Gardiner Township

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Gardiner
Geographic Township
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Gardiner
Location in Ontario
Coordinates: 50°41′35″N81°34′53″W / 50.69306°N 81.58139°W / 50.69306; -81.58139 [1]
Country Canada
Province Ontario
District Cochrane
Part Unorganized North
Elevation
[2]
55 m (180 ft)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern Time Zone)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (Eastern Time Zone)
Postal Code FSA
P0L
Area codes 705, 249

Gardiner Township is a geographic township in the Unorganized North Part of Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada. [1] [3]

The township is the location of the mouths of Pickett Creek and the Gardiner River at the Mattagami River, and the confluence of the Mattagami River and the Missinaibi River that forms the Moose River, a river that flows to James Bay.

There is also a community and unorganized place called Gardiner [4] in geographic Blount Township [5] in Cochrane District about 150 kilometres (90 mi) to the southeast.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Gardiner". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2016-12-11. (township)
  2. ↑ Elevation taken at geographic coordinates from Google Maps. Accessed 2016-12-10.
  3. ↑ "Gardiner" (PDF). Geology Ontario - Historic Claim Maps. Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2016-12-10.
  4. ↑ "Gardiner". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2016-12-10. (place)
  5. ↑ "Blount" (PDF). Geology Ontario - Historic Claim Maps. Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry . Retrieved 2016-12-10.[ permanent dead link ]

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