Provincially and federally, the city is located in the Timmins — James Bay electoral district.

The new riding of Timmins — Chapleau was represented by Roy's Liberal successor Ray Chénier from 1979 to 1984 and then Aurèle Gervais, a former mayor of Iroquois Falls, who was swept in to office as a PC in the Mulroney landslide of September 1984.

* Charlie Angus, musician and songwriter for the band Grievous Angels, now serving as the New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Timmins — James Bay

* Gilles Bisson, Ontario New Democratic Party Member of Provincial Parliament for Timmins — James Bay

In the House of Commons of Canada, the district is divided between Nipissing — Timiskaming, represented by Jay Aspin, in the south, and Timmins — James Bay, represented by Charlie Angus, in the north.

It expanded through the acquisition of non-metropolitan cable systems in Canada through the 1990s — notably Northern Cable in 1998, which gave the company two of the largest markets, Sudbury and Timmins, that it ever served as an independent company — and changed its corporate name to Persona in 2001.

Bélair is a former Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons, representing the riding of Timmins — James Bay from 1997 to 2004 and Cochrane — Superior from 1988 to 1997.

In the 2004 federal election, electoral redistribution put Bélair's home area of Kapuskasing outside of Timmins — James Bay and into the newly named riding of Algoma — Manitoulin — Kapuskasing, an extension of the Algoma — Manitoulin riding held by Liberal Brent St. Denis.

The neighbouring ridings are Abitibi — Baie-James — Nunavik — Eeyou, Pontiac, Renfrew — Nipissing — Pembroke, Nipissing — Timiskaming, and Timmins — James Bay.

: For the provincial electoral district, see Timmins — James Bay ( provincial electoral district ).

Timmins — James Bay is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997.

Timmins — James Bay consists of

Timmins is evolving into a regional governmental, transportation, industrial, commercial medical, and recreational centre for much of Northeastern Ontario and the James Bay coast line, Nishnawbe Aski Nation.

71. 7 % of the population of the riding came from Algoma — Manitoulin, and 28. 3 % from Timmins — James Bay.

Whereas urban districts, such as Toronto Centre, Vancouver Quadra or Notre-Dame-de-Grâce — Lachine, may be as small as 50 km < sup > 2 </ sup > or less, more rural districts, such as Timmins — James Bay, Abitibi — Baie-James — Nunavik — Eeyou or Desnethé — Missinippi — Churchill River may encompass tens or hundreds of thousands of square kilometres in size.

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Angus entered electoral politics in 2004 as the successful New Democratic Party candidate in the Ontario riding of Timmins — James Bay.

In 2004, Angus sought and won the NDP nomination in Timmins — James Bay, and won election to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2004 federal election by less than 600 votes.

Gilles Bisson ( born May 14, 1957 ) is a Franco-Ontarian Canadian politician who has represented the northern riding of Timmins — James Bay in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario since 1990.

Bisson's popularity has helped make Timmins — James Bay one of the top ridings in Ontario for the federal NDP as well, helping Charlie Angus pick up the seat in the 2004 election.

The band's primary member was singer-songwriter Charlie Angus, who entered electoral politics in 2004 as the New Democratic Party Member of Parliament for Timmins — James Bay.

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Wood ran again for the federal NDP in the 2000 election in Timmins — James Bay, but lost to Bélair by 6, 950 votes.

* Federally, Moose Factory is part of the Timmins — James Bay electoral district.

The neighbouring ridings are Timmins — James Bay, Nunavut, Labrador, Manicouagan, Chicoutimi — Le Fjord, Roberval — Lac-Saint-Jean, Saint-Maurice — Champlain, Pontiac, and Abitibi — Témiscamingue.

The electoral district was abolished in 1996 when it was redistributed between Algoma, Kenora — Rainy River, Thunder Bay — Nipigon, Timiskaming — Cochrane and Timmins — James Bay ridings.

The francophone population is concentrated in Eastern Ontario, in Ottawa, Cornwall and many rural farming communities, and in Northeastern Ontario, in the cities of Sudbury, North Bay and Timmins and a number of smaller towns.

On July 21, 2007, he fought Christopher Daniels in Timmins, Ontario, defeating him via the Superkick and in his hometown of North Bay, Ontario on August 11, 2007, he defeated Robert Roode with the same move.

Mid-Canada Television, or MCTV, was created in 1980 when Cambrian Broadcasting, which owned the CTV affiliates in Sudbury, North Bay and Timmins, merged with J. Conrad Lavigne's CBC affiliates in the same cities to create Mid-Canada Communications.

Marie, North Bay and Timmins began to call for a boycott of MCTV news, and local companies began offering web-based sources of local news, weather and sports information.

The Mattagami flows from its source at Mattagami Lake in geographic Gouin Township in the Unorganized North Part of Sudbury District, on the Canadian Shield southwest of Timmins, to Portage Island in geographic Gardiner Township in the Unorganized North Part of Cochrane District, in the Hudson Bay Lowlands.

In 1980, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the merger of the two stations, along with their co-owned stations in North Bay and Timmins, into the MCTV twinstick.

Unlike CKSO and CKNY in North Bay, which were established in the 1950s as CBC affiliates and then reaffiliated with CTV in 1971 when J. Conrad Lavigne established new CBC stations in those markets, in Timmins Lavigne's existing station CFCL retained its CBC affiliation and CTV service was provided by a rebroadcast transmitter of CKSO.

Her parents divorced when she was two and her mother then moved to Timmins, Ontario with Eilleen and her sisters Jill and Carrie Ann.

While attending Timmins High and Vocational School in Timmins, she was also the singer for a local band called " Longshot " which covered Top 40 music.

After graduating from Timmins High in June 1983, Twain was eager to expand her musical horizons.

His funeral was attended by Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, the then president of Sinn Féin, Michael O ' Riordan of the Communist Party of Ireland, Bernadette McAliskey and local Wicklow TDs Liam Kavanagh ( Labour ), Ciarán Murphy ( Fianna Fáil ) and Godfrey Timmins ( Fine Gael ).

At the time of the Canada 2011 Census, Timmins ' population was 43, 165.

At, Timmins was Canada's largest municipality in land area until 1995, when the regional municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, was created, although it remained the largest municipality in Ontario until 2001, when it was superseded by the newly amalgamated cities of Kawartha Lakes and Greater Sudbury.

Timmins was a company town founded in 1912.

The Town of Timmins was founded by Noah Timmins in 1912 following gold discoveries in the Porcupine Camp.

Shortly after Timmins was founded it experienced its first general mine strike in November, 1912.

Tom was living in Timmins and this was one of the first songs he wrote.

He was sworn in on December 8, 2006, succeeding Vic Power, the city's longest-serving mayor ( who served for a total of 19 years non-consecutively ) in the Timmins City Council.

It was represented by former Timmins mayor Karl Eyre from 1949 to 1957, as a Liberal member in the House of Commons.

In 1957, Murdo Martin, a Timmins fire fighter was elected under the CCF banner.

Trudeaumania swept through Timmins as well, and Martin was defeated by Timmins businessman Jean Roy, who held the Timmins riding from 1968 to 1979.

Iroquois Falls lawyer Bill Grummett held the riding for the CCF from 1943 to 1955, when he was defeated by Timmins mayor Wilf Spooner.

He was a reporter in the Ontario communities of Timmins and Kirkland Lake, before joining the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a freelance journalist.