Temagami, formerly spelled as Timagami, is a municipality in

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, in the

Nipissing District Nipissing District is a district in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1858. The district seat is North Bay. In 2016, the population was 83,150. The land area is ; the population density was , making it o ...

with

Lake Temagami Lake Temagami, formerly spelled as Lake Timagami, is a lake in Nipissing District in northeastern Ontario, Canada, situated approximately 80 km north of North Bay. The lake's name comes from ''dimii-agamiing'' "tih-MEE-uh-guh-MEENG", which m ...

at its heart. The Temagami region is known as ''n'Daki Menan'', the homeland of the area's

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community, most of whom are

Anishinaabe The Anishinaabeg (adjectival: Anishinaabe) are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples present in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. They include the Ojibwe (including Saulteaux and Oji-Cree), Odawa, Potawat ...

(Ojibwe), living on Bear Island. The official name for this group is the

Temagami First Nation The Temagami First Nation is located on Bear Island in the heart of Lake Temagami. The island is the second largest in Lake Temagami, after Temagami Island. Its community is known as Bear Island 1. Temagami First Nation (TFN) members are status ...

. However, a larger group that includes these people, plus non-status residents and some non-residents is called the

Teme-Augama Anishnabai The Teme-Augama Anishnabai (from the Anishinaabe ''Dimii'aagamaa Anishinaabe'', "the deep water people") is the Indigenous Anishinaabe community of the Temagami First Nation. The Teme-Augama Anishnabai have trapped and hunted animals in the Temag ...

. Some of the main tourist attractions within the community include

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and

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, Caribou Mountain,

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, showings of

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from the 1930s, and over of

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routes. It is also known as the staging point for cottage vacationing and wilderness canoeing trips on Lake Temagami, in

Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater Provincial Park is a remote wilderness park in northeastern Ontario, Canada, north of Lake Temagami. It is one of five provincial parks located in the Temagami area. This park encompasses Smoothwater Lake, Makobe Lake, t ...

, and vast tracts of wilderness in the area. There are several outfitters here that cater to outdoor activity. The community is home to the Finlayson Point Provincial Park, which itself offers access to Lake Temagami. An excellent view of the entire Temagami area is offered by the Temagami Fire Tower on Caribou Mountain, a renovated -tall fire lookout tower that visitors can climb for a small fee. The Temagami Fire Tower was last used in the 1970s to spot fires. The original fire tower built here was high and made of square timber. The Municipality of Temagami also includes the communities of Lake Temagami,

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, and

Temagami North Temagami North, formerly known as Goward, is a community comprising part of the municipality of Temagami in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. It is a residential subdivision centred on Spruce Drive, about north of Temagami itself. In 1924 t ...

History

Anishnabai legends describe them migrating from the east coast of North America after a warning from prophets concerning the arrival of a danger from the east. The land was divided into familial hunting and trapping territories. Since the main east-west fur trade route bypassed Temagami to the south, settlement of this area by Europeans did not come until 1834. That year the

Hudson's Bay Company The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; french: Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group. A fur trading business for much of its existence, HBC now owns and operates retail stores in Canada. The company's namesake business di ...

built a store on

Temagami Island Temagami Island, formerly spelt as Timagami Island, is an island in Lake Temagami in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is the largest island within the lake, with Bear Island coming second. The island has many hiking trails that lead into the old-g ...

, which later relocated to Bear Island. The town itself was founded by Dan O'Connor, who in 1903 formed the O'Connor Steamboat and Hotel Company on the lake and established its first store on the future townsite. By 1906, he had built three hotels on Lake Temagami: Hotel Ronnoco, Temagami Inn, and Lady Evelyn Hotel and by 1910 the company operated ten steamships on the lake including the ''

Belle of Temagami ''Belle of Temagami'', generally referred to as ''Belle'', was a wooden steamboat built and used in Temagami, Ontario, Canada during the first half of the 20th century. She operated as a passenger steamer on Lake Temagami where she brought travell ...

''. Discoveries of

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copper Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pinkis ...

nickel Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive but large pieces are slow ...

, and particularly

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in 1903, brought mining to nearby

Cobalt Cobalt is a chemical element with the symbol Co and atomic number 27. As with nickel, cobalt is found in the Earth's crust only in a chemically combined form, save for small deposits found in alloys of natural meteoric iron. The free element, p ...

and accelerated development of the region. Several mines opened in Temagami, including

Big Dan Mine Big Dan Mine is an abandoned underground mine in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located about southwest of Net Lake and just west of the Ontario Northland Railway in east-central Strathy Township. It is named after Dan O'Connor, who firs ...

