Wabigoon is an unincorporated community in the

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, located in the

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. The community is located on Highway 17, approximately 20 kilometres east of Dryden and seven kilometres west of Dinorwic. A

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served by a

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, Wabigoon had a population of 417 in the

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, Wabigoon had a population of 419 living in 174 of its 195 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 373. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

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