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'''Timmins''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|t|ɪ|m|ɪ|n|s}} {{respell|TIM|ins}}) is a city in northeastern [[Ontario]], Canada, located on the [[Mattagami River]]. The city is the fourth-largest city in the [[Northeastern Ontario]] region with a population of 41,145 at the [[2021 Canadian census]] and an estimated population of 44,819 in 2023.<ref name=2021census/><ref name=estpop>{{cite web |url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1710014801 |title=Population estimates, July 1, by census metropolitan area and census agglomeration, 2021 boundaries |date=May 22, 2024 |access-date=September 10, 2024 |publisher=Statistics Canada}}</ref> The city's economy is based on natural resource extraction. It 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. 

The city has a large [[Franco-Ontarians|Francophone]] community, with more than 50% of the residents bilingual in French and English.<ref name="franco">{{cite web|title=Timmins {{!}} Vivre en Ontario|url=http://www.immigrationfrancophone-ontario.ca/?q=node/92|website=immigrationfrancophone-ontario.ca|publisher=Province of Ontario|access-date=November 27, 2016|archive-date=January 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105070013/http://www.immigrationfrancophone-ontario.ca/?q=node%2F92}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:City Hall Engineering Building in Timmins, Ontario.jpg|thumb|City Hall Engineering Building, formerly the main public library, previously the post office]]

=== Early history ===
Archaeological evidence indicates that the area has been inhabited for at least 6,500 years. The first inhabitants were nomadic peoples of the [[Archaic period (North America)#Shield Archaic|Shield Archaic culture]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Our History {{!}} City of Timmins |url=http://www.timmins.ca/visitors/explore-timmins/our-history |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312000558/http://www.timmins.ca/visitors/explore-timmins/our-history |archive-date=March 12, 2014 |access-date=January 25, 2017 |publisher=City of Timmins}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Schwimmer |first=Brian |title=shield archaic |url=https://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/anthropology/manarchnet/chronology/archaic/shield.html |access-date=January 25, 2017 |publisher=University of Manitoba}}</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite CiteSeerX |citeseerx=10.1.1.501.472 |first=John D. |last=Pollock |title=Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Impact: Assessment of the Sandy Falls and Lower Sturgeon Generating Stations Redevelopment Projects Located on the Upper Mattagami River. Report Prepared for Ontario Power Generation Inc. |date=December 1, 2006}}</ref> At the time of [[European colonization of the Americas|European contact]], the area was inhabited primarily by the [[Cree]] and [[Ojibwe]] peoples.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Indigenous Relations and Inclusion |url=https://www.timmins.ca/find_or_learn_about/indigenous_relations_and_inclusion |access-date=April 27, 2024 |publisher=City of Timmins}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Timmins |url=https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/pages/programs/provincial-plaque-program/provincial-plaque-background-papers/timmins |access-date=April 27, 2024 |publisher=Ontario Heritage Trust}}</ref> 

The first Europeans to make contact with the local Indigenous peoples were [[French colonization of the Americas|French explorers]] in the late 1600s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Heritage Matters - Our Francophone heritage |url=https://www.heritage-matters.ca/articles/our-francophone-heritage |access-date=April 27, 2024 |website=Heritage Matters e-magazine}}</ref>

The first attempt at a permanent European presence in the area did not come until 1785, nearly two decades after Great Britain defeated France in the [[Seven Years' War]] and took over its territory in North America east of the [[Mississippi River]]. [[Philip Turnor]], a surveyor and cartographer for the [[Hudson's Bay Company]], established a [[Trading post|trading outpost]] at [[Frederick House River|Fredrick House Lake]], about {{cvt|30|km}} north-east of present-day downtown Timmins. 

Although beaver fur was plentiful and still in demand in Europe, the trading post was not successful. Nearby competition, and the difficulty of navigating the [[Abitibi River|Abitibi]] and Fredrick House rivers by canoe, often resulted in the post being unsupplied.<ref name=":03">{{Cite book |last=Losey |first=Elizabeth Browne |title=Let Them be Remembered: The Story of the Fur Trade Forts |publisher=Vantage Press |year=1999 |isbn=9780533125722}}</ref>

Frederick House Post was functionally abandoned in 1812, when a man named Capascoos killed all 12 of the trading post's staff, as well as looted and damaged the building. Capascoos was never caught, and the building was never rebuilt. However, temporary log shelters were put in place nearby to facilitate fur trading until 1821, when the post was officially declared closed by the Hudson's Bay Company.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frederick House |url=https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/plaques/frederick-house |access-date=April 27, 2024 |publisher=Ontario Heritage Trust}}</ref><ref name=":03" />

More than a century later, in 1906, [[Treaty 9]] was signed between [[Anishinaabe]] ([[Algonquin people|Algonquin]] and Ojibwe), [[Mushkegowuk Council|Omushkegowuk]] Cree communities, and the [[Monarchy of Canada|Canadian Crown]]. It required the [[Mattagami First Nation]] to move to the north of Mattagami Lake and to cede territory.<ref>{{Cite web |publisher=Government of Canada; Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada; Communications Branch |title=Treaty Guide to Treaty No. 9 (1905–1906) |url=http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100028855/1100100028857 |access-date=January 25, 2017 |website=aadnc-aandc.gc.ca}}</ref>

=== Porcupine Gold Rush ===
{{Main article|Porcupine Gold Rush}}
The presence of gold in the area was long known to the local indigenous people, and the few Europeans who had settled nearby. Outcroppings of gold-bearing quartz were a familiar sight in the region, but there was little commercial interest due to the area's inaccessibility.<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last=Barnes |first=Michael |title=Fortunes in the ground: Cobalt, Porcupine & Kirkland Lake |date=1993 |publisher=Stoddart |isbn=978-0-919783-52-2 |location=Toronto}}</ref> 

The extension of the [[Ontario Northland Railway#Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway (1902–46)|Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway]] to [[Cochrane, Ontario|Cochrane]] in 1907, allowed prospectors to more easily access the area. This sparked an interest in the region's natural resources, leading to the [[Porcupine Gold Rush]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Timmins |url=https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/pages/programs/provincial-plaque-program/provincial-plaque-background-papers/timmins |access-date=April 27, 2024 |publisher=Ontario Heritage Trust}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Timmins Mine Finders / Builders |date=August 16, 2010 |url=https://www.mininghalloffame.ca/timmins-mine-finders-builders |access-date=April 27, 2024}}</ref> The first known prospectors were a team led by [[Reuben D'Aigle]]. They set out for Porcupine Lake in 1907 and dug several test pits in the surrounding area, but none of them had near the amount of gold which D'Aigle's team was seeking. They eventually abandoned their tools in the last pit they dug, approximately 8 km west of Porcupine Lake, and returned home. 