, Little Dan Mine,

Barton Mine Barton Mine, also known as Net Lake Mine, is an abandoned surface and underground mine in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located about north of the Temagami Arena in Temagami North and just east of the Ontario Northland Railway in northwest ...

Hermiston-McCauley Mine Hermiston-McCauley Mine is a large abandoned underground gold mine in Strathy Township of Temagami, Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located between the southwestern arm of Net Lake and the south arm of Kanichee Lake. History Hermiston-McCaul ...

Temagami-Lorrain Mine Temagami-Lorrain Mine is an abandoned surface and underground mine in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located about northeast of the town of Temagami near Sauvé Lake in central Cassels Township. It is named after the Temagami-Lorrain Mining ...

Priest Mine Priest Mine is an abandoned surface and underground mine in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located about northwest of the hamlet of Marten River on an island in north-central Cross Lake. Dating back to the early 1900s, it is one of the old ...

Beanland Mine Beanland Mine, also known as Clenor Mine, is an abandoned surface and underground mine in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located about west of Arsenic Lake and northwest of the town of Temagami in central Strathy Township. It is named after ...

Sherman Mine Sherman Mine is a closed open pit mine in Temagami, Ontario, Canada. It was a major producer of iron ore, starting production in 1968 and closing in 1990. Sherman was the largest open pit mine in Temagami, consisting of seven open pits known as ...

Kanichee Mine The Kanichee Mine, also less commonly known as the Ajax Mine, is an abandoned base metal and precious metal mining, mine, located in the Temagami, Ontario, Temagami region of northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is near the small unincorporated commun ...

, Northland Pyrite Mine and

Copperfields Mine Copperfields Mine, originally known as Temagami Mine, is an abandoned copper and silver mine on Temagami Island in Lake Temagami, Ontario, Canada. The mine opened in 1955 and comprises both underground and surface workings within a sulfide ore b ...

, which once mined the richest

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in Canada. The Forest Reserves Act of 1898 established the Temagami Forest Reserve. Because of this reserve, the region was home to the last Old-growth forests in Ontario. Logging of the vast

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stands only began in the 1920s. Now just a few patches of old growth remain, including the White Bear Forest () and the world's largest stand of old-growth

and white pine forest - the

Obabika Old-Growth Forest Obabika old-growth forest is an Eastern White Pine and Red Pine dominated old-growth forest at the north end of Obabika Lake, just west of the Temagami region of Ontario, Canada. At in size, it is commonly considered to be the largest remaining w ...

or Wakimika Triangle Forest part of the Obabika River Waterway Provincial Park (). This has led to confrontation in recent years between

loggers Lumberjacks are mostly North American workers in the logging industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into forest products. The term usually refers to loggers in the era (before 1945 in the Unite ...

and

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when new logging access roads are built or major logging operations are proposed. Access to many old-growth areas is provided on local

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trails and canoe routes. The inspiration and wonder of the area were brought to millions around the world in 1907 when

arrived in Temagami. He was employed by Keewaydin Canoe Camp as a guide, and later by the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests as a

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. His subsequent books and extensive lecturing in Britain and the United States brought tremendous attention to northeastern Ontario and

wildlife conservation Wildlife conservation refers to the practice of protecting wild species and their habitats in order to maintain healthy wildlife species or populations and to restore, protect or enhance natural ecosystems. Major threats to wildlife include habita ...

. In 1968, Temagami was incorporated, first as an Improvement District, and 10 years later as a

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, consisting of the geographic townships of Strathy and Strathcona, together with parts of Briggs,

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, Best, Cassels, and Yates townships. In 1973, The

(TAA) exercised a land caution against development on the Crown land of , most of the Temagami area. The Attorney General of Ontario pursued legal action against the Band for this caution. The TAA lost this court case in 1984 and the Band proceeded with an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Band lost this appeal and eventually the caution was lifted. In 1988, the

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approved the expansion of the

Red Squirrel Road Red Squirrel Road, also called the Red Squirrel logging road and formerly called the Johns-Manville Road, is a logging road located within the Municipality of Temagami, Nipissing District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It runs from Whitefish Ba ...

