Timiskaming First Nation | |
Settlement Type: | First Nations reserve |
Flag Size: | 120x100px |
Mapsize: | 200px |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Quebec |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 200 |
Pushpin Label: | Timiskaming |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Coordinates: | 47.6333°N -107°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Abitibi-Témiscamingue |
Subdivision Type3: | Regional county |
Subdivision Name3: | None |
Established Title: | Settled |
Established Title1: | Formed |
Established Date1: | 1854 |
Leader Title: | Chief |
Leader Name: | Vicky Chief |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Name1: | Abitibi—Témiscamingue |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | Rouyn-Noranda–Témiscamingue |
Area Total Km2: | 18.20 |
Area Land Km2: | 18.39 |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 541 |
Population Density Km2: | 29.4 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −05:00 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −04:00 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
Postal Code: | J0Z 3B0 |
Area Code: | 819 |
Website: | http://www.atfn.ca |
Timiskaming (former official designation Timiskaming 19) is a First Nations reserve in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada, just north of the head of Lake Timiskaming. It belongs to the Timiskaming First Nation, an Algonquin band.[3] It is geographically within the Témiscamingue Regional County Municipality but administratively not part of it.
In 1853, following the proposed distribution by Commissioner of Crown Lands, John Rolph, the Governor General in Council, Charles Monck, 4th Viscount Monck, assigned the Nipissing, Algonquin, and Ottawa Indians of the Timiscaming region a reserve of, located along the Ottawa River, and originally known as Temiscamingue Reserve. But piece-by-piece, the reserve was reduced in size when the Indians ceded lots back to the government in 1897, 1898, every year from 1905 to 1917, 1939, 1953, and 1955. But many of these surrenders are now being disputed.[4]
On October 23, 1999, the Quebec government officially recognized a name change from Timiscaming to Timiskaming.[5] On July 30, 2002, the Department of Indian Affairs recognized that the reserve's name was changed to Timiskaming.[4]
As of May 2022, the registered population of the Timiskaming First Nation is 2,519 members, of whom 648 live on the Timiskaming reserve and 1,871 live off reserve.[6]
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The reserve's economy is tied to the adjacent town of Notre-Dame-du-Nord and mostly based on logging, farming, construction, and tourism. There are about 15 enterprises on the reserve.[3] The Timiskaming First Nation administration employs about 70 persons.
There is one school on the reserve: Kiwetin School, providing pre-Kindergarten to grade 8. It had an enrolment of 65 students in 2008-2009.[3]