Two years later in 1909, a prospector duo consisting of Benny Hollinger and Alex Gillies arrived in the Porcupine region. They met up with another group, led by Jack Wilson. Earlier in the season he had found a "dome" of quartz that contained large veins of gold stretching several hundred feet in length and {{cvt|150|ft|order=flip}} in width. This section was later exploited and developed as the [[Dome Mine]]. 

Wilson advised Hollinger & Gillies that all the good sites in a {{cvt|10|km}} radius had been claimed, so the duo went slightly further west. There they stumbled upon D'Aigle's abandoned test pits and tools. While Gilles was inspecting the abandoned pits, Hollinger pulled a bit of moss from a nearby quartz outcropping and revealed a large vein of gold. Gillies later noted that he had found a boot print pressed into some moss covering the gold vein. This print was believed left by one of D'Aigle's team two years before. They had departed unaware of the large vein under their feet.<ref name=":12" />{{Rp|pages=87-89, 92}}

Two [[Mattawa, Ontario|Mattawa]] shopkeeper brothers, named [[Noah Timmins]] and [[Henry Timmins]], arrived in the area in 1910. They began purchasing shares of local mines, and bought Benny Hollinger's share from him. 

Around the same time, Scottish businessman Sandy McIntyre discovered the [[McIntyre Mines|McIntyre Mine]] near Pearl Lake, four miles away.<ref>{{cite web |title=Founding Fathers |url=http://www.timmins.ca/visitors/explore-timmins/founding-fathers |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020143318/http://www.timmins.ca/visitors/explore-timmins/founding-fathers |archive-date=October 20, 2017 |access-date=January 27, 2015 |publisher=City of Timmins}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=McIntyre, Sandy |url=http://mininghalloffame.ca/inductees/m-o/sandy_mcintyre |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202025536/http://mininghalloffame.ca/inductees/m-o/sandy_mcintyre |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |access-date=January 25, 2017 |publisher=The Mining Hall of Fame}}</ref> [[Hollinger Mines]] was incorporated later that year with five equal partners consisting of Noah and Henry Timmins; Duncan and [[John McMartin (Canadian politician)|John McMartin]] (also brothers); and Mattawa attorney [[David Alexander Dunlap|David Dunlap]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Timmins, Noah |url=http://mininghalloffame.ca/inductees/s-u/noah_a._timmins |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202030033/http://mininghalloffame.ca/inductees/s-u/noah_a._timmins |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |access-date=January 25, 2017 |publisher=The Mining Hall of Fame}}</ref>

==== "Moss slip" story ====
A popular [[Origin myth#Founding myth|founding myth]] of Timmins and the Porcupine area states that a man named Harry Preston slipped on moss and uncovered gold. In some versions of the story, he is responsible for triggering the Porcupine Gold Rush.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Turner |first=Bob |title=Natural Resources Canada and Ontario Geological Survey 2015. Timmins: Canada's greatest goldfields!; GeoTours Northern Ontario series |publisher=Queen's Printer for Ontario |year=2015 |pages=3}}</ref> However, historical records contradict both claims.

Harry Preston arrived in the Porcupine area as a part of a team led by Jack Wilson in June 1909, where they discovered a large "dome shaped quartz outcrop". <!-- Isn't this repetitive of what was written earlier in this section? -->Wilson was said to have been the first to notice gold as the Sun struck the quartz.<ref name=":4" />

{{Blockquote|As I was examining the seams in the quartz, about twelve feet ahead of me I saw a piece of yellow glisten as the sun struck it. It proved to be a very spectacular piece of gold in a thin sean of schist... when the boys came back we got out the drills and hammers, and that night had about 132 pounds of very spectacular specimens|Michael Barnes ''Fortunes in the ground: Cobalt, Porcupine & Kirkland Lake''<ref name=":12" />{{Rp|page=90}}}}

The only comparable mention of moss comes from Hollinger and Gilles, who arrived in the area two months after Wilson's team. According to Gilles's report, while he inspected D'Aigle's abandoned work, Hollinger was looking at some nearby quartz when he peeled back a bit of moss, revealing a large vein of gold.<ref name=":12" />{{Rp|page=92}}

{{Blockquote|I was cutting a discovery post and Benny was pulling some moss of rocks a few feet away when he suddenly let a roar out of him and threw his hat at me. At first, I thought he has gone crazy but when I came over to where he was, it wasn't hard to see the reason. The quartz where he had pulled the moss off looked as though someone had dripped a candle along it, but instead of wax, it was gold we saw. Don't let anyone ever tell you that the original Hollinger discovery left any doubts of its importance. When we pulled the moss three feet out of the ground and away the quartz stood out, about six-feet wide with splattered over it for about 60 feet along the vein. D'Aigle had worked the property and cut many trails through the bush but by a queer quirk of luck, one of his trails from the test pit passes the richest part of the vein at a point where he could have easily reached out and touched it with his hand.|Michael Barnes ''Fortunes in the ground: Cobalt, Porcupine & Kirkland Lake''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Timmins Museum |date=2023-08-15 |title=Ever wonder how the Hollinger mine was discovered? |url=https://www.timminstoday.com/column/remember-this/ever-wonder-how-the-hollinger-mine-was-discovered-7405959 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=TimminsToday.com}}</ref><!--This is too much repetition of similar accounts -->}}

Additionally, historians generally agree that expansion of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, which connected [[Central Ontario]] to [[Northern Ontario]], was instrumental in triggering the Porcupine Gold Rush because it made the area accessible.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> The [[Canadian Pacific Railway#1901–1928|Canadian Pacific Railway expansion]] to was also critical, as it enabled travellers from Toronto to go directly north instead of taking a time-consuming detour around [[Eastern Ontario]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Surtees |first=Robert J. |title=The Northern Connection: Ontario Northland Since 1902: Robert J. Surtees |date=1992 |publisher=Captus Press |isbn=978-0-921801-85-6 |location=Ontario}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Torlone |first=Joe G. |url=https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1565 |title=The Evolution of the City of Timmins: A Single-Industry Community |publisher=Wilfrid Laurier University - Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive). |year=1979}}</ref>{{Rp|pages=15-17}}

