Gauthier, Ontario
Gauthier is a township municipality in Timiskaming District the Northeastern Ontario, Canada. The township had a population of 138 in the Canada 2016 Census. Its main population centre is Dobie, located just north of Ontario Highway 66, east of Kirkland Lake. The township has just one other named place, Northlands Park, west of Dobie on Ontario Highway 672 just north of Highway 66.History
Dobie housed the miners working the Upper Canada Mines, which produced 4,648,984 ounces of gold before closing in 1971.Transportation
Gauthier is served by two provincial highways:
The township is traversed in an east-west direction by the Nipissing Central Railway line that runs between Swastika and Rouyn-Noranda. The line continues to be operated, as a subsidiary of the Ontario Northland Railway, as a freight spur.Demographics
Private dwellings, excluding seasonal cottages: 62.
Mother tongue :
- English as first language: 85%
- French as first language: 7.5%
- English and French as first language: 7.5%
- Other as first language: 0%
People
Actress Sara Botsford was born in Dobie.
