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Manitoulin District is a
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in
Northeastern Ontario Northeastern Ontario is a secondary region of Northern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario, which lies north of Lake Huron and east of Lake Superior. Northeastern Ontario consists of the districts of Algoma, Sudbury, Cochrane, Timiskami ...
within the Canadian province of
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. It was created in 1888 from part of the
Algoma District Algoma District is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The name was created by an American ethnologist, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864), who was appointed Indian agent to the Ojibwe in ...
. The district seat is in Gore Bay. It comprises
Manitoulin Island Manitoulin Island is an island in Lake Huron, located within the borders of the Canadian province of Ontario, in the bioregion known as Laurentia. With an area of , it is the largest lake island in the world, large enough that it has over 100 ...
primarily, as well as a number of smaller islands surrounding it, such as
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, Cockburn, and Great La Cloche islands. Previously it included the municipality of
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on the mainland, until this was transferred to
Sudbury District The Sudbury District is a district in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1894 from townships of eastern Algoma District and west Nipissing District. The overwhelming majority of the district (about 92%) ...
in the late 1990s. Subsequently, more mainland portions were added to Killarney and these, together with
Unorganized Mainland Manitoulin District Unorganized Mainland Manitoulin is a former unorganized area in the Canadian province of Ontario, encompassing the small mainland portion of the Manitoulin District which was not part of the municipality of Killarney. It was dissolved and annexed ...
, were also transferred to Sudbury District in 2006, about in all.


Geography

The district has an area of , making it the smallest district in Ontario. It is in the northern part of Lake Huron, separated from the mainland by the
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to the north and by the
Georgian Bay Georgian Bay (french: Baie Georgienne) is a large bay of Lake Huron, in the Laurentia bioregion. It is located entirely within the borders of Ontario, Canada. The main body of the bay lies east of the Bruce Peninsula and Manitoulin Island. To ...
to the east. Islands included within the district are: * Barrie Island * Bedford Island * Burnt Islands (Big and Northwest) * Clapperton Island * Club Island * Cockburn Island * Duck Islands (Great, Middle, Outer, and Western) * East Rous Island * Fitzwilliam Island * Goat Island * Great La Cloche Island * Greene Island * Henry Island * Heywood Island *
Manitoulin Island Manitoulin Island is an island in Lake Huron, located within the borders of the Canadian province of Ontario, in the bioregion known as Laurentia. With an area of , it is the largest lake island in the world, large enough that it has over 100 ...
* Rabbit Island * Strawberry Island * Thibault Island * Vidal Island * Wall Island * Yeo Island


Subdivisions


Towns


Townships


Unorganized areas


First Nations reserves


Communities

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* Bidwell * Big Lake * Bowser's Corner * Britainville * Burnt Island * Burpee * Clover Valley * Cold Springs * Cook's Dock * Dinner Point Depot * Dryden's Corner * Eads Bush * Eagles Nest * Elizabeth Bay *
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* Fernlee * Foxey *
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* Green Bay * Grimsthorpe * Hilly Grove * Honora * Ice Lake * Kagawong * Little Current * Long Bay * Manitowaning * Meldrum Bay * Michael's Bay * Mindemoya * Monument Corner * Old Spring Bay *
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* Pleasant Valley * Poplar *
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* Rockville * Sandfield * Sheguiandah * Silver Water * The Slash * Snowville * South Baymouth * Spring Bay * Squirrel Town * Tobacco Lake * Tolsmaville *
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* Vanzant's Point


Demographics

As a census division in the
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conducted by Statistics Canada, the Manitoulin District had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.


Services

Like the other districts of Northern Ontario, the Manitoulin District does not have a
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or regional municipality tier of government. All services in the district are provided either by the individual municipalities or directly by the provincial government. Services are provided jointly with the
Sudbury District The Sudbury District is a district in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1894 from townships of eastern Algoma District and west Nipissing District. The overwhelming majority of the district (about 92%) ...
from its district seat in Espanola.


Media

The district is served by two weekly community newspapers, the ''
Manitoulin Expositor The ''Manitoulin Expositor'' is a Canadian weekly newspaper, published in Little Current, Ontario to serve residents of Manitoulin Island. Launched in 1879 by editor William Loe Smith, it is the oldest still-extant newspaper in the Northern Ontario ...
'' in Little Current and the ''Manitoulin West Recorder'' in Gore Bay; the papers are sister publications both owned and operated by the McCutcheon family. The district is served by the commercial radio stations CFRM-FM and CHAW-FM, the
First Nations First Nations or first peoples may refer to: * Indigenous peoples, for ethnic groups who are the earliest known inhabitants of an area. Indigenous groups *First Nations is commonly used to describe some Indigenous groups including: **First Natio ...
community radio station CHYF-FM, and the Elliot Lake-based commercial radio station CKNR-FM. It is otherwise primarily served by media from Sudbury, including the '' Sudbury Star'' and
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.


Highways


King's Highways

* #6


Secondary Highways

* #540 * #540A * #540B * #542 * #542A * #551


See also

* List of townships in Ontario * Manitoulin Streams Improvement Association - A not-for-profit group that rehabilitates streams, rivers, and creeks on Manitoulin Island. * List of secondary schools in Ontario#Manitoulin District


References


External links

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Manitoulin-Sudbury District Services Board
{{Subdivisions of Ontario