=== Settlement and company towns ===
A [[company town]] was founded near modern-day [[Gillies Lake]], to house [[Hollinger Mines]] employees. Mine manager Alphonse "Al" Paré named the growing mining camp "Timmins", after his uncle, [[Noah Timmins]], who was then the President of Hollinger Mines.<ref name=":12" />{{Rp|page=123}} Two more settlements were founded by competing mines: The "Porcupine/Dome" camp was situated on Porcupine Lake, and owned by [[Dome Mines]]. "Schumacher" camp was situated on Pearl Lake, and owned by McIntyre Mines.<ref name="History2">{{cite web |title=History of Timmins |url=http://www.immigrationtimmins.com/en/timminsfacts/history.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205113847/http://www.immigrationtimmins.com/en/timminsfacts/history.asp |archive-date=February 5, 2016 |access-date=May 2, 2016 |website=immigrationtimmins.com}}</ref>

Joe Torlone noted in his dissertation that Timmins was never truly a company town. The combined mines behaved more like a "very influential industrial citizen", rather than a single company that dominated all aspects of civilian life.<ref name=":5" />{{Rp|pages=3-4}} As the worker population grew, these camps started to mesh together as a single town. (Torlone later served as the municipal Chief Administrative Officer.)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Autio |first=Andrew |date=January 30, 2017 |title=Landers takes the reigns |url=https://www.timminstoday.com/local-news/landers-takes-the-reigns-521117 |access-date=April 27, 2024 |website=Timmins Today}}</ref> 

==== Great Porcupine Fire ====
{{Main article|Great Porcupine Fire}}
On July 10, 1911, unusually hot and dry temperatures caused small fires to ignite at the Porcupine settlement. These were initially described as a series of "bushfires", but strong winds spread them into the dry forest and they expanded. Evacuation efforts began on the morning of July 11, with women and children being ferried to the opposite end of Porcupine Lake. 

The small fires eventually merged, and grew into a single wall of fire, estimated to be at least {{cvt|20|mi|order=flip}} wide. The fire destroyed the Porcupine mining camp at around 3:30pm, and continued as far north as [[Cochrane, Ontario|Cochrane]]. The total number of deaths remains uncertain, with the lowest estimates being 73 and the highest suggesting there were more than 200 dead. A number of people drowned after fleeing into the lake in an attempt to escape the heat and smoke; others were killed by smoke while still trapped underground in the mine. 

The executives of the Dome Mine held meetings about reopening within two days of the fire. The camp was quickly rebuilt with help from various communities around Ontario, and operations soon resumed.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barnes |first=Michael |title=Killer in the Bush: The Great Fires of Northeastern Ontario |publisher=The Boston Mills Press |year=1987 |isbn=978-0919783478}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Porcupine Fire |url=https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/plaques/porcupine-fire |access-date=April 27, 2024 |website=Ontario Heritage Trust}}</ref>

The fire burned the thin layers of moss and soil characteristic of a [[Canadian Shield]] landscape. This revealed previously unknown veins of gold and other minerals, which helped facilitate economic recovery efforts.<ref name=":3" />

==== Incorporation, growth, and World Wars ====
Given the fire, and the need to replace housing as well as serve newly arrived refugees from the Porcupine camp, Noah Timmins to began planning a townsite at the Timmins camp. The first lots went up for sale on September 4, 1911, ranging in price from $5 to $10 ($135–$265 in 2024) for residential lots, and from $75 to $1,000 ($2,000–$25,000 in 2024) for commercial lots. Migrants were attracted to the new lands for sale, and the Timmins camp quickly surpassed the Porcupine and Schumacher camps in population. Timmins was incorporated as a municipality on January 1, 1912.<ref name=":5" />{{Rp|page=19}}

In November 1912, 1,200 members of the [[Western Federation of Miners]] Local 145 held a strike at all three mines in response to a proposal to lower their wages.<ref name=":22">{{Cite web |last=Bachmann |first=Karen |title=Labour movement sparked holiday |url=http://www.timminspress.com/2011/09/02/labour-movement-sparked-holiday |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202032146/http://www.timminspress.com/2011/09/02/labour-movement-sparked-holiday |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |access-date=January 25, 2017 |website=Timmins Press -CA}}</ref> Mine operators hired gun thugs, who fired on the picket line and were ordered out by the provincial government.<ref name="thecanadianencyclopedia.com2">{{cite encyclopedia |title=Company Towns |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/company-towns |access-date=March 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020164459/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/company-towns |archive-date=October 20, 2012}}</ref> After months without work, many men chose to leave the settlement; only 500 miners returned to work in July 1913.<ref name=":22" /> The strike won the men a nine-hour workday and a pay increase.<ref name=":22" />

In 1917, a dam was built at Kenogamissi Falls, downriver from Mattagami Lake, to provide power to Timmins and the surrounding area, Mattagami Lake was consequently flooded.<ref name=":04">{{Cite CiteSeerX |citeseerx=10.1.1.501.472 |first=John D. |last=Pollock |title=Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Impact: Assessment of the Sandy Falls and Lower Sturgeon Generating Stations Redevelopment Projects Located on the Upper Mattagami River. Report Prepared for Ontario Power Generation Inc. |date=December 1, 2006}}</ref>

A recruitment campaign for soldiers during the First World War was successful in enlisting around 600 men out of the less than 2,000 total residents at the time. The miners were coveted by the [[Canadian Expeditionary Force]] for their ability to dig trenches, and experience with handling explosives.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 28, 2022 |title=Letters home described life overseas during First World War |url=https://www.timminstoday.com/then-and-now/letters-home-described-life-overseas-during-first-world-war-6020609 |access-date=April 27, 2024 |website=Timmins Today}}</ref> News of the war and letters from soldiers abroad were frequently published in the town's local newspaper, ''The Porcupine Advance'' (TPA). After receiving news of [[Armistice of 11 November 1918|armistice]], major celebrations were held all around the Timmins area, as described by a journalist for TPA:
{{blockquote|Before six o'clock on Monday morning, the news had reached Timmins that the Armistice had been duly signed and the fighting was thus over for the present. Timmins at once commenced to celebrate and kept it up all day and most of the night. First, the fire bell rang; then all the other bells and all the steam whistles joined in the chorus, the outgoing T&NO train adding its due quota of joyful noise. Flags and decorations were brought out, and from an early hour in the morning, groups of boys and girls were out with their horns, whistles and tin pan bands. After the noon hour, the crowds began to gather in the main part of the town, one of the chief centres of interest being Marshall-Ecclestone's window where an effigy of the Kaiser was displayed. The effigy was made by the Hollinger carpenter staff and was an unusually clever piece of workmanship. The form was made of wood, the limbs and body being perfectly formed and the face and head well-shaped. It was more than life-size and very life-like. Dressed in long boots, brass helmet, iron crosses and shining sword, the wooden Kaiser was stuffed with oakum, ready for the flames.|''Timmins Celebrates Truce a Second Time''<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 13, 1918 |title=Timmins Celebrates Truce a Second Time |url=https://news.ourontario.ca/timmins/3456434/page/2?n= |work=The Porcupine Advance |page=1 |volume=3 |issue=51}}</ref>}}

