The North Shore is a

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in the

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, located in the

Algoma District Algoma District is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The name was created by an American ethnologist, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864), who was appointed Indian agent to the Ojibwe in ...

. The township had a population of 497 in the

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. It is along the north shore of the

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of Lake Huron (hence its name), with its main communities all along

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Communities

Algoma Mills

Algoma Mills is located between the North Channel and Lauzon Lake, near the township's western boundary with Blind River. The Algoma Mills Water Aerodrome serves the community.

Moiles Mills

Moiles Mills is a

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. It was established as a lumber town in April 1889 and burned down in 1918. The former townsite is now the site of John Island Camp, a children's summer camp operated by the

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Serpent River

Serpent River is located at the junction of highways 17 and 108.

Spragge

Originally known as Cook's Mills, in 1882 the Cook Brothers Lumber Company established a

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at this location on the north shore of

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. The mill operated until 1906 when it was sold to Waldie Brothers Lumber Company. With the mill no longer in Cook's ownership, Spragge (the original name of the township in which it is located), was adopted as the name of the community. Waldie Brothers in turn sold the mill to McFadden and Malloy in 1913. Over time a small village with a school, hotel, barbershop, general store was created, and by 1926 the community had a population of about 300 people. Sawmill activity was terminated in Spragge in the early 1930s following a disastrous fire, which eliminated the mill, lumber inventory, docks and most of the town. The town subsequently revived with the discovery of

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and

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deposits in the area, leading to a thriving

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industry.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, The North Shore 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. Population trend:Statistics Canada:

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, 2006, 2011 census * Population in 2016: 497 * Population in 2011: 509 * Population in 2006: 549 * Population in 2001: 544 * Population in 1996: 678 * Population in 1991: 729

Images

Image:Algoma Mills ON.JPG, Algoma Mills and Lauzon Lake Image:moilesstreet.jpg, Turn of the century view of the main street in Moiles Mills Image:Serpent River ON 2.jpg, Serpent River Image:Spragge ON.jpg, Spragge Image:Spragge ON 2.jpg, Marina in Spragge

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:North Shore, Ontario, The Municipalities in Algoma District Single-tier municipalities in Ontario Township municipalities in Ontario