Neighbourhoods in Timmins, Ontario

The city of Timmins, Ontario, Canada contains a significant number of named neighbourhoods. Several continue to be treated as distinct postal and telephone exchanges from the city core.

Barbers Bay

Barbers Bay is located on Frederick House Lake, near the municipal boundary with Iroquois Falls.

Connaught

Small village just west of Barbers Bay where the Frederickhouse River flows into Frederickhouse Lake.

Gold Centre

Gold Centre was a small planned town site situated just a half km southeast of Schumacher, Ontario. The town site though small is still an active community of less than 100 residents today.

Hoyle

Hoyle is located on Highway 101, approximately 15 kilometres east of South Porcupine.

Kamiskotia

Located East of Highway 101, Kamiskotia is home to the Kamiskotia Ski Resort, as well as many residential homes, and some cottages located on Kamiskotia Lake. Due to the long winters in Timmins, Ontario, Kamiskotia Ski Resort is a very popular winter attraction among residents, and tourists.

Melrose Gardens

Melrose Gardens, usually just known as "Melrose," is the northernmost subdivision in the urban core of Timmins, bounded by Jubilee Avenue, MacLean Drive and Airport Road.

Moneta

The area of Timmins south of downtown. It has a high concentration of people of Italian descent.

Mountjoy

Mountjoy, which comprises all of the city's populated area lying west of the Mattagami River, includes the Timmins Square shopping mall, Home Depot, Canadian Tire, Mark's Work Warehouse, Staples Business Depot and a large Wal-Mart store. It has a large and mainly Franco-Ontarian population.

Porcupine

Situated at the eastern end of Porcupine Lake, just northeast of the community of South Porcupine, the community of Porcupine represents the easternmost part of the city's urban core.

chumacher

Schumacher, once known as Aura Lake, is named after early settler and mining prospector Fredrick W. Schumacher, who sank the first mine shaft in the community during the Porcupine Gold Rush. It was once home to one of Canada's largest Croatian communities.

The area is also home to the McIntyre mine and the McIntyre Community Building, the primary sporting facility in Timmins, both of which were named for another early prospector, Sandy McIntyre.

Porcupine Gold Mines is currently engaged in a surface diamond drilling program on the previous Hollinger and McIntyre properties. This activity aims to better determine the location and extent of underground mine workings in the area, in addition to evaluating the potential to mine remnant gold mineralization as part of a possible future open-pit mining operation. The ongoing evaluation of the properties is part of the closure planning process that Porcupine Gold Mines is completing for the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines. Preliminary indications show the possibility of more than 4 million ounces of gold in the area.

Liberal Senator, National Hockey League Hall of Fame member, and recipient of the Order of Canada, the "Big M", Senator Frank Mahovlich, was born in Schumacher.

outh Porcupine

South Porcupine was founded in 1907 as an independent townsite for mining prospectors. It was subsequently merged into the Township of Tisdale.

The arrival of the Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Railway (T&NO) rail system in 1911 accelerated the growth of the area; until then, the trek to the South Porcupine was done by canoe and by foot from Haileybury.

That same year, (two days after the first train arrived in the South Porcupine), the entire area was destroyed in the fire of 1911. Because of the importance of the gold discoveries, very few people abandoned the area and it was rebuilt in two months.

The Township of Tisdale, which later included the townsite of Schumacher (established in 1911) and the town of South Porcupine, was incorporated in 1909.

In 1959, South Porcupine celebrated 50 years as a townsite with great festivities as the community was older than the larger City of Timmins to the west. Eventually, Tisdale Township, (South Porcupine and Schumacher) was amalgamated and became part of Timmins.

Notable people from South Porcupine include Domenic Rizzuto, Reid Feltmate, Jim Prentice, Gordon Thiessen, Bob Nevin, Murray Costello, Don Lever, Pete Babando, Bruce McCaffrey, Danny Belisle, Richard Schultz and Les Costello.

Former Neighbourhoods

Dome Extension

Often called "Dome Ex", it was an abandoned residential community which surrounded the Dome Mine.

Preston East

Hallnor