The [[Great Depression]] did not adversely affect the economy of the area, and jobs were available in mining and lumber.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 26, 2022 |title=Ontario Mining Legacy Project |url=https://oma.on.ca/en/ontario-mining-association/ontario-mining-legacy-project.aspx |access-date=April 27, 2024 |website=oma.on.ca}}</ref>

During the Second World War, around a third of the city's population were enlisted into the armed forces. Timmins had its own bomber squadron known as "Porcupine Squadron No. 433",<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 2, 2019 |title=No. 433 (Porcupine) Squadron |url=https://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/bomber-command/bomber-command-no-433-porcupine-squadron/ |access-date=April 27, 2024 |website=Bomber Command Museum of Canada}}</ref> a heavy bomber unit of [[No. 6 Group RCAF|No. 6 group RCAF]] in [[Skipton-on-Swale]], [[England]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 11, 2023 |title=About one-third of local miners served overseas in the Second World War |url=https://www.timminstoday.com/column/remember-this/about-one-third-of-local-miners-served-overseas-in-the-second-world-war-7816261 |access-date=April 27, 2024 |website=Timmins Today}}</ref> Timmins' economy suffered slightly during this period as women were prohibited from working in mines under the Ontario Mining Act, leaving no one to replace the enlisted miners.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Monahan |first=Kathryn |url=https://hdl.handle.net/1807/104636 |title=Gender dynamics in a single industry community : Timmins, Ontario in World War II |publisher=Nipissing University |year=2010|hdl=1807/104636}}</ref>

===Decline and recent history===
In the 1950s, Mattagami 71, the [[Indian reserve|reserve]] of the [[Mattagami First Nation]] was once again relocated, this time to its present day location, south of Mattagami Lake.<ref name=":05">{{Cite CiteSeerX |citeseerx=10.1.1.501.472 |first=John D. |last=Pollock |title=Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Impact: Assessment of the Sandy Falls and Lower Sturgeon Generating Stations Redevelopment Projects Located on the Upper Mattagami River. Report Prepared for Ontario Power Generation Inc. |date=December 1, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |publisher=Government of Canada; Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada; Communications Branch |title=Treaty Research Report – Treaty No. 9 (1905–1906) |url=http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca/eng/1100100028859/1100100028861 |access-date=January 25, 2017 |website=aadnc-aandc.gc.ca}}</ref>

[[File:Gold-d79a.jpg|thumb|Specimen gold, probably from Pamour Mine]]

By the mid 1960s, the majority of the original mines had depleted their gold content and mines began to close.<ref name="History2" /> Hollinger Mine was closed in 1968, having produced nearly 20 million troy ounces of gold. Twenty years later in 1988, the McIntyre mines ceased operations having produced around 11 million troy ounces of gold.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gold Production in the Timmins Regional Resident Geologist District to the end of 2001 |url=http://www.discoverabitibi.com/Table%203%20Timmins%20Gold%20Production%20to%202001.pdf |access-date=April 27, 2024 |archive-date=October 25, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061025000855/http://www.discoverabitibi.com/Table%203%20Timmins%20Gold%20Production%20to%202001.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>[[File:Dome Mine 2.JPG|thumb|[[Dome Mine]] "super pit", 2010]]In 1973, 35 townships covering {{cvt|1,260|mi2|order=flip}}, including [[Neighbourhoods in Timmins#|Porcupine]], [[Neighbourhoods in Timmins#South Porcupine|South Porcupine]], [[Neighbourhoods in Timmins#Schumacher|Schumacher]], and Timmins were organized into the City of Timmins.<ref name="Barnes2">{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Michael |title=Fortunes in the Ground |date=1986 |publisher=The Boston Mills Press |isbn=0-919783-52-X |location=Erin, Ontario |page=123}}</ref>{{rp|140}}

The city's population peaked in the mid 1990s, when the city became a regional service and distribution centre for Northeastern Ontario. <ref name="History2" /> However, with the exception of a slight bump in 2011, the population has been consistently declining. 

Rail service to Timmins was discontinued in 1990, but is expected to return within the next decade.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 15, 2023 |title=Northlander train revival progressing on schedule, officials say |url=https://northernontario.ctvnews.ca/northlander-train-revival-progressing-on-schedule-officials-say-1.6314677 |access-date=April 27, 2024 |website=CTV News - Northern Ontario}}</ref>

The last of the original three mines to close was the Dome Mine, which was closed in 2017, after 107 years of operation, and about 17 million troy ounces of gold produced.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 6, 2017 |title=Goldcorp closing 107-year-old Dome mine |url=https://www.mining.com/goldcorp-closing-107-year-old-dome-mine/ |access-date=April 27, 2024 |website=MINING.COM}}</ref>

==Climate==
Timmins is near the northern periphery of the [[hemiboreal]] [[humid continental climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Dfb]]). Timmins has cold and snowy winters, being located in [[Northern Ontario]]. Temperatures in late summer and autumn tend to be among the coolest for any non-coastal major city in Canada. During the late spring and summer, temperatures can rise considerably, sometimes accompanied by high humidity and unstable air masses. The highest temperature ever recorded in Timmins was {{convert|39.4|C|0}} on July 12, 1936.<ref name= "July 1936">{{cite web
| publisher = [[Environment Canada]]
| url = http://climate.weather.gc.ca/climate_data/daily_data_e.html?hlyRange=%7C&dlyRange=1922-04-01%7C1957-12-31&mlyRange=1922-01-01%7C1957-12-01&StationID=4179&Prov=ON&urlExtension=_e.html&searchType=stnName&optLimit=yearRange&StartYear=1840&EndYear=2016&selRowPerPage=25&Line=0&searchMethod=contains&Month=7&Day=23&txtStationName=timmins&timeframe=2&Year=1936
| title = Daily Data Report for July 1936
| work = Canadian Climate Data
|date = 31 October 2011| access-date = 23 September 2016}}</ref> The coldest temperature ever recorded was {{convert|−45.6|C|0}} on February 1, 1962.<ref name="climate"/>

