Manitoulin, Unorganized, Mainland, Ontario
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Unorganized Mainland Manitoulin is a former
unorganized area An unorganized area or unorganized territory (french: Territoire non organisé) is any geographic region in Canada that does not form part of a municipality or Indian reserve. In these areas, the lowest level of government is provincial or territ ...
in the
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province of
Ontario Ontario ( ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.Ontario is located in the geographic eastern half of Canada, but it has historically and politically been considered to be part of Central Canada. Located in Central Ca ...
, encompassing the small mainland portion of the
Manitoulin District Manitoulin District is a district in Northeastern Ontario within the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1888 from part of the Algoma District. The district seat is in Gore Bay. It comprises Manitoulin Island primarily, as well as a ...
which was not part of the municipality of
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. It was dissolved and annexed into Killarney in 2006. It comprised the geographic townships of Carlyle and Humboldt, as well as the unpopulated
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of Point Grondine. The only named settlement within the division is the
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of Collins Inlet. The division had a population of five in the Canada 2006 Census, and a land area of . There were a total of nine private dwellings, mostly for seasonal use and one of which was occupied. It had no population in the 2001 census, while there were two persons living in the area in 1996.


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Manitoulin Mainland Geography of Manitoulin District {{NorthernOntario-geo-stub