Tehkummah is a

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in the

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, located on

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Communities

The best known community in the township is South Baymouth, the northern docking point of the ''

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'' passenger-car ferry which traverses the Main Channel of Georgian Bay from the community of Tobermory on the

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. At the dock, the provincial

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, whose southern segment ends at Tobermory, resumes and continues northward to its terminus at Highway 17 north of Espanola. The administrative centre of the township is the community of Tehkummah. The township also includes the ghost towns of Michael's Bay and Snowville.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Tehkummah 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.

Climate

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* {{Manitoulin District Municipalities in Manitoulin District Single-tier municipalities in Ontario Township municipalities in Ontario Communities in Manitoulin Island

Communities

Demographics

Climate

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