Manitoulin District is a

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within the

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. It was created in 1888 from part of the Algoma District. The district seat is in Gore Bay. It comprises

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primarily, as well as a number of smaller islands surrounding it, such as

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, Cockburn, and Great La Cloche islands. Previously it included the municipality of

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on the mainland, until this was transferred to Sudbury District in the late 1990s. Subsequently, more mainland portions were added to Killarney and these, together with Unorganized Mainland Manitoulin District, were also transferred to Sudbury District in 2006, about in all.

Geography

The district has an area of , making it the smallest district in Ontario. It is in the northern part of

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, separated from the mainland by the North Channel to the north and by the

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to the east. Islands included within the district are: * Barrie Island * Bedford Island * Burnt Islands (Big and Northwest) * Clapperton Island * Club Island * Cockburn Island * Duck Islands (Great, Middle, Outer, and Western) * East Rous Island * Fitzwilliam Island * Goat Island * Great La Cloche Island * Greene Island * Henry Island * Heywood Island *

* Rabbit Island * Strawberry Island * Thibault Island * Vidal Island * Wall Island * Yeo Island

Subdivisions

Towns: * Gore Bay *

Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands is a municipality with town status in Manitoulin District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, approximately south of Espanola. Its main town is Little Current, located on the northeast side of Manitoulin I ...

Townships: *

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* Billings * Burpee and Mills * Central Manitoulin * Cockburn Island * Gordon/Barrie Island * Tehkummah Unorganized areas: * Manitoulin, Unorganized, Mainland (dissolved in 2006) * Manitoulin, Unorganized, West Part, includes these two geographic townships (each served by its own, separate local services board): ** Dawson ** Robinson

First Nations

Reserves: * M'Chigeeng (West Bay) * Sheguiandah * Sheshegwaning * Aundeck Omni Kaning * Whitefish River * Wikwemikong * Zhiibaahaasing (Cockburn Island)

Communities

* Advance * Bass Creek * Bidwell * Big Lake * Bowser's Corner * Britainville * Burnt Island * Burpee * Clover Valley * Cold Springs * Cook's Dock * Dinner Point Depot * Dryden's Corner * Eads Bush * Eagles Nest * Elizabeth Bay *

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* Fernlee * Foxey *

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* Green Bay * Grimsthorpe * Hilly Grove * Honora * Ice Lake * Kagawong * Little Current * Long Bay * Manitowaning * Meldrum Bay * Michael's Bay * Mindemoya * Monument Corner * Old Spring Bay *

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* Pleasant Valley * Poplar * Providence Bay * Rockville * Sandfield * Sheguiandah * Silver Water * The Slash * Snowville * South Baymouth * Spring Bay * Squirrel Town * Tobacco Lake * Tolsmaville *

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* Vanzant's Point

Demographics

As a

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in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, the Manitoulin District 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.

Services

Like the other districts of Northern Ontario, the Manitoulin District does not have a

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tier of government. All services in the district are provided either by the individual municipalities or directly by the provincial government. Services are provided jointly with the Sudbury District from its district seat in Espanola.

Transportation

King's Highways: * #6 Secondary Highways: * #540 * #540A * #540B * #542 * #542A * #551

Media

The district is served by two weekly community newspapers, the '' Manitoulin Expositor'' in Little Current and the ''Manitoulin West Recorder'' in Gore Bay; the papers are sister publications both owned and operated by the McCutcheon family. The district is served by the commercial radio stations CFRM-FM and CHAW-FM, the

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community radio station CHYF-FM, and the

Elliot Lake Elliot Lake is a city in Algoma District, Ontario, Canada. It is north of Lake Huron, midway between the cities of Greater Sudbury, Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Sault Ste. Marie in the Northern Ontario region. Once dubbed the "uranium ca ...

-based commercial radio station CKNR-FM. It is otherwise primarily served by media from Sudbury, including the ''

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'' and CTV Northern Ontario.

References

External links

Manitoulin-Sudbury District Services Board
{{Subdivisions of Ontario