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29-524: Nipigon ( / ˈ n ɪ p ɪ ɡ ən / ) is a township in Thunder Bay District , Northwestern Ontario, Canada, located along the west side of the Nipigon River and south of the small Helen Lake running between Lake Nipigon and Lake Superior . Lake Nipigon is located approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of Nipigon. Located at latitude 49.0125° N, Nipigon is the northernmost community on

58-536: A township is one form of the subdivision of a county . In Quebec, the term is canton in French. The historic colony of Nova Scotia (present-day Nova Scotia, New Brunswick , and Prince Edward Island ) used the term township as a subdivision of counties and as a means of attracting settlers to the colony. In Prince Edward Island, the colonial survey of 1764 established 67 townships, known as lots, and 3 royalties, which were grouped into parishes and hence into counties;

87-467: A district, i.e. in Northern Ontario ). A township municipality may consist of a portion of one or more geographic townships united as a single entity with a single municipal administration. Often rural counties are subdivided into townships. In some places, usually if the township is in a county rather than in a regional municipality , the head of a political township may be called a " reeve ", not

116-606: A mayor. However, the distinction is changing as many rural townships are replacing the title with "mayor" to reduce confusion. A few townships keep both titles and designate "mayor" as the head of the municipal council and use "reeve" to denote the representative to the upper tier (usually county) council. The term "geographic township" is also used in reference to former political townships that were abolished or superseded as part of municipal government restructuring. In Quebec , townships are called cantons in French and can also be political and geographic, similar to Ontario although

145-464: A political unit called a rural municipality in general is 3 townships by 3 townships in size, or 18 miles squared, about 324 square miles (840 km ). Three municipalities in British Columbia , Langley , Esquimalt and Spallumcheen , have "township" in their official names but legally hold the status of district municipalities . The North West Company The North West Company Inc.

174-575: A population of 1,473 living in 663 of its 747 total private dwellings, a change of -10.3% from its 2016 population of 1,642 . With a land area of 107.94 km (41.68 sq mi), it had a population density of 13.6/km (35.3/sq mi) in 2021. The chief industries in Nipigon are forest products, fishing, and tourism. Timbering has been common sporadically to the north, the northwest and further north within Lake Nipigon basin, along with parts of

203-553: A post on Front Street from 1905 to 1916. In 1908, Nipigon Township was incorporated, and the next year the first municipal elections were held with McKirdy elected as mayor. In the 1910s, the Canadian Northern Railway was built through the township and opened for passenger service in 1915 (all traffic on this line ceased by 2005 and the rails were removed in 2010). In 1937, the bridge for the Trans-Canada Highway

232-554: A shallow bay on the south-east shore of Helen Lake (at the site of today's Lake Helen 53A reserve). It operated until 1775. The North West Company had a post at the mouth of the Nipigon River from 1785 to 1821, which was likely taken over by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) when these two companies merged in 1821. In the fall of 1859, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) set up a trading post at

261-702: A small outpost with 2 or 3 dilapidated log cabins until 1871, when Red Rock was made headquarters of the Nipigon District. It was then rebuilt, expanded, and became a full post. From 1881 to 1887, Red Rock was the headquarters of the Michipicoten District, and from 1892 on, headquarters of the Lake Superior District. In 1885, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) tracks were completed across the north shore of Lake Superior, boosting trade at

290-762: Is a multinational Canadian grocery and retail company which operates stores in Canada's western provinces and northern territories ; the US states of Alaska and Hawaii ; and several other countries and US territories in Oceania and the Caribbean . The company traces its history back to the North West Company , a fur trading business headquartered in the city of Montreal in British North America from 1779 to 1821. It

319-546: Is surrounded with pine and other varieties of forests. First Nations have lived in the Nipigon area for thousands of years, leaving behind rock paintings on the cliffs at the mouth of the Nipigon River. During the European colonization, the area was home to a succession of fur trading forts and posts. Starting in 1665, French explorers built several forts on Lake Nipigon. Circa 1717, Zacharie Robutel de La Noue built Fort Ste Anne, its exact location now uncertain but possibly in

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348-499: The Great Lakes . A communications tower near Nipigon broadcasts a local radio station and television channels from Thunder Bay, including CKPR (TBT), CFNO and CBQT . The Nipigon Crater or Crater Nipigon on Mars is named after this town. Nipigon is located northeast of Thunder Bay , southwest of Geraldton and Beardmore (both in the municipality of Greenstone ), west of Marathon , and northwest of Sault Ste. Marie . Nipigon

377-631: The Prairie Provinces and parts of British Columbia , a township is a division of the Dominion Land Survey . Townships are (mostly) 6-by-6-mile (9.7 by 9.7 km) squares, about 36 square miles (93 km ) in area. The townships are not political units (although political boundaries often follow township boundaries) but exist only to define parcels of land relatively simply. Townships are divided into 36 equal 1-by-1-mile (1.6 by 1.6 km) square parcels, known as "sections." In Saskatchewan ,

406-695: The Russian-American Company . Cost-U-Less, which operates in Hawaii, the South Pacific and the Caribbean, was acquired in 2007. In 2017, 76% of Roadtown Wholesale Trading Ltd, which operates in the British Virgin Islands was acquired. The French controlled much of what is now Canada in the early 1700s. As a result, their traders had a large fur trading network. After the conquest of New France by