{{Timmins weatherbox}}

==Demographics==
{{Historical populations
|title = Historical populations
|type = Canada
|align = right
|width = 
|state = 
|shading = 
|percentages = 
|footnote =
|[[1912 Canadian census|1912]]|974
|[[1921 Canadian census|1921]]|3843
|[[1931 Canadian census|1931]]|14200
|[[1941 Canadian census|1941]]|28544
|[[1951 Canadian census|1951]]|27743
|[[1961 Canadian census|1961]]|29270
|[[1971 Canadian census|1971]]|28542
|[[1981 Canadian census|1981]]|46114
|[[1991 Canadian census|1991]]|47461
|[[1996 Canadian census|1996]]|47499
|[[2001 Canadian census|2001]]|43686
|[[2006 Canadian census|2006]]|42997
|[[2011 Canadian census|2011]]|43165
|[[2016 Canadian census|2016]]|41788
|[[2021 Canadian census|2021]]|41145}}

[[File:St. Anthony of Padua Cathedral Parish, Timmins.jpg|thumb|St. Anthony of Padua Cathedral]]

In the [[2021 Canadian census]] conducted by [[Statistics Canada]], Timmins had a population of 41,145 living in 17,886 of its 19,390 total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:41145-41788}}|41788|1}} from its 2016 population of 41,788. With a land area of {{cvt|2955.33|km2}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|41145|2955.33|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.<ref name=2021census>{{cite web | url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=Timmins&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1,4&DGUIDlist=2021A00053556027,2021S05101099&HEADERlist=0 | title=Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population Profile table: Timmins, City (CY) Ontario [Census subdivision] & Timmins Ontario [Population centre] | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=February 1, 2023 | access-date=September 9, 2024}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! colspan="2" | 2021 Canadian census !! Population !! % of total population
|-
| colspan="2" | [[European Canadians|European Canadian]]
| align="right| 38,515
| align="right| 81.46%
|-
| rowspan="11" |[[Visible minority]]<ref name=2021census/>
|[[South Asian Canadians|South Asian]] || align=right | 765 || align=right | 1.86%
|-
|[[Black Canadians|Black]] || align=right | 255 || align=right | 0.62%
|-
|[[Chinese Canadians|Chinese ]] || align=right | 195 || align=right | 0.47%
|-
|[[Filipino Canadians|Filipino ]] || align=right | 195 || align=right | 0.47%
|-
|[[Southeast Asian Canadians|Southeast Asian ]] || align=right | 70 || align=right | 0.17%
|-
|[[Arab Canadians|Arab ]] || align=right | 65 || align=right | 0.16%
|-
|[[West Asian Canadians|West Asian ]] || align=right | 60 || align=right | 0.15%
|-
|[[Latin American Canadians|Latin American ]] || align=right | 30 || align=right | 0.07%
|-
|[[Korean Canadians|Korean ]] || align=right | 30 || align=right | 0.07%
|-
|[[Japanese Canadians|Japanese ]] || align=right | 30 || align=right | 0.07%
|-
| Visible minority (not included above) || align=right | 30 || align=right | 0.07%
|-
| colspan="2" | Total visible minority population || align=right | 1,725 || align=right | 4.19%
|-
| rowspan="4" |[[Indigenous peoples in Canada|Indigenous peoples]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/ipp-ppa/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=Timmins&DGUID=2021A00053556027&GENDER=1&AGE=1&RESIDENCE=1&HP=0&HH=0 |title=Indigenous Population Profile, 2021 Census of Population Profile table: Timmins, City [Census subdivision], Ontario |date=June 8, 2023 | access-date=September 10, 2024}}</ref>
|-
|[[Métis ]] || align=right | 3,150 || align=right | 7.66%
|-
|[[First Nations in Canada|First Nations ]] || align=right | 2,640 || align=right | 6.42%
|-
|[[Inuit ]] || align=right | 55 || align=right | 0.13%
|-
| || Indigenous responses (not included above) || align=right | 60 || align=right | 0.15%
|-
| colspan="2" | Total Indigenous population || align=right | 5,905 || align=right | 14.35%
|-
| colspan="2" | ''Total population'' || align="right| ''41,145'' || align="right| ''100''
|}
{{Canada census
 |2021_population=41,145 | 2021_pop_delta=−1.5 | 2021_land_area=2,955.33 | 2021_pop_density=13.9
 |2021_median_age=42.0 | 2021_median_age_m=40.8 | 2021_median_age_f=43.2
 |2021_total_pvt_dwell=19,390 | 2021_mean_hh_income=82,000 | 2021_access_date=September 10, 2024
 |2016_population=41,788 | 2016_pop_delta=−3.2 | 2016_land_area=2978.83 | 2016_pop_density=14.0
 |2016_median_age= | 2016_median_age_m= | 2016_median_age_f=
 |2016_total_pvt_dwell=19,317 | 2016_mean_hh_income= | 2016_access_date=2017-03-16
 |2011_population=43,165 | 2011_pop_delta=0.4 | 2011_land_area=2979.15 | 2011_pop_density=14.5
 |2011_median_age= | 2011_median_age_m= | 2011_median_age_f=
 |2011_total_pvt_dwell=18,806 | 2011_mean_hh_income= | 2011_access_date=2012-02-17
 |2006_population=42,997 | 2006_pop_delta=−1.6 | 2006_land_area=2961.58 | 2006_pop_density=14.5
 |2006_median_age=39.6 | 2006_median_age_m=39.0 | 2006_median_age_f=40.3
 |2006_total_pvt_dwell=18,642 | 2006_mean_hh_income=55,623 | 2006_access_date=2012-02-17
 |2001_population=43,686 | 2001_pop_delta=−8.0 | 2001_land_area=2961.52 | 2001_pop_density=14.8
 |2001_median_age=37.1 | 2001_median_age_m=36.7 | 2001_median_age_f=37.5
 |2001_total_pvt_dwell=18,806 | 2001_mean_hh_income=45,681 | 2001_access_date=2012-02-17
}}

===Language===
In Timmins, according to the 2021 census, 60.26%% of the population reported English as their [[first language|mother tongue]] ([[English Canadians|Anglophone]]), 34.25%% reported French ([[Francophone Canadians|Francophone]]) as their first language, and 5.49% reported a non-official language, neither English nor French, as their first language ([[Allophone (Quebec)|Allophone]]).<ref name=2021census/> 50.8% of the population is bilingual in English and French.<ref name="franco" />

