Gauthier is a

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the Northeastern

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. The township had a population of 138 in the

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. Its main population centre is Dobie, located just north of

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, east of

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History

Dobie housed the miners working the Upper Canada Mines, which produced 4,648,984 ounces of gold before closing in 1971.

Railway points

Northlands Park

The railway point of Northlands Park (, elevation ) is in Gauthier. It is adjacent to Ontario Highway 672, north of that highway's southern terminus at

, and west of Dobie. Northlands Park was established in the 1920s at the construction of the Nipissing Central Railway line between

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(Ontario) and

Rouyn-Noranda Rouyn-Noranda (; Canada 2021 Census, 2021 population 42,313) is a city on Osisko Lake in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada. The city of Rouyn-Noranda is coextensive with a territory equivalent to a regional county municipalit ...

(

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) at mile 14.1. The line continues to be operated, as a subsidiary of the

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, as a freight spur.

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Gauthier 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. Dobie ON 1

Mother tongue (2006): * English as first language: 85% * French as first language: 7.5% * English and French as first language: 7.5% * Other as first language: 0%

Transportation

Gauthier is served by two provincial highways: *

running west to Kirkland Lake and

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, and east to the Quebec border, where it continues as

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. Highway 66 is part of the

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between highway 11 and the Quebec border. * Ontario Highway 672, running north from Highway 66 past Northlands Park to Esker Lakes Provincial Park and then to

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. The township is traversed in an east–west direction by the Nipissing Central Railway line that runs between

(Ontario) and

(

). The line continues to be operated, as a subsidiary of the

, as a freight spur.

Notable people

Actress

Sara Botsford Sara Botsford (born August 4, 1951) is a Canadian television and film actress. She starred in the CTV drama series ''E.N.G.'' (1989–1994) for which received Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role. Career S ...

was born in Dobie.

References

External links

{{Timiskaming District Municipalities in Timiskaming District Single-tier municipalities in Ontario Township municipalities in Ontario