Timmins
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Motto : The City with a Heart of Gold ("The City with a Heart of Gold") |
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| Location in Ontario | |||
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| Province : | Ontario | ||
| Region : | Cochrane District | ||
| Coordinates : | 48 ° 28 ′ N , 81 ° 20 ′ W | ||
| Area : | 2 961.58 km² | ||
| Residents : | 43,165 (as of 2011) | ||
| Population density : | 14.6 inhabitants / km² | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern Time ( UTC − 5 ) | ||
| Postal code : | P4N, P4P, P4R, P0N | ||
| Foundation : | 1912 | ||
| Mayor : | Tom Laughren | ||
| Website : | www.timmins.ca | ||
Timmins is a city in the northeast of the Canadian province of Ontario on the Mattagami River . In 2011 the city had 43,165 inhabitants, almost 40 percent of which belong to the significant Francophone minority of Ontario.
location
Timmins is about 35 km south of Cochrane as the crow flies on Highway 101. After Sault Ste. Marie in the southwest is 400 km.
history
The city was founded in 1912 by Noah Anthony Timmins (1867-1936), a Canadian mining entrepreneur. In 1929, Porcupine Camp was the first Ontario mine to have a rescue station, as 39 miners died of smoke and carbon monoxide poisoning in a fire the year before. Folk singer Stompin 'Tom Connors celebrated the event in a song called Fire in the Mine . In 1973 the Provincial Government of Ontario put all places within 3,200 km² including the city of Timmins, South Porcupine, Schumacher (Tisdale Township), Mountjoy Township, Porcupine (Whitney Township) and several smaller parishes together to form the new town of Timmins.
economy
The most important economic sector in the city is gold mining. Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc. operates a large gold mine near the city. In addition, the Kidd Mine is the deepest non-precious metal mine in today's Timmins area.
Other economic sectors are tourism and public institutions.
sons and daughters of the town
- Cec Linder (1921–1992), actor
- Allan Stanley (1926-2013), ice hockey player
- Bill Barilko (1927–1951), ice hockey player
- Frank Mahovlich (* 1938), ice hockey player
- Les Costello (1928–2002), ice hockey player and founder of the Flying Fathers
- Alfred V. Aho (* 1941), computer scientist
- Jamie Reid (1941-2015), writer
- Myron S. Scholes (* 1941), economist
- Pete Mahovlich (born 1946), ice hockey player
- Eric Vail (born 1953), ice hockey player
- Kathy Kreiner (* 1957), ski racer
- Hector Marini (born 1957), ice hockey player
- Dave Poulin (born 1958), ice hockey player
- Rick Lessard (* 1968), ice hockey player
- Natalie Brown (born 1973), actress
- Steve Sullivan (born 1974), ice hockey player
- Shean Donovan (born 1975), ice hockey player
- Marcel Victor Moreau (* 1979), author
- Valerie Anne Poxleitner (* 1987), musician and singer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistics Canada , accessed June 18, 2012.
- ↑ Census of the Timmins / Ontario agglomeration . Government of Canada. Retrieved January 16, 2015.
- ↑ Goldcorp.com Porcupine Mine ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 18, 2012.
