Gardiner is a Dispersed Rural Community and unincorporated place in

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Blount Township,

Cochrane District Cochrane District is a district and Census divisions of Canada, census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1921 from parts of Timiskaming District, Timiskami ...

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. It is approximately north of the town of

Cochrane Cochrane may refer to: Places Australia *Cochrane railway station, Sydney, a railway station on the closed Ropes Creek railway line Canada * Cochrane, Alberta * Cochrane Lake, Alberta * Cochrane District, Ontario ** Cochrane, Ontario, a town wit ...

, and is the northern terminus of

Ontario Highway 579 This is a list of secondary highways in Cochrane District, most of which serve as logging roads, mine and dam access roads, or provide access to isolated and sparsely populated areas in the Cochrane District of northeastern Ontario. Highway 572 ...

. The community is also astride the

Ontario Northland Railway The Ontario Northland Railway is a Canadian railway operated by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission, a provincial Crown agency of the government of Ontario. Originally built to develop the Lake Timiskaming and Lake Nipissing area ...

line from Cochrane to Moosonee, but is not served by ''

Polar Bear Express The ''Polar Bear Express'' is a Canadian passenger train operated by the Ontario Northland Railway in Northern Ontario. Service was introduced in 1964. While designated as a passenger train, the Polar Bear Express also carries freight and is equ ...

'' passenger trains. There is also a geographic

Gardiner Township Gardiner Township is a geographic township in the Unorganized North Part of Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada. The township is the location of the mouths of Pickett Creek and the Gardiner River at the Mattagami River, and the confluence of the ...

(township) in Cochrane District about northwest of the community.

References

Other map sources: * * Communities in Cochrane District {{NorthernOntario-geo-stub