Timmins

Timmins

Timmins is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, on the Mattagami River. It is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,788. Timmins serves as a regional service and distribution centre. It has a large Francophone community, with more than 50% bilingual in French and English.

About Timmins in brief

Summary TimminsTimmins is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, on the Mattagami River. It is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,788. The city’s economy is based on natural resource extraction and is supported by industries related to lumbering and to the mining of gold, zinc, copper, nickel and silver. Timmins serves as a regional service and distribution centre. It has a large Francophone community, with more than 50% bilingual in French and English. The highest temperature ever recorded in Timmins was 4.45°C on July 12, 1936. The coldest temperature ever was recorded on July 11, 1936, at 4°45C. The area became home to dozens of prospectors during the \”Porcupine Gold Rush\”, who explored the areas around Porcupine Lake and the Frederick House River. In 1973, 35 townships covering 1.260 square mile were organized into the City of Timmins. In the 1990s, the City became a regional distribution centre for NortheasternOntario.

The Timmins area is near the northern edge of the hemiboreal humid continental climate. It’s believed the oldest traces found are from a nomadic people of the Shield Archaic culture. Up until contact with settlers, the land belonged to theMattagami First Nation peoples. The land was the site of a Hudson’s Bay trading post first established in 1794. In 1917, a dam was built at Kenogamissi Falls to provide power for the Timmins-Porcine mining camp. In 2013, Timmins became the regional distribution and service centre of Northern Ontario, with the population of 140,000. It also has a very cold winters, being in late summer and autumn among the coldest for any major city in any Canadian province, although it can get hot during the spring and summer during the summer and summer. It was named for Noah Timmins, who was President of Hollinger Mines. In 1912, mine manager Alphonse \”Al\” Paré named the mining settlement for his uncle, NoahTimmins.