Manitoulin District is a

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within the

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. It was created in 1888 from part of the

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. 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

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, 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 } The Municipality of Gordon/Barrie Island is a township in Manitoulin District in north central Ontario, Canada. It was formed on January 1, 2009, upon the amalgamation of the townships of Gordon and Barrie Island. The township consists of the co ...

* 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 *

* Rabbit Island * Strawberry Island * Thibault Island * Vidal Island * Wall Island * Yeo Island

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Townships

Unorganized areas

First Nations reserves

Communities

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* Bidwell * Big Lake * Bowser's Corner * Britainville * Burnt Island * Burpee * Clover Valley *

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* 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 *

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* 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

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in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, 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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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

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 CFRM-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts at 100.7 FM broadcasting, FM in Little Current, Ontario, Little Current, Ontario, serving Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands. The station, a community radio outlet owned by Manitoulin Radio ...

and

CHAW-FM CHAW-FM is a Canadian FM broadcasting, FM radio station that broadcasts at 103.1 Hertz, MHz in Little Current, Ontario, Little Current, Ontario, serving Algoma District, Algoma, Manitoulin District, Manitoulin and a good portion of the Ontario Hig ...

, the

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community radio station

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, and the

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-based commercial radio station

CKNR-FM CKNR-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts an adult contemporary format at 94.1 MHz in Elliot Lake, Ontario. The station uses the on-air brand ''Moose FM''. History The station first aired in 1967 at 1340 AM radio, AM, and was owned b ...

. It is otherwise primarily served by media from Sudbury, including the ''

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'' and

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Geography

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Townships

Unorganized areas

First Nations reserves

Communities

Demographics

Services

Media

Highways

King's Highways

Secondary Highways

See also

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