Manitoulin District is a district in Northeastern Ontario within the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1888 from part of Algoma District. The district seat is Gore Bay.
It comprises Manitoulin Island and a number of small islands around it, making it the smallest district in Ontario. Previously it included the municipality of Killarney on the mainland, until this was transferred to Sudbury District in the late 1990s.
In 2001, the po...
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Manitoulin District is a district in Northeastern Ontario within the Canadian province of Ontario. It was created in 1888 from part of Algoma District. The district seat is Gore Bay.
It comprises Manitoulin Island and a number of small islands around it, making it the smallest district in Ontario. Previously it included the municipality of Killarney on the mainland, until this was transferred to Sudbury District in the late 1990s.
In 2001, the population of Manitoulin District was 12,679; in 2006, it had risen to 13,090. The district's land area is 4,759.74km (2,957 mi), for a population density of 2.8 people/km (1.7 people/mi).
Like the other districts of Northern Ontario, the Manitoulin District does not have a county or regional municipality tier of municipal government. All services in the district are provided either by the individual municipalities or directly by the provincial government. However, in many cases the Manitoulin District does not have its own administrative area...
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