Mead is a Dispersed Rural Community and unincorporated place in
geographic
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Lowther Township,
Cochrane District
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In 2021, the district's population was 77,963, with a l ...
in
Northeastern Ontario
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,
Canada
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.
The community is counted as part of
Unorganized Cochrane North Part in Canadian census data, and is located just north of the border with
Algoma District
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The name was created by an American ethnologist, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793–1864), who was appointed Indian agent to the Ojibwe ...
.
Mead is the southern terminus of
Ontario Highway 583 about by road south of
Hearst. Mead is also on the
Algoma Central Railway
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between the Horsey
flag stop
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to the south and the community of
Coppell to the north; the latter community is also served by Ontario Highway 583.
Along with a few isolated farms, the only other building at Mead is a former forestry company: from 1973 to 1984, American lumber company, Newaygo Timber operated a mill here.
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Communities in Cochrane District
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