Timiskaming District

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.

The division had a population of 32,251 in the Canada 2016 Census. The land area is 13299.92 km2; the population density was 2.4 /km2.

It is just west of the similarly named Témiscamingue county in Québec, 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.

History
The coureurs de bois explored and traded fur in what is now the Timiskaming District, in the 17th century.

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

First Nations reserve

 * Matachewan 72

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

Geographical townships

 * Alma
 * Argyle
 * Armstrong
 * Arnold
 * Auld
 * Baden
 * Banks
 * Bannockburn
 * Barber
 * Barr
 * Bartlett
 * Bayly
 * Beauchamp
 * Bernhardt
 * Blain
 * Bompas
 * Boston
 * Brethour
 * Brewster
 * Brigstocke
 * Bryce
 * Bucke
 * Burt
 * Cairo
 * Cane
 * Casey
 * Catharine
 * Chamberlain
 * Charters
 * Childerhose
 * Chown
 * Cleaver
 * Cole
 * Coleman
 * Corkill
 * Corley
 * Dack
 * Dane
 * Davidson
 * Donovan
 * Doon
 * Douglas
 * Doyle
 * Dufferin
 * Dunmore
 * Dymond
 * Eby
 * Evanturel
 * Fallon


 * Farr
 * Fasken
 * Firstbrook
 * Flavelle
 * Fripp
 * Gamble
 * Gauthier
 * Geikie
 * Gillies Limit
 * Grenfell
 * Gross
 * Harley
 * Harris
 * Haultain
 * Hearst
 * Henwood
 * Hillary
 * Hilliard
 * Hincks
 * Holmes
 * Hudson
 * Ingram
 * James
 * Katrine
 * Kerns
 * Kimberley
 * Kittson
 * Klock
 * Knight
 * Lawson
 * Lebel
 * Leckie
 * Lee
 * Leith
 * Leo
 * Leonard
 * Lorrain
 * Lundy
 * Maisonville
 * Marquis
 * Marter
 * McArthur
 * McElroy
 * McFadden
 * McGarry
 * McGiffin
 * McKeown
 * McNeil
 * McVittie


 * Medina
 * Michie
 * Mickle
 * Midlothian
 * Milner
 * Montrose
 * Morel
 * Morrisette
 * Mulligan
 * Musgrove
 * Nicol
 * Nordica
 * North Williams
 * Ossian
 * Otto
 * Pacaud
 * Pense
 * Pharand
 * Powell
 * Rankin
 * Rattray
 * Ray
 * Raymond
 * Reynolds
 * Roadhouse
 * Robertson
 * Robillard
 * Rorke
 * Savard
 * Sharpe
 * Sheba
 * Shillington
 * Skead
 * Smyth
 * South Lorrain
 * Speight
 * Teck
 * Terry
 * Trethewey
 * Truax
 * Tudhope
 * Tyrrell
 * Van Hise
 * van Nostrand
 * Wallis
 * Whitson
 * Willet
 * Willison
 * Yarrow

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 13247.4 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Politics
The district seat is in Temiskaming Shores.

Along with portions of the neighbouring district, Cochrane, Timiskaming is represented in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by John Vanthof. In the House of Commons of Canada, the district is divided between Nipissing—Timiskaming, represented by Anthony Rota, in the south, and Timmins-James Bay, represented by Charlie Angus, in the north. A very small portion of the district also belongs to the riding of Nickel Belt.