The Sudbury District is a
district
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in
Northeastern Ontario
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Northeastern Ontario consists of the districts of Algoma, Sudbury, Cochrane, Timisk ...
in the
Canadian province
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of
Ontario
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. It was created in 1894 from townships of eastern
Algoma District and west
Nipissing District. In 1973, the
Regional Municipality of Sudbury was created as a separate jurisdiction out of the district.
The overwhelming majority of the district (about 92%) is unincorporated and part of
Unorganized North Sudbury District. With the exception of
Chapleau, all of the district's incorporated municipalities are found in the area immediately surrounding the city of
Greater Sudbury
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to the west, east and south. North of the Greater Sudbury area, the district is sparsely populated; between Sudbury and Chapleau, only unincorporated settlements,
ghost town
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s and small
First Nations
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reserves are found.
Status of Greater Sudbury
Because the
districts
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of
Northern Ontario
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are unincorporated territorial divisions, unlike the
counties
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or
regional municipalities of
Southern Ontario
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, the city of
Greater Sudbury
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is legally defined as part of the district in the geographic sense.
Politically, however, the district and the city are considered two distinct census divisions and two distinct jurisdictions for provincial government services. The district's social services board—which has offices in the district seat of
Espanola, as well as satellite offices in several other communities in the district—instead shares its jurisdictional area with the neighbouring
Manitoulin District, whereas equivalent services in Greater Sudbury, which has the status of a single-tier municipality, are provided directly from the city.
With the city included, the district would have had a population of 183,077 in the 2016 census.
Subdivisions
Towns:
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Espanola
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French River
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Markstay-Warren
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St. Charles
Townships:
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Baldwin
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Chapleau
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Killarney
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Nairn and Hyman
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Sables-Spanish Rivers
Unorganized areas:
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Sudbury, Unorganized, North Part - Local services areas include:
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Cartier
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Foleyet
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Gogama
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Rainbow Country
First Nations reserves
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Chapleau 74A
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Chapleau 75
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Duck Lake
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Mattagami
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Mountbatten
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Whitefish Lake
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Whitefish River (boundaries include parts of both Sudbury and Manitoulin Districts)
Demographics
As a
census division
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in the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, the Sudbury 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.
Provincial highways
The Sudbury District is served by
Trans-Canada Highway
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s
17, which leads from the community of Walford (
Sables-Spanish Rivers) in the west to the community of Warren (
Markstay-Warren) in the east, and
69, which enters the district at French River and exits at the southern boundary of Greater Sudbury.
The Ontario government is converting Highway 69 to a
freeway
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. Virtually the entire route of Highway 69 within the Sudbury District is now four-laned as of December 2021, with the completion of the segment between the French River and
Grundy Lake Provincial Park, while the route narrows back to a two-lane highway in the Parry Sound District until widening back into
Highway 400 at
Carling. The freeway conversion of the remaining route, and its eventual renumbering as an extension of Highway 400, are expected in the future, although no exact date has been confirmed as of 2022 for the completion of the project.
Other primary provincial highways in the district are:
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Highway 6, which extends from Highway 17 south to
Whitefish Falls, where it enters the
Manitoulin District,
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Highway 64, which runs from Highway 69 east and north through the Municipality of French River, and enters the
Nipissing District at
Mashkinonje Provincial Park,
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Highway 101, which extends from the boundary of
Algoma District, west of Chapleau, to the boundary of
Cochrane District
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In 2021, the district's population was 77,963, with a l ...
, just outside
Timmins
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,
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Highway 129, which runs from Highway 101 to the boundary of Algoma District south of
Chapleau,
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Highway 144, which runs from the northwestern city limits of Greater Sudbury north to the boundary of Timiskaming District, just outside Timmins.
The Sudbury District also has a number of secondary provincial highways, which are the analogue in a district to county or municipal roads in Southern Ontario. They are important connections to the communities they serve, but are not significant routes for through traffic. The secondary highways are:
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Highway 528, connecting the community of Wolseley Bay (
French River) to Highway 64,
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Highway 528A, which provides access to the south side of the water body at Wolseley Bay,
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Highway 535, connecting Highway 64 at Noëlville (
French River) to Highway 17 at Hagar (
St. Charles),
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Highway 553, extending north from the community of Massey (
Sables-Spanish Rivers),
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Highway 560, which runs from Highway 144 to the boundary of
Timiskaming District, through
Shining Tree,
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Highway 560A, which connects
Westree to Highway 560,
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Highway 607, which runs from Bigwood (
French River) to Highway 64,
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Highway 607A, which provides road access to the
French River,
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Highway 637, which runs from Highway 69 to the community of
Killarney
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,
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Highway 661, which connects the community of Gogama to Highway 144.
See also
Sultan Industrial Road.
See also
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List of townships in Ontario
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Northern Ontario Northeastern Ontario Algoma D ...
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List of secondary schools in Ontario#Sudbury District
References
External links
Manitoulin-Sudbury District Services Board
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1907 establishments in Ontario