=== Jewish community ===
From the foundation of the city, Jewish [[Emigration|emigrants]], mostly from Russia and [[Eastern Europe]] came to the town in order to work in the mines industry.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Jewish Settlements in Northern Ontario |work=The Reform Advocate⁩ |date=April 29, 1916 |url=https://www.nli.org.il/he/newspapers/refadv/1916/04/29/01/article/22 |access-date=March 14, 2023 |via=nli.org.il |language=he}}</ref> In 1917 Rabbi Yaakov Schulman arrived in the city and was in charge of religious needs, such as [[Shechita|kosher meat]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Rabbi Shulman and family (Timmins, ON) |url=https://search.ontariojewisharchives.org/Permalink/descriptions21263 |website=Ontario Jewish Archives}}</ref><ref>Responsa 'chavalim baneimim', part 3 chapter 72</ref> In 1925 there were 200 [[Jews]] living in the city.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Syrian, Middle East immigrants developed northern Ontario, museum curator says |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/northern-ontario-immigration-development-1.3965612 |website=CBC news}}</ref> In that year the Jewish community was officially established. The community was not isolated and maintained good relationships with non-Jews, especially emigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe, who spoke the same languages they did. Only in the 1930s were actual community institutions built, such as a [[synagogue]] and a school.<ref name=":14">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTQ7hzTUBJoC&dq=timmins+jews&pg=PA230 |title=The Jews of North America |publisher=Wayne State University Press |year=1987 |isbn=0-8143-1891-6 |pages=230–233}}</ref>

Since 1928 the Jewish community has held an annual [[Purim]] ball. The ball was mixed: Jews and non-Jews, men and women. Part of the ball was a [[beauty pageant]] named ''malkat [[Esther|Ester]]''.<ref name=":14" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=March 13, 2022 |title=The Timmins Purim Ball |url=https://nivmag.com/the-timmins-purim-ball/ |website=NIV MAG}}</ref>

The Jewish population peaked around the 1950s, when it included around 160 families.

In the early 1970s the Timmins synagogue was closed due to a decrease in the town's Jewish population.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 3, 2009 |title=Timmins Torah finds new home in Toronto |url=https://thecjn.ca/news/timmins-torah-finds-new-home-toronto/ |website=The Canadian Jewish News}}</ref>

== Culture and contemporary life ==

===Tourism===
[[File:Gillies Lake Board Walk, Timmins, Ontario.JPG|thumb|right|[[Gillies Lake]] board walk]]
[[File:Chamber of Commerce in Timmins, Ontario.jpg|thumb|right|Chamber of Commerce]]Some of the main tourist attractions within the city include: The Timmins Museum and National Exhibition Centre, Cedar Meadows Wilderness Tours, Mount Jamieson Resort (formerly known as Kamiskotia Snow Resort), Porcupine Ski Runners Cross-Country Trails and Chalet, Hollinger Golf Club, Spruce Needles Golf Club, the Sandy Falls Golf Club, the [[McIntyre Community Building]] and the Timmins Snowmobile Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.timminssnowmobileclub.com|title=Timmins Snowmobile Club}}</ref> [[Snowmobile|Snowmobiling]] impacts the Timmins economy, as tourists travel from all over North America to explore area trails.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Moore|first1=Sarah|title=Snowmobiling capital of the world?|url=http://www.timminspress.com/2016/03/06/northeastern-ontario-looks-to-be-recognized-as-worlds-best-snowmobiling-destination|access-date=November 27, 2016|work=Timmins Press|date=March 6, 2016|archive-date=November 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127152957/http://www.timminspress.com/2016/03/06/northeastern-ontario-looks-to-be-recognized-as-worlds-best-snowmobiling-destination|url-status=dead}}</ref>

[[Hollinger Park]] is one of the city's main recreational spaces. The park is divided in two sections, the north side being the public park area, with the south side having a regulation sized baseball diamond and two soccer fields for more organized outdoor recreational endeavours. The baseball park has been home to the Timmins Men's Baseball League since 1985. Former Timmins resident [[Shania Twain]] played a concert at Hollinger Park on July 1, 1999. An estimated 22,000 people attended the outdoor concert.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Autio|first1=Andrew|title=Huge Timmins festival has taxpayers nervous|url=https://www.baytoday.ca/local-news/huge-timmins-festival-has-taxpayers-nervous-452382|access-date=November 27, 2016|work=BayToday.ca|date=October 31, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Branch News|url=http://www.ciphi.on.ca/pdf/Ontario-Branch-News/2000_SUMMER.pdf|journal=Ontario Branch News|issue=9|date=Summer 2000|access-date=November 27, 2016|archive-date=August 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812022555/http://www.ciphi.on.ca/pdf/Ontario-Branch-News/2000_SUMMER.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Pioneer Museum is located {{convert|39.5|km|mi|abbr=on}} northeast of the city centre in [[Neighbourhoods in Timmins#Connaught|Connaught]], a community of 400 people. Nearby communities include Barbers Bay, Dugwal, Finn Road, Hoyle, Ice Chest Lake, McIntosh Springs and Nighthawk. Local history in the area dates back over 300 years.<ref name="Events">{{cite web
| title = Events & Attractions
| url= http://www.tourismtimmins.com/events/arts-culture/
| website = tourismtimmins.com
| access-date = February 5, 2016}}</ref>

La Galeruche Art Gallery, located at 32 Mountjoy Street North (Centre Culturel La Ronde), provides local francophone artists with a venue to exhibit and sell their work.<ref name="Events"/> The building has since been torn down, but plans to rebuild are underway, as of March 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ICI.Radio-Canada.ca |first=Zone Société- |title=Une première pelletée de terre pour la reconstruction du Centre culturel La Ronde |url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1830073/timmins-reconstruction-centre-culturel-ronde |access-date=May 24, 2022 |website=Radio-Canada.ca |date=October 7, 2021 |language=fr-ca}}</ref>

The Porcupine Miner's Memorial tribute is a statue of the miner, head frame and tablets bearing the names of 594 miners killed in mining accidents were unveiled in 2008. The following year, the statues of a mother and two children were unveiled to commemorate those families left behind.<ref name="Events"/>

The Timmins Public Library was constructed in 2005 with locally manufactured products, using wood as the main structural material, making efficient use of natural resources while reducing construction waste. The eco-friendly design was recognized by the [[Green Building Initiative]], and the building achieved a 3 Green Globes rating for its efficient use of resources and sustainable development.<ref name="Events"/>

=== Sports ===
The [[Timmins Rock]] of the [[Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League]] represent Timmins in hockey. They are the city's junior A team. And their affiliate, Timmins Majors, of the Great North Midget League, are the Midget AAA team. They both play at the McIntyre Community Building.

