Aweres is a

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in the Canadian province of

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. Located in the

Algoma District Algoma District is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The name was created by an American ethnologist, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793–1864), who was appointed Indian agent to the Ojibwe ...

, it encompasses and provides services to most of the geographic township of Aweres, including the communities of Island Lake and Heyden.Local Services Boards, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 737
. Canadian Legal Information Institute. The area northwest of Heyden is administered by the separate local services board of Peace Tree.

Heyden

Heyden () is located about north of

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at the intersection of Highway 17 and Highway 556. Heyden had one elementary school, Aweres Public School, which opened in 1963. The school was closed at the end of the 2014 school year. The school was a medium-sized (2,407 square metres or 25,910 square feet), single-storey building that served students from both Heyden and Searchmont. Students are now bused into Sault Ste Marie.

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