435-549: The 1800s. They are used primarily for geographic purposes, such as land surveying, natural resource exploration and tracking of phenomena such as forest fires or tornados , but are not political entities. Township municipalities, also called "political townships", are areas that have been incorporated with municipal governments, and are a lower-tier municipality (if located in a county or regional municipality , i.e. in Southern Ontario ) or single-tier municipality (if located in

464-569: The British in 1763, French traders founded the North West Company and continued expanding their fur trade into the Canadian interior. The competition with the Hudson's Bay Company led to a massive environmental impact with numerous fur trade posts being built, the interior of Canada being explored, and the beaver population being exhausted. The fur trade created conflict which increased tensions between

493-700: The British, French and Indigenous People. The North West Company's head office is located in Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada , built partly on the site of Upper Fort Garry . This building used to serve as the head office of the Hudson's Bay Company . It also operates two offices in the United States cities of Anchorage, Alaska , and Boca Raton, Florida . As of 2014 , the North West Company had 4,921 employees in Canada and 1,726 employees in its international operations in Alaska,

522-491: The HBC post. But since the post was along the river, trade gradually shifted to new businesses built closer to the railroad. In 1899, the HBC built a retail shop across from the railway station in order to compete. To avoid confusion with another Red Rock locality in eastern Ontario, the HBC post was renamed to Nipigon (or Nepigon) in 1900, taking the name of the CPR station. As a consequence,

551-399: The Nipigon post on Lake Nipigon was renamed to Nipigon House. In 1902, the trading post burnt down and the Lake Superior District headquarters were moved to Fort William. Although fur trade had ceased, the retail store prospered due to increased business from tourists arriving by train. In 1910, HBC resumed fur trade in order to compete with another fur trade company, Revillon Frères , that had

580-655: The first of their kind in Ontario, replacing the 1937 bridge. On January 10, 2016, the first bridge heaved apart but did not collapse, resulting in traffic having to reroute through the United States. However, one lane was re-opened to traffic 17 hours later. Nipigon has Ontario Northland motor coach service on its Sault Ste. Marie–Thunder Bay route. Nipigon is the birthplace of two time world curling champion Allan A. "Al" (the Iceman) Hackner , who won The Brier in 1982 and 1985. Township (Canada) In Eastern Canada ,

609-754: The geographic use is not used much or at all. They were introduced after the British Conquest, primarily as a surveying unit. They were designated and cover most of the unattributed territory in Eastern Quebec and what is now known as the Eastern Townships and later used in surveying the Outaouais and Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean regions. Townships often served as the territorial basis for new municipalities, but township municipalities are no different from other types such as parish or village municipalities. In

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638-609: The other is a two-lane highway bridge constructed by the Province of Ontario. With the exception of the Canadian National Railway transcontinental rail line, the two bridges are the narrowest east-west land link in Canada's transportation system. Both Highways 11 and 17 and the Canadian Pacific Railway route all their traffic across those bridges. The Nipigon River Bridge is a pair of two-lane cable-stayed bridges,

667-441: The southwest. Nipigon is a setting off point for fishing excursions onto Lake Superior and the Nipigon River system leading up to Lake Nipigon. Fish varieties common to this area include Atlantic salmon , lake trout , speckled trout (the world's largest speckled trout was caught in the Nipigon River in 1915, weighing in at 14.5 pounds (6.6 kg)), rainbow trout , walleye , northern pike , bass , and perch . Nipigon and

696-463: The surrounding area have a wide array of outdoor recreational activities for all times of the year. A select number of cliffs in the Nipigon area are being developed into rock climbing destinations. Nipigon is served by several transportation corridors: There are two bridges at the east end of town spanning the Nipigon River: one is a single-track railway bridge for the Canadian Pacific Railway, and

725-401: The townships were geographically and politically the same. In New Brunswick, parishes have taken over as the present-day subdivision of counties, and present-day Nova Scotia uses districts as appropriate. In Ontario , there are both geographic townships and township municipalities. Geographic townships are the original historical administrative subdivisions surveyed and established primarily in

754-488: The waterfront of the current townsite, called Pierre Rouge or Roche Rouge (French for Red Rock). Built to protect trade at its post on Lake Nipigon, Fort Nipigon , it functioned as a transshipment point for cargo that was brought up the Great Lakes by steamers and then taken by canoe up the Nipigon River to Fort Nipigon. It was an outpost for Fort William until circa 1864, when it became an outpost of Fort Nipigon. It remained

783-546: Was built over the Nipigon River. In 1938, the HBC operations at Nipigon were transferred to the Small Stores Division, and transferred again in 1961 to the Northern Stores Department. HBC divested this department in 1987 to The North West Company , and the store has closed since then. On February 6, 2007, a devastating fire ripped through Multiply Forest Products, burning the mill to the ground. The mill

812-637: Was merged into the Hudson's Bay Company in 1821. The enterprise continued as the Fur Trade Department, and then the Northern Stores Division of Hudson's Bay Company. In 1987, the division was acquired by a group of investors and in the 1990s it was relaunched as The North West Company. It is now a publicly traded company and is composed mainly of the old HBC Northern Stores Division. The Alaska Commercial Company , which makes up The North West Company's Alaskan operations, traced its roots back to

841-453: Was the main employer in the town. Less than a month earlier workers at the mill had purchased it from Columbia Forest Products of Portland, Oregon . At the time of the sale, a $ 4-million modernization plan for the mill was also announced. More than 100 people were employed at the plant, which produced hardwood underlayment for vinyl, plywood and laminate flooring. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Nipigon had

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