, directly through Anishnabe territory. This prompted a series of

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s by the TAA and by the Temagami Wilderness Society in 1988-1989. The Temagami First Nation's former chief

Gary Potts Gary Potts (Dec. 1, 1944 – June 3, 2020) was a chief of the Temagami First Nation and the Teme-Augama Anishnabai in Temagami, Ontario, Canada. He was chief in August 1973 when the Temagami Land Caution began with land claims being filed with tit ...

was the leader of the TAA blockades. In 1991 the TAA and the Ontario government created the Wendaban Stewardship Authority to decide what to do with the four townships near the logging road. On January 1, 1998, the Township of Temagami was greatly enlarged through the merger with 17 unincorporated townships and became the Municipality of Temagami with town status.

Transportation

Rail

Temagami Railway Station In the summer of 1905, the

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(now the Ontario Northland Railway) was completed from North Bay to New Liskeard and allowed direct access to the area and the

Clay Belt The Clay Belt is a vast tract of fertile soil stretching between the Cochrane District in Ontario, and Abitibi County in Quebec, covering in total with of that in Ontario. It is generally subdivided into the Great Clay Belt to the north runni ...

around

Lake Timiskaming Lake Timiskaming or Lake Temiskaming (french: Lac Témiscamingue) is a large freshwater lake on the provincial boundary between Ontario and Quebec, Canada. The lake, which forms part of the Ottawa River, is in length and covers an area of ...

, opening up the region to settlement and development. The original Temagami station, which opened in 1907, burnt down in 1909 and was rebuilt. Temagami station was a stop on the ''

Northlander The ''Northlander'' was a passenger train operated by the Ontario Northland Railway in Ontario, Canada. The ''Northlander'' operated six days per week year-round in both directions and connected Cochrane with Toronto. The train typically consi ...

'' railway service before it was cancelled in 2012.

Bus

Temagami is served by

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's intercity motor coach service along its North Bay– Hearst route, which also serves many communities along the former ''Northlander'' route. There is currently no local bus service in Temagami.

Geography

The Temagami land is part of the Canadian Shield, one of the largest single exposure of Precambrian rocks in the world which were formed after the Earth's crust cooled. Temagami land has striking similarities to the

Sudbury Structure The Sudbury Basin (), also known as Sudbury Structure or the Sudbury Nickel Irruptive, is a major geological structure in Ontario, Canada. It is the third-largest known impact crater or astrobleme on Earth, as well as one of the oldest. The cr ...

, which is one of the richest mining camps in the world. The hills in the Temagami area are remnants of the oldest

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arise ...

s in North America that date back during the Precambrian era. These enormous mountains were taller than any that exist today. The uplifting was accomplished as enormous pressure caused the earth to buckle in a process called

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. Other processes, such as

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and geologic faulting in which the earth cracks open also contributed to the formation of these mountains. Over millions of years, these enormous mountains were gradually

eroded Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location where it is deposited. Erosion is disti ...

to the land we know today in Temagami. The rocks that form Temagami to this day are

igneous Igneous rock (derived from the Latin word ''ignis'' meaning fire), or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic. Igneous rock is formed through the cooling and solidification of magma or ...

metamorphic Metamorphic rocks arise from the transformation of existing rock to new types of rock in a process called metamorphism. The original rock (protolith) is subjected to temperatures greater than and, often, elevated pressure of or more, causi ...

and

sedimentary rock Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation. Sedimentation is the collective name for processes that cause these particles ...

. The Temagami area has good potential to host

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iferous

kimberlite Kimberlite is an igneous rock and a rare variant of peridotite. It is most commonly known to be the main host matrix for diamonds. It is named after the town of Kimberley in South Africa, where the discovery of an diamond called the Star of S ...

s and more diamond bearing kimberlites may continue to be discovered in the area. The Temagami area also contains some

pillow lava Pillow lavas are lavas that contain characteristic pillow-shaped structures that are attributed to the extrusion of the lava underwater, or ''subaqueous extrusion''. Pillow lavas in volcanic rock are characterized by thick sequences of discont ...

about 2 billion years old, indicating that great submarine volcanoes existed during the early stages of the formation of the Earth's crust. There are a number of northwest trending faults in the Temagami East claim block area and are associated with the

Saint Lawrence rift system The Saint Lawrence rift system is a seismically active zone paralleling the Saint Lawrence River. The rift system trends northeast and southwest and forms a half-graben that links the Ottawa-Bonnechere and the Saguenay grabens. The rift system e ...

and remains seismically active. The most recently felt

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in the Temagami area occurred in the year 2000. Minerals in the Temagami area include

aragonite Aragonite is a carbonate mineral, one of the three most common naturally occurring crystal forms of calcium carbonate, (the other forms being the minerals calcite and vaterite). It is formed by biological and physical processes, including pre ...

brochantite Brochantite is a sulfate mineral, one of a number of cupric sulfates. Its chemical formula is Cu4SO4(OH)6. Formed in arid climates or in rapidly oxidizing copper sulfide deposits, it was named by Armand Lévy for his fellow Frenchman, geologist ...

