Timiskaming is a

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and

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in Northeastern Ontario in the

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. The district was created in 1912 from parts of Algoma, Nipissing, and

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districts. In 1921, Cochrane District was created from parts of this district and parts of Thunder Bay District. The division had a population of 32,251 in the

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. The land area is ; the population density was . It is just west of the similarly named Témiscamingue county in

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, which is also informally called a region, but is administratively part of a greater region named

Abitibi-Témiscamingue Abitibi-Témiscamingue () is an administrative region located in western Québec, Canada, along the border with Ontario. It became part of the province in 1898. It has a land area of and its population was 146,717 people as of the 2016 Census. ...

. Temiskaming District is home to several provincial parks.

History

The ''coureurs de bois'' explored and traded fur in what is now the Timiskaming District, in the 17th century.

Subdivisions

City

* Temiskaming Shores (Haileybury, New Liskeard, Dymond Township, North Cobalt)

Towns

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* Englehart *

Kirkland Lake Kirkland Lake is a town and municipality in Timiskaming District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada. The 2016 population, according to Statistics Canada, was 7,981. The community name was based on a nearby lake which in turn was named after Winnif ...

(Chaput Hughes,

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) * Latchford

Townships

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(Earlton) * Brethour * Casey (Belle Vallée) * Chamberlain * Charlton and Dack * Coleman * Evanturel * Gauthier (Dobie) * Harley * Harris * Hilliard (Hilliardton) * Hudson * James (Elk Lake) * Kerns * Larder Lake *

Matachewan Matachewan is a township in Timiskaming, Northeastern Ontario, Canada, located at the end of Ontario Highway 66 along the Montreal River. The name is derived from the Cree word for "meeting of the currents". The town's main economy is based ...

* McGarry (Kearns, Virginiatown)

Village

* Thornloe

First Nations reserve

* Matachewan 72

Unorganized areas

* Timiskaming, Unorganized, East Part * Timiskaming, Unorganized, West Part ( Gowganda, Kenabeek, King Kirkland, Marshall's Corners, Marter, Sesekinika, Tarzwell, Tomstown) The following local services boards serve inhabitants of these unincorporated areas: * Kenogami * King-Lebel * Maisonville * Savard

Geographical townships

*Alma *Argyle *

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*Auld *Baden *Banks *Bannockburn *Barber *Barr *Bartlett *Bayly *Beauchamp *Bernhardt *Blain * Bompas *Boston * Brethour *Brewster *Brigstocke *Bryce *Bucke *Burt *Cairo *Cane * Casey *Catharine * Chamberlain *Charters *Childerhose *Chown *Cleaver *Cole * Coleman *Corkill *Corley *Dack *Dane *Davidson *Donovan *Doon *Douglas *Doyle *Dufferin *Dunmore *Dymond *Eby * Evanturel *Fallon *Farr *Fasken *Firstbrook *Flavelle *Fripp *Gamble * Gauthier *Geikie *Gillies Limit *Grenfell *Gross * Harley * Harris *Haultain *Hearst *Henwood *Hillary * Hilliard *Hincks *Holmes * Hudson *Ingram * James * Katrine * Kerns *Kimberley *Kittson *Klock *Knight *Lawson *Lebel *Leckie *Lee *Leith *Leo *Leonard *Lorrain *Lundy *Maisonville *Marquis * Marter *McArthur *McElroy *McFadden * McGarry *McGiffin *McKeown *McNeil *McVittie *Medina *Michie *Mickle *Midlothian *Milner *Montrose *Morel *Morrisette *Mulligan *Musgrove *Nicol *Nordica *North Williams *Ossian *Otto *Pacaud *Pense *Pharand *Powell *Rankin *Rattray *Ray *Raymond *Reynolds *Roadhouse *Robertson *Robillard *Rorke *Savard *Sharpe *Sheba *Shillington *Skead *Smyth *South Lorrain *Speight *Teck * Terry *Trethewey *Truax *Tudhope *Tyrrell *Van Hise *van Nostrand *Wallis *Whitson *Willet *Willison *Yarrow

Demographics

As a

in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, the Timiskaming District had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of −2.6% from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Politics

The district seat is in Temiskaming Shores. Along with portions of the neighbouring district, Cochrane, Timiskaming is represented in the

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by John Vanthof. In the

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, the district is divided between

Nipissing—Timiskaming Nipissing—Timiskaming is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. The riding was formed by the amalgamation of the former Nipissing riding with the southeastern p ...

, represented by

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, in the south, and

Timmins—James Bay Timmins—James Bay (french: Timmins—Baie James) is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1997. Its population in 2011 was 83,104. The district includes the extreme ...