Unorganized South East Cochrane District is an

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in the

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province of

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, encompassing the small portion of the

Cochrane District Cochrane District is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1921 from parts of Timiskaming and Thunder Bay districts. In 2021, the district's population was 77,963, with a l ...

, immediately surrounding Highway 11 at the division's southern boundary with the

Timiskaming District Timiskaming is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district was created in 1912 from parts of Algoma, Nipissing, and Sudbury districts. In 1921, Cochrane District was created from p ...

, which is not part of the municipality of

Black River-Matheson Black River-Matheson is a township (Canada), township in the Cochrane District of the Canadian province of Ontario. The municipality is astride the Black River (Abitibi River), Black River, for which it is partly named. The Matheson railway stat ...

which surrounds it. It consists of the southern half of the geographic township of Benoit and is the southernmost limit of the Great Clay Belt of northern Ontario. The division had a population of 15 in the

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, and a land area of 53.19 square kilometres. The main settlement in the division is the ghost town of Bourkes, located at the

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crossing on Bourkes road. The area was initially settled by Scandinavian immigrants around 1911 as a dairy farming region and by 1914 had a store, railway station and siding, school, post office and bunkhouse as well as two gold mines. The population peaked in the 1930s at 300, but slowly declined after the two local gold mines were shuttered and the timber trade dried up. The post office was closed in 1969 and the last store closed in the 1970s, today, only the disused bunkhouse and a few scattered houses remain of the settlement.

Demographics

Population:Statistics Canada:

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2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

census * Population in 2006: 25 * Population in 2001: 21 * Population in 1996: 29 * Population in 1991: 38

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{{Cochrane District Cochrane South East Geography of Cochrane District

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