Elliot Lake, Ontario
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Elliot Lake (2001 population 11,956) is a city in Northern Ontario, Canada. It is located in the Algoma District, midway between the cities of Greater Sudbury and Sault Ste Marie near the shore of Lake Huron.
The town was first established as a uranium mining town in 1955. The population peaked around 26,000 in the 1960s. The uranium was extracted by underground hard-rock mining techniques and when competition from lower cost open pit mines forced the Elliot Lake operations out of business in the 1980s, the town looked elsewhere for its survival, promoting itself as a retirement community and tourist destination. The town is now actively seeking to develop cottage lots at an inexpensive price on the beautiful lakes in the area for new inhabitants to enjoy the untouched wild.
For transportation, Elliot Lake is connected by Highway 108, a 30 km (18 mile) collector highway to Highway 17 (a branch of the Trans-Canada Highway), and is served by the Elliot Lake Municipal Airport.
Built on the shores of Elliot Lake, the town is surrounded by lakes and forests. Local wildlife include moose, white-tailed Deer, American Black Bear, beaver, loon, muskrat, otter, Canada Goose, and lynx, to name but a few. Fish species include lake trout, speckled trout, rainbow trout, smallmouth bass, pickerel (walleye), northern pike and sturgeon.
The town council, in cooperation with Blind River and other nearby communities, is considering the possible construction of a nuclear power plant. If such plans are successful, construction might start within five to ten years, and that a new highway might possibly be built directly from Blind River to Elliot Lake.
The local forests are mixed deciduous and coniferous, with colourful displays in the autumn. The ground is hilly, with prominent outcropings of the pre-cambrian bedrock.
Since December 1990 the town has been home to the Elliot Lake Research Field Station, established by Laurentian University to investigate environmental radioactivity.
Until the 1870s an Ojibwa village existed near the present hospital site on the lake shore-line. Elliot Lake is home to a large number of Franco-Ontarians.
The Elliot Lake area is home to several writers, notably Catharine Dixon, Brian Horeck, Robert Nicholas Kucey and Celia Sankar.
Media
Television
Radio
- FM 90.3 - CBEC, CBC Radio One
- FM 92.5 - CHIM-7, Christian
- FM 94.1 - CKNR, Moose FM adult contemporary
- FM 101.7 - CBON-5, La Première Chaîne
Print and Web Media
The city's main newspaper is the Elliot Lake Standard, owned by Osprey Media.
External links
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