Timmins

Timmins is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, on the Mattagami River. The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,788 2016. The city's economy depends on characteristic asset extraction and is bolstered by enterprises identified with blundering and to the mining of gold, zinc, copper, nickel and silver. Timmins fills in as a provincial administration and conveyance focus.

The city has a huge Francophone people group, with over half bilingual in French and English. Research performed by archeologists demonstrate that human settlement in the territory is no less than 6,000 years of age; it's trusted the most seasoned follows found are from a traveling people of the Shield Archaic culture. Up until contact with pioneers, the land had a place with the Mattagami First Nation people groups.

Arrangement Number Nine of 1906 pushed this clan toward the north side of the Mattagami Lake, the site of a Hudson's Bay exchanging post previously settled in 1794. In the 1950s, the hold was migrated toward the south side of the lake, to its present-day area. The Timmins Rock of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League speak to Timmins in hockey. They are the city's lesser A group. In addition, their associate, Timmins Majors, of the Great North Midget League, are the Midget AAA group. They both play at the McIntyre Arena.