Editing Moosonee (section)

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|name                   = Moosonee
|official_name          = Town of Moosonee
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|subdivision_name2      = [[Northeastern Ontario]]
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|subdivision_name3      = [[Cochrane District|Cochrane]]
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|leader_name            = Wayne Taipale<ref name=council/>
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|leader_name2           = [[Charlie Angus]] ([[New Democratic Party|NDP]])
|leader_title3          = [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario|MPP]]
|leader_name3           = [[Guy Bourgouin]] ([[Ontario New Democratic Party|ONDP]])
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|established_date       = 1903
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|population_total       = 1512
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|area_code              = [[Area codes 705, 249, and 683|705]]
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'''Moosonee''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|m|uː|s|ə|'|n|iː}}) is a town in [[Northeastern Ontario]], Canada, on the [[Moose River (Ontario)|Moose River]] approximately {{cvt|19|km}} south of [[James Bay]]. It is considered to be "the Gateway to the Arctic" and has [[Ontario]]'s only saltwater port.<ref name=ont>{{cite web|url=https://www.ontario.ca/en/about_ontario/004660.html|title=About Ontario: Moosonee|publisher=Queen's Printer for Ontario|access-date=2010-12-22|archive-date=2012-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121018002148/http://www.ontario.ca/en/about_ontario/004660.html}}</ref> Nearby, on [[Moose Factory Island]], is the community of [[Moose Factory]] to which it is connected by [[water taxi]] in the summer and [[ice road]] in the winter.

There is no road connection to the community but flights are provided by [[Air Creebec]]<ref name=airc>{{cite web|url=https://www.aircreebec.ca/destinations/ |title=Air Creebec Destinations|access-date=16 September 2023}}</ref> and by [[Thunder Airlines]],<ref name=thund>{{cite web|url=https://www.thunderair.com/daily-flights#route-map |title=Thunder Airlines Flight Schedule|access-date=16 September 2023}}</ref> via [[Moosonee Airport]].<ref name="TOWN OF MOOSONEE">{{cite web|url=http://www.moosonee.ca/|title=TOWN OF MOOSONEE|accessdate=15 March 2021}}</ref> Moosonee is also the railhead of the [[Ontario Northland Railway]] where goods are transferred to barges and aircraft for transport to more northerly communities. Moosonee is not particularly far north, being located at 51°N, roughly the same latitude as [[Saskatoon]] and [[Calgary]], but is colder because of its proximity to [[Hudson Bay]] and isolated by its lack of road access to the rest of Ontario. The community was the site of a [[fur trade|fur trading]] post set up in 1903 by [[Revillon Frères]], competitors to the [[Hudson's Bay Company]], which later bought out Révillon.

Moosonee formerly held the status of a development area, the only community in the province with that designation, and was governed by a locally-elected board subject to formal appointment by the Ontario provincial government. It became incorporated as a town effective January 1, 2001, with an elected mayor and four-person council.