Rainy River District is a

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and census division in Northwestern Ontario in the Canadian province of

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. It was created in 1885. It is the only division in Ontario that lies completely in the

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, except for the township of

Atikokan Atikokan (, Ojibwe for ' caribou bones') is a town in the Rainy River District in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The population was 2,642 as of the 2021 census. The town is one of the main entry points into Quetico Provincial Park and promotes it ...

(including Sapawe and Kawene to the east) observing Eastern Standard Time year-round. Its seat is Fort Frances. It is known for its fishing and its location on the US border opposite International Falls, Minnesota, and Baudette, Minnesota. In 2016, the population was 20,110. The land area is ; the population density was .

Subdivisions

Municipalities

Unorganized area

* Rainy River, Unorganized (served by the Eva Marion Lake local services board)

First Nations reserves

* Agency 1 * Assabaska * Big Grassy River 35G * Big Island 31D * Big Island 31E * Big Island 31F * Big Island 37 * Big Island Mainland 93 * Couchiching 16A * Lake of the Woods 31H * Lake of the Woods 34 * Long Sault 12 * Manitou Rapids 11 * Naongashing 31A * Neguaguon Lake 25D * Rainy Lake 17A * Rainy Lake 17B * Rainy Lake 18C * Rainy Lake 26A * Sabaskong Bay 35C * Saug-a-Gaw-Sing 1 * Seine River 23A * Seine River 23B

Demographics

As a census division 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, the Rainy River District had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of −3.3% from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Sunset quetico 7-24-05

Culture

As of 2013, the

Rainy River District School Board The Rainy River District School Board (known as English-language Public District School Board No. 5B prior to 1999) is a school board in the Canadian province of Ontario. The school board is the school district administrator for English langua ...

has partnered with the

Seven Generations Education Institute Seven Generations Education Institute is an Aboriginal-owned and controlled post-secondary institution co-founded by the ten bands in the Rainy Lake Tribal area in 1985. The ten bands are: Big Grassy, Big Island, Couchiching, Lac La Croix, ...

, the

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, and local First Nations communities in development of new technologies and programs for revitalization of the

Ojibwe language Ojibwe , also known as Ojibwa , Ojibway, Otchipwe,R. R. Bishop Baraga, 1878''A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language''/ref> Ojibwemowin, or Anishinaabemowin, is an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian lan ...

External links

Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board

References

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