Maurice MRC (now La Tuque La Tuque (; ) is a city located in north-central Quebec, Canada, on the Saint-Maurice River, between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abitibi Gold Belt
The Abitibi gold belt is a region of Canada that extends from Wawa, Ontario to Val-d'Or, Quebec. Located within the mineral-rich Abitibi greenstone belt, the gold belt is an established gold mining district having produced over 100 mines, and 170 million ounces of gold since 1901. Timmins, a town founded in 1912 following the Porcupine Gold Rush and subsequent creation of the Hollinger Mines, McIntyre Mines and Dome Mine, which was one area in the region that experienced a gold rush, beginning in 1909. The Kerr Addison Mine in Virginiatown was at one time Canada's largest gold producing mine. Many of the towns readily acknowledge gold mining as part of their history, some being named after gold (Val d'Or means 'valley of gold', Kirkland Lake's nickname is 'the mile of gold'). One of Canada's 'large roadside attractions' is a 12-foot replica of a 1908 gold sovereign (nominally, one pound sterling) built to commemorate Canada's first gold coin which was made using gold from t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abitibi Regional County Municipality, Quebec
Abitibi Regional County Municipality is a regional county municipality in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec. The seat is Amos. Subdivisions There are 19 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & Towns (1) * Amos ;Municipalities (12) * Barraute * Berry * Champneuf * La Corne * La Morandière * La Motte * Preissac * Rochebaucourt * Saint-Dominique-du-Rosaire * Saint-Félix-de-Dalquier * Saint-Mathieu-d'Harricana * Sainte-Gertrude-Manneville ;Townships (3) * Landrienne * Launay * Trécesson ;Parishes (1) * Saint-Marc-de-Figuery ;Unorganized Territory (2) * Lac-Chicobi * Lac-Despinassy ;Indian Reserves (1) * Pikogan Demographics Population Language Transportation Access Routes Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: * Autoroutes ** None * Principal Highways ** ** * Secondary Highways ** ** ** ** * External Routes ** None Protected areas * Aiguebelle N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abitibi River
The Abitibi River is a river in northeastern Ontario, Canada, which flows northwest from Lake Abitibi to join the Moose River which empties into James Bay. This river is long, and descends . It is the fifth longest river entirely in Ontario Abitibi is an Algonquin word meaning "halfway water", derived from ''abitah'', which may be translated as "middle" or "halfway", and ''nipi'', "water". Originally used by the French to designate a band of Algonquin Indians who lived near the lake, the name was descriptive of their location halfway between the trading posts on the Hudson Bay and those on the Ottawa River. The river was an important fur trading route for the Hudson's Bay Company. Formerly, pulp and paper, centered on the town of Iroquois Falls, was an important industry in the heavily forested region through which it flows. The region also supports tourism and gold mining. The Abitibi Canyon Generating Station is located on the river at Abitibi Canyon. The experience of su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wahgoshig First Nation
Apitipi Anicinapek Nation, formerly known as Wahgoshig First Nation, is an Algonquin Anicinape community, located near Matheson in Cochrane District in northeastern Ontario, Canada. In January 2008, the First Nation had 270 people registered with the nation, of which their on-reserve population was 121. History The first recorded reference to the native people about Lake Abitibi was in The Jesuit Relations in 1640. They were a nomadic group of hunter-gatherers, whose traditional territory straddled a large segment of what is now northeastern Ontario and northwestern Quebec. Their hunting and trapping grounds extended and still extend east and northeast of Long Sault to Pierre, Harris, and Montreuil Lakes in Ontario, and on a parallel line into Quebec and as far east as Amos. The southernmost limit of the territory was a little south of Kirkland Lake in Ontario and Rouyn In Quebec. Cochrane, Ontario is the approximately western boundary. The Abitibi Indian Reserve No. 70 was cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Abitibi-Témiscamingue () is an List of regions of Quebec, administrative region located in western Québec, Canada, along the border with Ontario. It became part of the province in 1898. It has a land area of and its population was 146,717 people as of the 2016 Canadian Census, 2016 Census. The region is divided into five Regional county municipality, regional county municipalities (''French'': municipalité régionale de comté, or MRC) and 79 municipalities. Its economy continues to be dominated by Primary sector of the economy, resource extraction industries. These include logging, mining all along the rich geologic Cadillac Fault between Val-d'Or and Rouyn-Noranda, as well as agriculture. Population The 2013 statistics for the region show the following: *Population: 147,931 *Area: 57,349 km2 *Population Density: 2.6 per km2 *Birth Rate: 9.2% (2004) *Death Rate: 7.5% (2003) Languages The following languages predominate as the primary language spoken at home: *French, 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Abitibi
Lake Abitibi (french: Lac Abitibi, oj, Aabitibiiwi-zaaga’igan) is a shallow lake in northeastern Ontario and western Quebec, Canada. The lake, which lies within the vast Clay Belt, is separated in two distinct portions by a short narrows, making it actually 2 lakes. Its total area is , and net area . The lake is shallow and studded with islands. Its shores and vicinity are covered with small timber. Its outlet is the Abitibi River, a tributary of the Moose River, which empties into James Bay. The lake takes its name from the river. "Abitibi" comes from the Algonquin words ''abitah'', meaning middle and ''nipi'' meaning water, possibly a reference to its geographic location between the Harricana (from the Algonquin word ''Nanikana'', meaning "the main way") to the east and the Kapuskasing–Mattagami river system to the west. Water levels on the lake are influenced by the Twin Falls Dam on the Abitibi River. Portions of Lake Abitibi's southern shores and a section o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
