Sudbury District District de Sudbury
District
Location of Sudbury District in Ontario
Coordinates:47°30′N82°00′W / 47.500°N 82.000°W /47.500; -82.000
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Region	Northeastern Ontario
Created	1907
Government
• MPs	Marc Serré,Carol Hughes
• MPPs	Michael Mantha,France Gélinas
Area [1]
• Land	39,896.79 km2 (15,404.24 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	22,368
• Density	0.6/km2 (2/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code	705
Seat	Espanola

TheSudbury District is adistrict inNortheastern Ontario in theCanadian province ofOntario. It was created in 1894 from townships of easternAlgoma District and westNipissing District. In 1973, theRegional Municipality of Sudbury was created as a separate jurisdiction out of the district.

The overwhelming majority of the district (about 92%) is unincorporated and part ofUnorganized North Sudbury District. With the exception ofChapleau, all of the district's incorporated municipalities are found in the area immediately surrounding the city ofGreater Sudbury to the west, east and south. North of the Greater Sudbury area, the district is sparsely populated; between Sudbury and Chapleau, only unincorporated settlements,ghost towns and smallFirst Nations reserves are found.

Because thedistricts ofNorthern Ontario are unincorporated territorial divisions, unlike thecounties orregional municipalities ofSouthern Ontario, the city ofGreater Sudbury is legally defined as part of the district in the geographic sense.

Politically, however, the district and the city are considered two distinct census divisions and two distinct jurisdictions for provincial government services. The district's social services board—which has offices in the district seat ofEspanola, as well as satellite offices in several other communities in the district—instead shares its jurisdictional area with the neighbouringManitoulin District, whereas equivalent services in Greater Sudbury, which has the status of a single-tier municipality, are provided directly from the city.

With the city included, the district would have had a population of 183,077 in the 2016 census.

Towns:

• Espanola
• French River
• Markstay-Warren
• St. Charles

Townships:

• Baldwin
• Chapleau
• Killarney
• Nairn and Hyman
• Sables-Spanish Rivers

Unorganized areas:

• Sudbury, Unorganized, North Part - Local services areas include:
  • Cartier
  • Foleyet
  • Gogama
  • Rainbow Country

• Chapleau 74A
• Chapleau 75
• Duck Lake
• Mattagami
• Mountbatten
• Whitefish Lake
• Whitefish River (boundaries include parts of both Sudbury and Manitoulin Districts)

As acensus division in the2021 Census of Population conducted byStatistics Canada, the Sudbury District had a population of22,368 living in9,915 of its13,453 total private dwellings, a change of3.8% from its 2016 population of21,546. With a land area of 39,896.79 km² (15,404.24 sq mi), it had a population density of0.6/km² (1.5/sq mi) in 2021.^[1]

The Sudbury District is served byTrans-Canada Highways17, which leads from the community of Walford (Sables-Spanish Rivers) in the west to the community of Warren (Markstay-Warren) in the east, and69, which enters the district at French River and exits at the southern boundary of Greater Sudbury.

The Ontario government is converting Highway 69 to afreeway. Virtually the entire route of Highway 69 within the Sudbury District is now four-laned as of December 2021, with the completion of the segment between the French River andGrundy Lake Provincial Park, while the route narrows back to a two-lane highway in the Parry Sound District until widening back intoHighway 400 atCarling. The freeway conversion of the remaining route, and its eventual renumbering as an extension of Highway 400, are expected in the future, although no exact date has been confirmed as of 2022 for the completion of the project.

Other primary provincial highways in the district are:

• Highway 6, which extends from Highway 17 south toWhitefish Falls, where it enters theManitoulin District,
• Highway 64, which runs from Highway 69 east and north through the Municipality of French River, and enters theNipissing District atMashkinonje Provincial Park,
• Highway 101, which extends from the boundary ofAlgoma District, west of Chapleau, to the boundary ofCochrane District, just outsideTimmins,
• Highway 129, which runs from Highway 101 to the boundary of Algoma District south ofChapleau,
• Highway 144, which runs from the northwestern city limits of Greater Sudbury north to the boundary of Timiskaming District, just outside Timmins.

The Sudbury District also has a number of secondary provincial highways, which are the analogue in a district to county or municipal roads in Southern Ontario. They are important connections to the communities they serve, but are not significant routes for through traffic. The secondary highways are:

• Highway 528, connecting the community of Wolseley Bay (French River) to Highway 64,
• Highway 528A, which provides access to the south side of the water body at Wolseley Bay,
• Highway 535, connecting Highway 64 at Noëlville (French River) to Highway 17 at Hagar (St. Charles),
• Highway 553, extending north from the community of Massey (Sables-Spanish Rivers),
• Highway 560, which runs from Highway 144 to the boundary ofTimiskaming District, throughShining Tree,
• Highway 560A, which connectsWestree to Highway 560,
• Highway 607, which runs from Bigwood (French River) to Highway 64,
• Highway 607A, which provides road access to theFrench River,
• Highway 637, which runs from Highway 69 to the community ofKillarney,
• Highway 661, which connects the community of Gogama to Highway 144.

See alsoSultan Industrial Road.

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