, calcite,

Chalcopyrite Chalcopyrite ( ) is a copper iron sulfide mineral and the most abundant copper ore mineral. It has the chemical formula CuFeS2 and crystallizes in the tetragonal system. It has a brassy to golden yellow color and a hardness of 3.5 to 4 on the Mo ...

jasper Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases,Kostov, R. I. 2010. Review on the mineralogical systematics of jasper and related rocks. – Archaeometry Workshop, 7, 3, 209-213PDF/ref> ...

magnetite Magnetite is a mineral and one of the main iron ores, with the chemical formula Fe2+Fe3+2O4. It is one of the oxides of iron, and is ferrimagnetic; it is attracted to a magnet and can be magnetized to become a permanent magnet itself. With th ...

molybdenite Molybdenite is a mineral of molybdenum disulfide, Mo S2. Similar in appearance and feel to graphite, molybdenite has a lubricating effect that is a consequence of its layered structure. The atomic structure consists of a sheet of molybdenum ato ...

pentlandite Pentlandite is an iron–nickel sulfide with the chemical formula . Pentlandite has a narrow variation range in Ni:Fe but it is usually described as having a Ni:Fe of 1:1. It also contains minor cobalt, usually at low levels as a fraction of wei ...

pyrite The mineral pyrite (), or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula Fe S2 (iron (II) disulfide). Pyrite is the most abundant sulfide mineral. Pyrite's metallic luster and pale brass-yellow hue giv ...

pyrrhotite Pyrrhotite is an iron sulfide mineral with the formula Fe(1-x)S (x = 0 to 0.2). It is a nonstoichiometric variant of FeS, the mineral known as troilite. Pyrrhotite is also called magnetic pyrite, because the color is similar to pyrite and it i ...

, serpentine, and

talc Talc, or talcum, is a clay mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate with the chemical formula Mg3Si4O10(OH)2. Talc in powdered form, often combined with corn starch, is used as baby powder. This mineral is used as a thickening agent a ...

. A bright white

palladium Palladium is a chemical element with the symbol Pd and atomic number 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself na ...

mercury telluride mineral was discovered on

in 1973 called

temagamite Temagamite is a bright white palladium mercury telluride mineral with a hardness of on the Mohs scale. Its chemical formula is Pd3 Hg Te3. It was discovered at the Temagami Mine on Temagami Island, Lake Temagami in 1973, and it represents a ...

, named after its discovery locality in

, originally known as Temagami Mine. Temagami provides rugged

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, which is excellent for canoeing and

. There are numerous viewpoints in the municipality, including High Rock and Caribou Mountain, which contains a fire tower on its summit.

Lakes

Lakes located within the Municipality of Temagami include: * Angus Lake * Anima Nipissing Lake * Arsenic Lake * Blueberry Lake * Brophy Lake *

Cassels Lake Cassels Lake (originally known as White Bear Lake) is a lake located within the Municipality of Temagami, in the Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. It contains numerous portages, campsites and is one of three lakes on the eastern edge of the Whi ...

* Chambers Lake *

Cross Lake Cross Lake is a lake on the border of Cayuga and Onondaga Counties in New York, United States. The lake lies within the boundaries of the traditional Onondaga Indian Nation, and is reputed in local tradition to be the boyhood home of Hiawatha, ...

* Duncan Lake * Gull Lake * Herridge Lake *

Ingall Lake Ingall is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Francis Ingall (1908–1998), British Indian Army officer * Lisa Ingall (born 1980), English snooker player * Marjorie Ingall (born 20th century), American non-fiction writer * Micha ...

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Jumping Cariboo Lake Jumping Cariboo Lake, sometimes incorrectly spelled Jumping Caribou Lake, is a lake located within the Municipality of Temagami, in the Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. It contains small islands and hidden bays. Ojibwa natives of the area hav ...

* Link Lake * Lowell Lake *

Lower Redwater Lake Lower Redwater Lake is a freshwater lake in the municipality of Temagami of Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is located near the settlement of Redwater. The prima‌ry outflow is the Marten River. See also *Lakes of Temagami There are more tha ...

* Lower Twin Lake * Martin Lake *

Net Lake Net Lake is located within the municipality of Temagami, in the Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. It covers a length of 10 km and is located in Temagami North. Fish in the lake include walleye, northern pike, trout, smallmouth bass, whit ...

