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Tehkummah
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Tehkummah |
| official_name | Township of Tehkummah |
| settlement_type | Township (single-tier) |
| native_name | |
| image_skyline | South Baymouth - Manitoulin, Ontario, Canada - October 12, 2023.jpg |
| image_caption | South Baymouth |
| pushpin_map | CAN ON Manitoulin#Ontario |
| coordinates | |
| subdivision_type | Country |
| subdivision_name | Canada |
| subdivision_type1 | Province |
| subdivision_name1 | Ontario |
| subdivision_type2 | District |
| subdivision_name2 | Manitoulin |
| government_type | Township |
| leader_title | Reeve |
| leader_name | John Carter Deforge |
| leader_title1 | MP |
| leader_name1 | Jim Belanger (Conservative) |
| leader_title2 | MPP |
| leader_name2 | Bill Rosenberg (PC) |
| established_title | |
| established_title2 | Incorporated |
| established_date2 | 1881 |
| area_footnotes | |
| area_land_km2 | 131.70 |
| population_as_of | 2021 |
| population_footnotes | |
| population_total | 450 |
| population_density_km2 | 3.4 |
| timezone | EST |
| utc_offset | -5 |
| timezone_DST | EDT |
| utc_offset_DST | -4 |
| elevation_footnotes | |
| postal_code_type | Postal code |
| postal_code | P0P 2C0 |
| area_codes | 705, 249 |
| website |
Tehkummah is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located on Manitoulin Island.
Communities
The best known community in the township is South Baymouth (), the northern docking point of the MS Chi-Cheemaun passenger-car ferry which traverses the Main Channel of Georgian Bay to the community of Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula. At the dock, the provincial Highway 6, whose southern segment ends at Tobermory, resumes and continues northward to its terminus at Highway 17 north of Espanola.
The administrative centre of the township is the community of Tehkummah ().
The township also includes the ghost towns of Michael's Bay and Snowville.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Tehkummah had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 131.7 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.
| 1881 |506 | 1891 |405 | 1901 |521 | 1911 |577 | 1921 |560 | 1931 |537 | 1941 |556 | 1951 |509 | 1956 |521 | 1961 |473 | 1966 |456 | 1971 |453 | 1976 |385 | 1981 |370 | 1986 |349 | 1991 |389 | 1996 |371 | 2001 |367 | 2006 |382 | 2011 |406 | 2016 |436 | 2021 |450
Climate
|Jan record high C = 7.8 |Feb record high C = 8.0 |Mar record high C = 15.0 |Apr record high C = 24.5 |May record high C = 29.5 |Jun record high C = 30.0 |Jul record high C = 33.9 |Aug record high C = 32.5 |Sep record high C = 28.3 |Oct record high C = 23.9 |Nov record high C = 17.2 |Dec record high C = 14.0 |year record high C = 33.9 |Jan record low C = −37.0 |Feb record low C = −36.5 |Mar record low C = −31.1 |Apr record low C = −19.5 |May record low C = −4.4 |Jun record low C = 0.0 |Jul record low C = 4.4 |Aug record low C = -0.6 |Sep record low C = −3.5 |Oct record low C = −8.3 |Nov record low C = −19.0 |Dec record low C = −33.0 |year record low C = −37.0 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171010154230/ftp://ftp.tor.ec.gc.ca/Pub/Normals/English/ONT/ONT_OWEN-WARR_ENG.csv | archive-date = 2017-10-10 | url-status = dead
References
References
- {{SCref. (2021)
- {{Cite cgndb. FCQER. South Baymouth
- {{Cite cgndb. FCVIK. Tehkummah
- (1944). "Eighth Census of Canada 1941 - Volume II - Population by Local Subdivisions". Dominion Bureau of Statistics.
- (July 1973). "1971 Census of Canada - Population Census Subdivisions (Historical)". Statistics Canada.
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