Thunder Bay District, Ontario

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Thunder Bay District is a district and census division in Northwestern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district seat is Thunder Bay.

Contents

1 History
2 Population
3 Census subdivisions
4 Geographic Neighbors
5 See also
6 External links

History

Thunder Bay District was created in 1871 by provincial statute from the western half of Algoma District. Its northern and western boundaries were uncertain until Ontario's right to Northwestern Ontario was determined by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Until about 1902 it was often called Algoma West from the name of the provincial constituency.

The following districts include areas that were formerly part of Thunder Bay District:

Rainy River, created in 1885
Kenora, created in 1907 from Rainy River District
Cochrane, created in 1921

Population

2003 Postcensal estimate 154,783

Almost 80 per cent of the district's population lives in the Thunder Bay Census Metropolitan Area; no other community in the district exceeds 7,000 in population.

Census subdivisions

Municipalities:

City of Thunder Bay
Municipality (town) of Greenstone
Town of Marathon
Municipality (town) of Neebing
Township of Conmee
Township of Dorion
Township of Gillies
Township of Manitouwadge
Township of Nipigon
Township of O'Connor
Municipality (township) of Oliver Paipoonge
Township of Red Rock
Township of Schreiber
Township of Shuniah
Township of Terrace Bay

Indian reserves

Aroland 83
Fort William 52
Ginoogaming First Nation
Gull River 55
Lac des Mille Lacs 22A1
Lake Helen 53A
Long Lake 58
Ojibway Nation of Saugeen (Savant Lake)
Osnaburgh 63A
Pays Plat 51
Pic Mobert North
Pic Mobert South
Pic River 50
Rocky Bay 1
Seine River 22A2
Whitesand

Unorganized areas

Thunder Bay, Unorganized

Geographic Neighbors

External links

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Districts	Algoma - Cochrane - Kenora - Manitoulin - Nipissing - Parry Sound - Rainy River - Sudbury - Thunder Bay - Timiskaming
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