Cochrane District is a

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and

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in the

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. It was created in 1921 from parts of

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and

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districts. In 2016, the population was 79,682. The land area of this district is , making it slightly smaller than the US State of

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and the second largest district in Ontario after Kenora District. The district seat is

Cochrane Cochrane may refer to: Places Australia *Cochrane railway station, Sydney, a railway station on the closed Ropes Creek railway line Canada * Cochrane, Alberta * Cochrane Lake, Alberta * Cochrane District, Ontario ** Cochrane, Ontario, a town wit ...

Bennet Lake Esker Kame Complex Conservation Reserve The Bennet Lake Esker Kame Complex Conservation Reserve is a Canadian conservation reserve in the townships of Boyle and Guilfoyle, in Cochrane District, Ontario. The hectare reserve is approximately 40 km northeast of Kapuskasing. It was pr ...

is located in Cochrane District.

Subdivisions

City

Towns

Townships

Cree Nation reserves

*Abitibi Indian Reserve No. 70 ( Wahgoshig First Nation) * Constance Lake 92 ( Constance Lake First Nation) *

Factory Island 1 Factory Island 1 is a Cree First Nations reserve on Moose Factory Island in northern Ontario. It is one of two reserves for the Moose Cree First Nation. Land use The northern two-thirds of the island comprises this reserve or land north of Museum S ...

( Moose Cree First Nation) *Flying Post 73 ( Flying Post First Nation) *Fort Albany 67 (

Fort Albany First Nation Fort Albany First Nation ( cr, ᐲᐦᑖᐯᒄ ᐃᓕᓕᐗᒃ pîhtâpek ililiwak, "lagoon Cree") is a Cree First Nation in Cochrane District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, within the territory covered by Treaty 9. Situated on the souther ...

) * Moose Factory 68 ( Moose Cree First Nation) *

New Post 69 New Post 69 is a First Nations reserve near Fraserdale Fraserdale is an unincorporated place and Railroad switch, railroad point in Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part, Ontario, Unorganized Cochrane, North Part in Cochrane District, Ontario, C ...

( Taykwa Tagamou Nation) *

New Post 69A New Post 69A is a First Nations in Canada, First Nations Indian reserve, reserve in Cochrane District, Ontario. It is one of two reserves for the Taykwa Tagamou Nation. References

Cree reserves in Ontario Communities in Cochrane Distr ...

( Taykwa Tagamou Nation)

Unorganized areas

* North Part (includes the local services boards of

Hallébourg Hallebourg ON

Hallébourg is a community in the Canadian province of Onta ...

, Jogues, Lac-Sainte-Thérèse, and

Moose Factory Moose Factory is a community in the Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Moose Factory Island, near the mouth of the Moose River, which is at the southern end of James Bay. It was the first English-speaking settlement in lands ...

) * South East Part * South West Part

Geographic Townships

''This list is incomplete.'' *

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Demographics

As a

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 Cochrane District had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of −2.2% from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

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