=== Media ===
{{Main article|Media in Timmins}}
In 1952, broadcast pioneer [[J. Conrad Lavigne]] launched [[CHYK-FM|CFCL]], the first French-language radio station in Ontario. Prior to the introduction of cable television to the Timmins area in the latter part of the 1970s, the city's available TV channels consisted of English-language channel 3 broadcast out of Sudbury and CFCL's channel 6 (in English) and channel 9 (in French) broadcast from CFCL's studio located at the north end of Pine Street.

The ''[[Timmins Daily Press]]'' is the main English publication, publishing six issues per week. Other French-language media include newspapers ''Le Voyageur'' and ''Le Journal L'Express de Timmins''.<ref name="franco2">{{cite web |title=Timmins {{!}} Vivre en Ontario |url=http://www.immigrationfrancophone-ontario.ca/?q=node/92 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105070013/http://www.immigrationfrancophone-ontario.ca/?q=node%2F92 |archive-date=January 5, 2018 |access-date=November 27, 2016 |website=immigrationfrancophone-ontario.ca |publisher=Province of Ontario}}</ref>

==Government==
[[File:Hollinger Park, Timmins ON.JPG|thumb|right|Hollinger Park grandstands]]
[[File:Timmins Daily Press Building.jpg|thumb|right|The ''Timmins Daily Press'' building]]
The city's current mayor is Michelle Boileau.

Eight [[councillor]]s serve with the mayor to complete the municipal government. Those eight councillors are elected to one of five areas of the city through a [[Ward (politics)|ward electoral system]]; rural parts of the city elect one councillor each, while the urban core of the city is in a multi-member ward that elects four councillors (through [[Plurality block voting]]). Councillors are elected to a four-year term.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mayor and Council|url=http://www.timmins.ca/mayor-and-council|publisher=City of Timmins|access-date=November 27, 2016|archive-date=November 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127151824/http://www.timmins.ca/mayor-and-council|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Timmins City Council===
{{Main|Timmins City Council}}
{{div col}}
*Rock Whissell, Ward 1 Councillor
*Lorne Feldman, Ward 2 Councillor
*Bill Gvozcanovic, Ward 3 Councillor
*John P. Curley, Ward 4 Councillor
*Michelle Boileau, Ward 5 Councillor
*Andrew Marks, Ward 5 Councillor
*Kristin Murray, Ward 5 Councillor
*Cory Robin, Ward 5 Councillor
{{div col end}}

=== Provincial ===
The city was represented in the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] by MPP [[Gilles Bisson]] from 1990 until 2022, when he was defeated by Pirie.

=== Federal ===
The Member of Parliament for [[Kapuskasing—Timmins—Mushkegowuk]] is [[Gaétan Malette]].

==Education==

===Post secondary education===
The two main Post secondary institutions in Timmins is [[Northern College (Ontario)|Northern College]], a [[List of colleges in Ontario|College of Applied Arts and Technology]] and [[Collège Boréal]], which also has a sister campus of [[Université de Hearst]].<ref name="education">{{cite web|title=Education|url=http://www.timmins.ca/residents/education-safety-health/education|publisher=City of Timmins|access-date=November 27, 2016|archive-date=November 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127152255/http://www.timmins.ca/residents/education-safety-health/education|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Algoma University]] also offers degrees in Social Work and Community Development on the Northern College Campus in South Porcupine.

===School boards===
Four school boards serve the City of Timmins:<ref name="education"/>
{{div col}}
* [[District School Board Ontario North East]]
* [[Northeastern Catholic District School Board]]
* [[Conseil scolaire catholique de district des Grandes-Rivières]]
* [[Conseil scolaire public du Nord-Est de l'Ontario]]
{{div col end}}

===High schools===
{{div col}}
* [[O'Gorman High School (Timmins)|O'Gorman High School]]
* [[École Publique Renaissance]]<ref name="franco" />
* [[École secondaire catholique Thériault]]<ref name="franco" />
* [[Timmins High and Vocational School]]
* [[Roland Michener Secondary School]]
{{div col end}}

==Healthcare==
[[File:Fire Department in Timmins, Ontario.jpg|thumb|right|[[Timmins Fire Department]]]]
Timmins and District Hospital (TADH) is an accredited referral and teaching hospital that serves Timmins, Cochrane District, Temiskaming, Sudbury and Algoma Districts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tadh.com/about-tadh|title = About TADH {{pipe}} TIMMINS AND DISTRICT HOSPITAL}}</ref> [[Weeneebayko Area Health Authority]] also use TADH to transfer patients requiring more advanced care not available in their community health care centres.

The 134-bed hospital was formed in 1988 from the merger of St. Mary's General Hospital and Porcupine General Hospital, now Spruce Hill Lodge, a retirement home.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Spruce Hill Lodge celebrating 20th anniversary |url=https://www.timminstoday.com/local-news/spruce-hill-lodge-celebrating-20th-anniversary-940088 |access-date=May 24, 2022 |website=Timmins Today |date=May 31, 2018}}</ref> The two former hospitals were replaced in 1996 and 1993, respectively, when the current site was built.

==Transportation==
[[Timmins Victor M. Power Airport]] is the main regional airport for the Timmins area. Regional ground transportation is provided by [[Ontario Northland Motor Coach Services]] operating out of the Timmins Transit Terminal.<ref>{{cite web |title=TIMMINS {{!}} Ontario Northland |url=https://www.ontarionorthland.ca/en/station/timmins |website=ontarionorthland.ca |date=January 15, 2018 |access-date=April 18, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Timmins_Transit |title=Timmins Transit |website=CPTDB.ca |access-date=June 13, 2020}}</ref>
The nearest communities with train service are more than {{cvt|100|km}} away. They include [[Foleyet]] to the west and [[Gogama]] to the south, which are served by ''[[The Canadian]]'', [[Via Rail]]'s transcontinental passenger rail service. To the north of Timmins, [[Cochrane station (Ontario)|Cochrane]] is the southern terminus of the [[Ontario Northland Railway]]'s ''[[Polar Bear Express]]''. [[Matheson station|Matheson]] and Porquis Junction were formerly the closest stations to the city. Local transit is provided by [[Timmins Transit]].

