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McLaren's Bay is a Dispersed rural community and unincorporated place in
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Parkman Township in the Unorganized North Part of
Nipissing District Nipissing District is a district in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1858. The district seat is North Bay. In 2021, the population was 84,716. The land area is ; the population density was , making it o ...
in Central
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,
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. The community lies on the eponymous McLaren's Bay on the west shore of
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, at the mouth of Opimika Creek. McLaren's Point is just north of the community. A tertiary road leads from McLaren's Bay southwest to the
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of Diver, on the
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, and—via a subsequent branching tertiary road—south to
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, at a point about halfway between that highway's crossing over the Jocko River and Lake Timiskaming.


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{{authority control Communities in Nipissing District