Jogues is a dispersed rural community and unincorporated place in
geographic Way Township,
in
Northeastern Ontario, Canada.
It is about southwest of
Hearst (about 10–15 minutes by vehicle). Jogues is also a
designated place served by a
local services board.
The community is located on
Ontario Highway 583
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
...
and the
Algoma Central Railway; the railway location is also known as Stavert.
In the case of the railway, Jogues lies between the communities of
Coppell to the south and
Wyborn (today part of and on the west side of Hearst) to the north; and in the case of the highway, between Coppell to the south and central Hearst to the north.
The community is mainly French-speaking, has a church, and children are bussed to Hearst for school.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
conducted by
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ...
, Jogues had a population of 214 living in 90 of its 99 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 312. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
References
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Communities in Cochrane District
Designated places in Ontario
Local services boards in Ontario
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