Timiskaming is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district was created in 1912 from parts of Algoma, Nipissing, and Sudbury districts. In 1921, Cochrane District was created from parts of this district and parts of Thunder Bay District.
It is just west of the similarly named Témiscamingue county in Quebec, which is also informally called a region, but is administratively part of a greater region named Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
Temiskaming District is home to several provincial parks.
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History
The coureurs de bois explored and traded fur in what is now the Timiskaming District, in the 17th century.
Subdivisions
City:
Temiskaming Shores (Haileybury, New Liskeard, Dymond Township, North Cobalt)
Towns:
Cobalt
Englehart
Kirkland Lake (Chaput Hughes, Swastika)
Latchford
Townships:
Armstrong (Earlton)
Brethour
Casey (Belle Vallée)
Chamberlain
Charlton and Dack
Coleman
Evanturel
Gauthier (Dobie)
Harley
Harris
Hilliard (Hilliardton)
Hudson
James (Elk Lake)
Kerns
Larder Lake
Matachewan
McGarry (Kearns, Virginiatown)
Village:
Thornloe
Unorganized areas:
Timiskaming, Unorganized, East Part
Timiskaming, Unorganized, West Part (Gowganda, Kenabeek, King Kirkland, Marshall's Corners, Marter, Sesekinika, Tarzwell, Tomstown)
The following local services boards serve inhabitants of these unincorporated areas:
Kenogami
King-Lebel
Maisonville
Savard
First Nations reserve
Matachewan 72
Demographics
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Timiskaming District had a population of 31,424 living in 14,132 of its 16,290 total private dwellings, a change of −2.6% from its 2016 population of 32,251. With a land area of 13,247.4 km2 (5,114.8 sq mi), it had a population density of 2.4/km2 (6.1/sq mi) in 2021.
Politics
The district seat is in Temiskaming Shores.
Along with portions of the neighbouring district, Cochrane, Timiskaming is vastly represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by John Vanthof, but a very small portion of the district also belongs to the riding of Nickel Belt. In the House of Commons of Canada, the district is divided between Nipissing—Timiskaming, represented by Pauline Rochefort, in the south, and Kapuskasing—Timmins—Mushkegowuk, represented by Gaétan Malette, in the north.