Manitoulin, Unorganized, Mainland, Ontario
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Unorganized Mainland Manitoulin was an
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in the
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province of
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, encompassing the small mainland portion of the
Manitoulin District Manitoulin District is a district in Northeastern Ontario within the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1888 from part of the Algoma District. The district seat is in Gore Bay. It comprises Manitoulin Island primarily, as well as a ...
which was not part of the municipality of
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. It was dissolved and annexed into Killarney in 2006. It comprised the geographic townships of Carlyle and Humboldt, as well as the unpopulated
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of Point Grondine. The only named settlement within the division is the
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of Collins Inlet. Prior to the incorporation of Killarney in 1999, the unorganized territory had an area of . The division had a population of five in the
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, and a land area of . There were a total of nine private dwellings, mostly for seasonal use and one of which was occupied. It had no population in the 2001 census, while there were two persons living in the area in 1996.


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Manitoulin Mainland Geography of Manitoulin District 2006 disestablishments in Ontario {{NorthernOntario-geo-stub