* Obabika Lake * Obashkong Lake * Poison Pond * Rabbit Lake * Rib Lake *

Red Squirrel Lake Red Squirrel Lake is located within the municipality of Temagami, in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. The lake can be accessed from the Red Squirrel Road. Fish in the lake include northern pike, trout, walleye, Aurora trout and smallmouth ba ...

Snake Island Lake Snake Island Lake is a lake in the Ottawa River drainage basin in Strathy Township, Municipality of Temagami, Nipissing District of Northeastern Ontario, Canada. The primary outflow is a navigable channel to Cassels Lake, which flows via Rabbit ...

* Snowshoe Lake *

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Tetapaga Lake Tetapaga Lake, also known as Lake Tetapaga, is a narrow east–west trending lake in the Temagami region of Northeastern Ontario, Canada, located at the abandoned iron-bearing Sherman Mine. A gravel road crosses the central portion of the lake, s ...

* Turtle Lake * Upper Redwater Lake * Upper Twin Lake * Wasaksina Lake * Wilson Lake Temagami townsite from air

Localities

Localities located within Temagami's municipal boundaries are:

Settlements

* Bear Island * Doherty *Gillies Townsite *Kitts Trailer Park *

Milne Townsite The Milne Townsite, commonly referred to as Milnes, is an abandoned community in Strathy Township, municipality of Temagami, Nipissing District in northeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the north shore of Link Lake, just south of the Milne-Sh ...

* Owaissa * Redwater *''Temagami'' *

Townships

*Askin Township *Aston Township *Banting Township *Belfast Township * Best Township *

Briggs Township Briggs Township is a geographic township comprising a portion of the municipality of Temagami in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is used for geographic purposes, such as land surveying and natural resource Natural resources are resources ...

*Canton Township *Cassels Township * Chambers Township *Cynthia Township * Joan Township *Law Township *LeRoche Township * Milne Township *Olive Township * Phyllis Township *Riddell Township *Sisk Township * Strathcona Township *

Strathy Township Strathy Township is a square-shaped geographic township comprising a portion of the municipality of Temagami in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. It is used for geographic purposes, such as land surveying and natural resource explorations. At least fou ...

*Torrington Township *Vogt Township *Yates Township Note: Only the eastern halves of Scholes and Clement townships are within the municipality of Temagami.

Camps

Camps include: *Camp Acouchiching *Camp Agamik *Camp Bigwee *Camp Cayuga *Camp Chimo *Camp Cochrane * Keewaydin *Northwoods Camp *Camp Wabikon *Camp Wabun *Camp Wanapitei *Camp White Bear *Camp Temagami (formerly Camp Wigwasati, formerly Camp Pays D'en Haut) *Northwaters and Langskib Wilderness Programs

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Temagami 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.

Film and television

Temagami and surrounding areas have been used as a location to shoot feature films and TV episodes. Films include the 1930 docudrama '' The Silent Enemy'' and from 2006 ''

That Beautiful Somewhere ''That Beautiful Somewhere'' is a Canadian feature film written, directed and produced by Robert Budreau, produced by Ian Murray and executive produced by Bill Plumstead and Matthew Stone for Loon Film Inc. and Lumanity Productions. The film stars ...

''. TV includes '' Survivorman'' episodes (Plane Crash, and Temagami Hunting Deep Woods) and ''

Mantracker ''Mantracker'' is a Canadian reality TV, reality television series created by Ihor Macijiwsky and produced by Bonterra Productions. It premiered in Canada in April 2006 on the Outdoor Life Network. In the United States, the show aired on the Scie ...

'' episodes (Ryder and Brendyn, and Ben and Darrell).

Notable people

Benjamin Chee Chee Kenneth Thomas Chee Chee (26 March 1944 – 14 March 1977), known as Benjamin Chee Chee, was an Ojibwa Canadian artist born in Temagami, Ontario. Early life Chee Chee's early life was troubled and he lost track of his mother, for whom he spen ...

, Canadian artist of Ojibwe descent *

, British-born Archibald Belaney who pretended to be First Nations * Dan O'Connor, Canadian politician, businessman and prospector, founded the community *

, former chief of the Temagami First Nation and the Teme-Augama Anishnabai

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Temagami Temagami, formerly spelled as Timagami, is a municipality in northeastern Ontario, Canada, in the Nipissing District with Lake Temagami at its heart. The Temagami region is known as ''n'Daki Menan'', the homeland of the area's First Nations c ...

Hudson's Bay Company trading posts Mining communities in Ontario Single-tier municipalities in Ontario Strathy Township