Manitoulin District is a district in Northeastern Ontario within the

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of Ontario. It was created in 1888 from part of the Algoma District. The district seat is in Gore Bay. It comprises Manitoulin Island primarily, as well as a number of smaller islands surrounding it, such as Barrie, Cockburn, and Great La Cloche islands. Previously it included the municipality of Killarney on the mainland, until this was transferred to Sudbury District in the late 1990s. Subsequently, more mainland portions were added to Killarney and these, together with Unorganized Mainland Manitoulin District, were also transferred to Sudbury District in 2006, about in all.

Geography

The district has an area of , making it the smallest district in Ontario. It is in the northern part of

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, separated from the mainland by the

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to the north and by the Georgian Bay to the east. Islands included within the district are: *

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* Bedford Island * Burnt Islands (Big and Northwest) * Clapperton Island * Club Island * Cockburn Island * Duck Islands (Great, Middle, Outer, and Western) * East Rous Island * Fitzwilliam Island *

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* Great La Cloche Island * Greene Island * Henry Island * Heywood Island * Manitoulin Island * Rabbit Island * Strawberry Island * Thibault Island * Vidal Island * Wall Island * Yeo Island

Subdivisions

Towns

Townships

Unorganized areas

First Nations reserves

Communities

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* Bass Creek * Bidwell * Big Lake * Bowser's Corner * Britainville * Burnt Island * Burpee * Clover Valley *

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* Cook's Dock * Dinner Point Depot * Dryden's Corner * Eads Bush * Eagles Nest * Elizabeth Bay * Evansville * Fernlee * Foxey *

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* Green Bay *

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* Hilly Grove * Honora * Ice Lake *

Kagawong Billings is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, as well as the name of a community within that township. Located in the Manitoulin District, the township had a population of 603 in the Canada 2016 Census. Communities The primary com ...

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* Long Bay *

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* Meldrum Bay *

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* Mindemoya * Monument Corner * Old Spring Bay * Perivale * Pleasant Valley * Poplar * Providence Bay * Rockville * Sandfield * Sheguiandah * Silver Water * The Slash * Snowville *

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* Spring Bay * Squirrel Town * Tobacco Lake * Tolsmaville * Turner * Vanzant's Point

Demographics

As a

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in the

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conducted by

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, the Manitoulin 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.

Services

Like the other districts of Northern Ontario, the Manitoulin District does not have a county or

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tier of government. All services in the district are provided either by the individual municipalities or directly by the provincial government. Services are provided jointly with the Sudbury District from its district seat in Espanola.

Media

The district is served by two weekly community newspapers, the '' Manitoulin Expositor'' in Little Current and the ''Manitoulin West Recorder'' in Gore Bay; the papers are sister publications both owned and operated by the McCutcheon family. The district is served by the commercial radio stations

CFRM-FM CFRM-FM is a Canadian radio station that broadcasts at 100.7 FM broadcasting, FM in Little Current, Ontario, Little Current, Ontario, serving Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands. The station, a community radio outlet owned by Manitoulin Radio ...

and

CHAW-FM CHAW-FM is a Canadian FM broadcasting, FM radio station that broadcasts at 103.1 Hertz, MHz in Little Current, Ontario, Little Current, Ontario, serving Algoma District, Algoma, Manitoulin District, Manitoulin and a good portion of the Ontario Hig ...

, the First Nations community radio station

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, and the

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-based commercial radio station

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. It is otherwise primarily served by media from

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, including the ''

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'' and CTV Northern Ontario.

Highways

King's Highways

* #6

Secondary Highways

* #540 * #540A * #540B * #542 * #542A * #551

References

External links

* *
Manitoulin-Sudbury District Services Board
{{Subdivisions of Ontario