Timiskaming District

Timiskaming District District de Timiskaming
District
Location of Timiskaming District in Ontario
Coordinates: 47°48′N 80°18′W / 47.8°N 80.3°W / 47.8; -80.3
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Region	Northeastern Ontario
Created	1912 (1912)
Government
• MPs	Charlie Angus, Marc Serré, Anthony Rota
• MPPs	France Gélinas, John Vanthof, Guy Bourgouin
Area [1]
• Land	13,299.92 km2 (5,135.13 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[2]
• Total	32,251
• Density	2.4/km2 (6/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Postal code FSA	P0J, P0K, P2N
Area codes	705, 249
Seat	Temiskaming Shores

Timiskaming is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The district was created in 1912 from parts of Algoma, Nipissing, and Sudbury districts. In 1921, Cochrane District was created from parts of this district and parts of Thunder Bay District.

The division had a population of 32,251 in the Canada 2016 Census. The land area is 13,299.92 km² (5,135.13 sq mi); the population density was 2.4/km² (6.2/sq mi).^[1]

It is just west of the similarly named Témiscamingue county in Québec, which is also informally called a region, but is administratively part of a greater region named Abitibi-Témiscamingue.

Temiskaming District is home to several provincial parks.