Gauthier, Ontario

Gauthier is a township municipality in Timiskaming District the Northeastern Ontario, Canada. The township had a population of 138 in the Canada 2016 Census. Its main population centre is Dobie, located just north of Ontario Highway 66, 18.5 km east of Kirkland Lake.

History
Dobie housed the miners working the Upper Canada Mines, which produced 4,648,984 ounces of gold before closing in 1971.

Northlands Park
The railway point of Northlands Park (48.14444°N, -79.86278°W, elevation 351 m) is in Gauthier. It is adjacent to Ontario Highway 672, 1.5 km north of that highway's southern terminus at Ontario Highway 66, and 3.7 km west of Dobie.

Northlands Park was established in the 1920s at the construction of the Nipissing Central Railway line between Swastika (Ontario) and Rouyn-Noranda (Quebec) at mile 14.1. The line continues to be operated, as a subsidiary of the Ontario Northland Railway, as a freight spur.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Gauthier had a population of $151$ living in $68$ of its $73$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $138$. With a land area of 87.98 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.



Mother tongue (2006):
 * English as first language: 85%
 * French as first language: 7.5%
 * English and French as first language: 7.5%
 * Other as first language: 0%

Transportation
Gauthier is served by two provincial highways:
 * Ontario Highway 66 running west to Kirkland Lake and Ontario Highway 11, and east to the Quebec border, where it continues as Quebec Route 117. Highway 66 is part of the Trans-Canada Highway between highway 11 and the Quebec border.
 * Ontario Highway 672, running north from Highway 66 past Northlands Park to Esker Lakes Provincial Park and then to Ontario Highway 101.

The township is traversed in an east–west direction by the Nipissing Central Railway line that runs between Swastika (Ontario) and Rouyn-Noranda (Quebec). The line continues to be operated, as a subsidiary of the Ontario Northland Railway, as a freight spur.

Notable people
Actress Sara Botsford was born in Dobie.