==Notable people==
{{see also|List of mayors of Timmins}}
{{div col|colwidth=40em}}
* [[Alfred Aho]], computer scientist, member of US National Academies, professor at Columbia University, [[Turing Award]] winner
* [[Charlie Angus]], musician and songwriter for the band [[Grievous Angels]], has served as the [[New Democratic Party]] [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Timmins—James Bay (federal electoral district)|Timmins-James Bay]] since 2004.
* [[Paul Bellini]], comedy writer and television actor
* [[Anthony Del Col]], [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning writer
* [[Gilles Bisson]], [[Ontario New Democratic Party]] [[Member of Provincial Parliament (Canada)#Ontario|Member of Provincial Parliament]] from 1990 to 2022 for the provincial riding of Timmins.
* [[Michael Boisvert]], actor
* [[Natalie Brown (actress)|Natalie Brown]], actress
* Dave and Don Carroll, country / pop / folk band [[Sons of Maxwell]]
* [[Carlo Cattarello]], [[Order of Canada]] and Queen's Jubilee Medal recipient
* [[Lina Chartrand]], writer
* [[Jamie M. Dagg]], film director
* [[Derek Edwards]], comedian
* [[John Labow]], actor and television producer
* [[Maurice LaMarche]], comedian and voice actor
* [[J. Conrad Lavigne]], broadcasting pioneer
* [[Lights (musician)|Lights]] (born Valerie Poxleitner), vocalist, singer-songwriter
* [[Cec Linder]], actor
* [[Frank Mahovlich]], [[National Hockey League]] (NHL) [[Hockey Hall of Fame]] player and [[Senate of Canada|Canadian Senator]]
* [[Pete Mahovlich]], NHL player
* [[Bruce McCaffrey]], [[Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario]] MPP
* [[Derek McGrath]] actor
* [[Gord Miller (politician)|Gord Miller]], former Environment Commissioner of Ontario
* [[Alan Pope]], former Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPP
* [[Jim Prentice]], former Premier of [[Alberta]], former [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] from [[Calgary]] and federal cabinet minister
* [[Myron Scholes]], Nobel Prize winning economist
* [[Philippe Tatartcheff]], Swiss-born poet and songwriter notable for writing songs in French with [[Anna McGarrigle|Anna]] and [[Kate McGarrigle]]
* [[Gordon Thiessen]], governor of the Bank of Canada from 1994 to 2001
* [[Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet]], newspaper magnate, started his empire in the 1930s with the ''[[Timmins Daily Press]]''
* [[Lola Lemire Tostevin]], novelist and poet
* [[Shania Twain]], musician
* [[Bruce Watson (Scottish guitarist)|Bruce Watson]], guitarist with Scottish rock band [[Big Country]]
* [[Preston Pablo]], musician
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===Notable athletes===
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* [[Pete Babando]], [[National Hockey League]] (NHL) hockey player
* [[Bill Barilko]], NHL hockey player and subject of the 1993 [[The Tragically Hip|Tragically Hip]] song "[[Fifty Mission Cap]]"
* [[Baz Bastien]], NHL goaltender
* [[Sharon Bruneau]], [[Female bodybuilding|female bodybuilder]], [[Fitness and figure competition|fitness competitor]], actress and [[Stunt performer|stuntwoman]]
* [[Les Costello]], NHL hockey player with the [[Toronto Maple Leafs]] 1947–49. Later became a Roman Catholic priest in Timmins while continuing to play hockey for the "[[Flying Fathers]]"
* [[Réal Chevrefils]], NHL hockey player with the [[Boston Bruins]] 1951–59.
* [[Murray Costello]], Hockey Hall of Famer, president of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association
* [[Larry Courville]], NHL hockey player
* [[Shean Donovan]], NHL hockey player
* [[Paul Harrison (ice hockey)|Paul Harrison]], NHL hockey player
* [[Alex Henry]], NHL hockey player
* [[Art Hodgins]], Ice hockey player, inducted in the British Ice Hockey Hall of Fame
* [[Mark Katic]], NHL hockey player
* [[Kathy Kreiner]], Gold medallist, giant slalom, XIIth Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck, Austria, February 13, 1976
* [[Laurie Kreiner]], Alpine skiing, XI Olympic Winter Games, XIIth Olympic Winter Games
* [[Jason Gervais]], Athletics discus, Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics
* [[Denis Lapalme]], amputee athlete and Paralympic medallist
* [[Rick Lessard]], NHL hockey player
* [[T. J. Luxmore]], NHL Referee
* [[Frank Mahovlich]], NHL hockey player, [[Senate of Canada|Canadian Senator]]
* [[Pete Mahovlich]], NHL hockey player
* [[Jim Mair]], NHL hockey player
* [[Hector Marini]], NHL hockey player
*[[Bob McCord]], NHL hockey player
* [[Gus Mortson]], NHL hockey player
* [[Bob Nevin]], NHL hockey player
* [[Dave Poulin]], NHL hockey player
* [[Dean Prentice]], NHL hockey player
* [[Eric Prentice]], NHL hockey player
* [[Dale Rolfe]], NHL hockey player
* [[Steve Shields (ice hockey)|Steve Shields]], NHL goaltender
* [[Allan Stanley]], NHL hockey player
* [[Steve Sullivan]], NHL hockey player
* [[Walt Tkaczuk]], NHL hockey player
* [[Eric Vail]], NHL hockey player
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==See also==
*[[Kidd Mine]]
*[[List of francophone communities in Ontario]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{notelist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Timmins, Ontario}}
{{wikivoyage|Timmins}}
* {{Official website}}

{{Geographic location
 | Centre = Timmins
 | North = [[Unorganized North Cochrane District|Unorganized North Cochrane]]
 | Northeast = [[Iroquois Falls]]
 | East = [[Black River-Matheson]]<br />[[Unorganized South West Cochrane District|Unorganized South West Cochrane]]
 | Southeast =
 | South = [[Unorganized West Timiskaming District|Unorganized West Timiskaming]]
 | Southwest =
 | West = [[Unorganized North Cochrane District|Unorganized North Cochrane]]
 | Northwest =
}}
{{Cochrane District}}
{{Authority control}}

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[[Category:Cities in Ontario]]
[[Category:Mining communities in Ontario]]
[[Category:Single-tier municipalities in Ontario]]