Sudbury District
Sudbury District
District de Sudbury | |
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705 | |
Seat | Espanola |
The Sudbury District is a
The overwhelming majority of the district (about 92%) is unincorporated and part of Unorganized North Sudbury District. With the exception of Chapleau, all of the district's incorporated municipalities are found in the area immediately surrounding the city of Greater Sudbury to the west, east and south. North of the Greater Sudbury area, the district is sparsely populated; between Sudbury and Chapleau, only unincorporated settlements, ghost towns and small First Nations reserves are found.
Status of Greater Sudbury
Because the
Politically, however, the district and the city are considered two distinct census divisions and two distinct jurisdictions for provincial government services. The district's social services board—which has offices in the district seat of Espanola, as well as satellite offices in several other communities in the district—instead shares its jurisdictional area with the neighbouring Manitoulin District, whereas equivalent services in Greater Sudbury, which has the status of a single-tier municipality, are provided directly from the city.
With the city included, the district would have had a population of 183,077 in the 2016 census.
Subdivisions
Towns
- Espanola
- French River
- Markstay-Warren
- St. Charles
Townships
Unorganized areas
Local services areas in Unorganized Sudbury include:
- Cartier
- Foleyet
- Gogama
- Rainbow Country
First Nations reserves
- Chapleau 74A
- Chapleau 75
- Duck Lake
- Mattagami
- Mountbatten
- Whitefish Lake
- Whitefish River(boundaries include parts of both Sudbury and Manitoulin Districts)
Demographics
As a
2016 | 2011 | |
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Population | 21,546 (1.7% from 2011) | 21,196 (−3.0% from 2006) |
Land area | 40,205.41 km2 (15,523.40 sq mi) | |
Population density | 0.5/km2 (1.3/sq mi) | |
Median age | ||
Private dwellings | 12,557 (total) | 11,918 (total) |
Median household income |
Provincial highways
The Sudbury District is served by
The Ontario government is converting Highway 69 to a freeway. Virtually the entire route of Highway 69 within the Sudbury District is now four-laned as of December 2021, with the completion of the segment between the French River and Grundy Lake Provincial Park, while the route narrows back to a two-lane highway in the Parry Sound District until widening back into Highway 400 at Carling. The freeway conversion of the remaining route, and its eventual renumbering as an extension of Highway 400, are expected in the future, although no exact date has been confirmed as of 2022 for the completion of the project.
Other primary provincial highways in the district are:
- Manitoulin District,
- Nipissing District at Mashkinonje Provincial Park,
- Cochrane District, just outside Timmins,
- Highway 129, which runs from Highway 101 to the boundary of Algoma District south of Chapleau,
- Highway 144, which runs from the northwestern city limits of Greater Sudbury north to the boundary of Timiskaming District, just outside Timmins.
The Sudbury District also has a number of secondary provincial highways, which are the analogue in a district to county or municipal roads in Southern Ontario. They are important connections to the communities they serve, but are not significant routes for through traffic. The secondary highways are:
- Highway 528, connecting the community of Wolseley Bay (French River) to Highway 64,
- Highway 528A, which provides access to the south side of the water body at Wolseley Bay,
- Highway 535, connecting Highway 64 at Noëlville (French River) to Highway 17 at Hagar (St. Charles),
- Sables-Spanish Rivers),
- Highway 560, which runs from Highway 144 to the boundary of Timiskaming District, through Shining Tree,
- Westreeto Highway 560,
- Highway 607, which runs from Bigwood (French River) to Highway 64,
- Highway 607A, which provides road access to the French River,
- Highway 637, which runs from Highway 69 to the community of Killarney,
- Highway 661, which connects the community of Gogama to Highway 144.
See also Sultan Industrial Road.
Provincial parks
- Biscotasi Lake
- Chapleau-Nemegosenda River
- Chiniguchi River Waterway
- Chutes
- Esker Provincial Park
- Five Mile Lake
- French River
- Halfway Lake
- Ivanhoe Lake
- Killarney
- Killarney Lakelands and Headwaters
- La Cloche
- La Motte
- Lady Evelyn-Smoothwater
- Mashkinonje
- Missinaibi
- Mississagi River
- Obabika River
- The Shoals
- Solace
- Sturgeon River
- Wakami Lake
- Windy Lake
See also
References
- ^ 2011 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. March 21, 2019. Retrieved 2012-03-19.
- ^ 2016 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. August 12, 2021.
- ^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada and census divisions". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved April 2, 2022.
- 2006 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. August 20, 2019.
- 2001 Canadian Census. Statistics Canada. July 18, 2021.