Unorganized South East Cochrane District

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Unorganized South East Cochrane District
Cochrane, Unorganized, South East Part
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Unorganized South East Cochrane
Coordinates: 48°18.5′N80°14′W / 48.3083°N 80.233°W / 48.3083; -80.233
CountryFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
ProvinceFlag of Ontario.svg  Ontario
District Cochrane
Government
  Federal riding Timmins-James Bay
  Prov. riding Timmins—James Bay
Area
[1]
  Land53.19 km2 (20.54 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [1]
  Total15
  Density0.3/km2 (0.8/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-5 (EST)
  Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code 705

Unorganized South East Cochrane District is an unorganized area in the Canadian province of Ontario, encompassing the small portion of the Cochrane District, immediately surrounding Highway 11 at the division's southern boundary with the Timiskaming District, which is not part of the municipality of Black River-Matheson which surrounds it. [2] It consists of the southern half of the geographic township of Benoit and is the southernmost limit of the Great Clay Belt of northern Ontario.

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The division had a population of 15 in the Canada 2011 Census, and a land area of 53.19 square kilometres. [3] The main settlement in the division is the ghost town of Bourkes, located at the Ontario Northland Railway crossing on Bourkes road. The area was initially settled by Scandinavian immigrants around 1911 as a dairy farming region and by 1914 had a store, railway station and siding, school, post office and bunkhouse as well as two gold mines. [4] The population peaked in the 1930s at 300, but slowly declined after the two local gold mines were shuttered and the timber trade dried up. The post office was closed in 1969 and the last store closed in the 1970s, today, only the disused bunkhouse and a few scattered houses remain of the settlement.

Demographics

Canada census – Cochrane, Unorganized, South East Part community profile
2011
Population15 (-40.0% from 2006)
Land area53.19 km2 (20.54 sq mi)
Population density0.3/km2 (0.78/sq mi)
Median age
Private dwellings13 (total) 
Median household income
References: 2011 [5] earlier [6] [7]

Population: [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Cochrane, Unorganized, South East Part census profile". 2011 Census of Population . Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
  2. GeoSearch 2006
  3. "Cochrane, Unorganized, South East Part census profile". 2011 Census of Population . Statistics Canada. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
  4. "Bourkes - Ghost Town".
  5. "2011 Community Profiles". 2011 Canadian Census . Statistics Canada. March 21, 2019. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
  6. "2006 Community Profiles". 2006 Canadian Census . Statistics Canada. August 20, 2019.
  7. "2001 Community Profiles". 2001 Canadian Census . Statistics Canada. July 18, 2021.
  8. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census