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of Wood Buffalo, Alberta, was created, although it remained the largest municipality in Ontario until 2001, when it was superseded by the newly amalgamated cities of Kawartha Lakes and Greater Sudbury.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.

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.

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.

Archaeological and historical studies indicate that the first people to settle in the Timmins area were nomadic tribes such as Ojibwa and Cree dating back to 7000 BC.

On the first Sunday in June of each year, Timmins holds a Multicultural Festival at the McIntyre Community Building.

Highway 67 was the first provincial highway to provide access to Timmins from the Ferguson Highway ( Highway 11 ).

After their first three releases, they returned to Canada, where Timmins and Anton formed Cowboy Junkies with Timmins ’ siblings Margo and Pete.

In 2001, the station received CRTC approval to move to the FM dial, retaining its legendary call letters as CKGB-FM but taking on the EZ Rock brand and adult contemporary format, giving the small Timmins radio market its first direct competition, as the Haliburton Broadcasting Group-owned CHMT-FM had launched as adult contemporary / CHR hybrid Mix 93 just a few months before.

Victor M. Power, Mayor of Timmins for 17 of the 20 years from 1980 to 2000, who did not stand in the 2000 municipal election, came out of retirement and was returned against one-term incumbent and the first female mayor of Timmins Jamie Lim.

He subsequently moved to Timmins and applied for a broadcasting license ; CFCL went to air in 1952 as the first French language radio station in Ontario.

In 1998, Bellini made an autobiographical documentary, Bellini's Drive, which among other things explained his thoughts on being the second-most famous person from Timmins — the first being Shania Twain.

Before being cast in his most major role in Neighbours as Dylan Timmins, he had appeared on the show twice before, first as the character Charlie Moyes in 1996, and three years later as Liam Rigby.

Timmins Airport was first opened in 1955 following lobbying by the board of the Timmins Chamber of Commerce.

The first golden point in State of Origin was scored in the 2004 series, when Shaun Timmins kicked a field goal for NSW to win the opening match of that series 9-8.

She was Timmins ' first female mayor.

He also ran in the 1953 election against Karl Eyre in the Timmins riding, but was not elected.

In Timmins, Twain started singing at bars at the age of eight to try to make ends meet, often earning twenty dollars between midnight and one in the morning performing for remaining customers after the bar had finished serving.

In August 2009, at a conference in Timmins, Ontario, a spokesman for Twain's label said a new record from the singer is still " nowhere in sight ".

* The city of Timmins ( located in Ontario, Canada ) renamed a street for her, gave her the key to the city, and built the Shania Twain Centre in her honour.

It is the 69th largest metropolitan area in Canada, although the statistical boundaries for Timmins ' metropolitan area coincide with its municipal boundaries.

The Timmins and District Hospital is a major referral health care centre for northeastern Ontario, particularly the Cochrane District, but like all of Northern Ontario Timmins is still considered medically underserved.

Timmins Transit provides regularly scheduled local bus service and Handy-Transit for those with disabilities.

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.

Timmins has very cold winters, being in northern Ontario, but temperatures in late summer and fall tend to be among the coldest for any major city in any Canadian province, although during the spring and summer it can get very hot.

Timmins also holds Ontario's record low for September, which is.

Timmins is also a staging point for wilderness outfitters in the district that offer northern wilderness experiences, such as fishing trips, eco-adventures and Arctic excursions.

* 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

Later became a Roman Catholic priest in Timmins while continuing to play hockey for the " Flying Fathers ".

Midway through university, he took time off to work for the Timmins Daily Press.

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.

Until 1977, Timmins was used as the source for all weather readings attributed to Cochrane except for exceptional extremes.

William " Bashin ' Bill " Barilko ( born March 25, 1927 in Timmins, Ontario – died August 26, 1951 near Cochrane ), was a Canadian hockey player of Ukrainian descent who played his entire National Hockey League career for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

While riding USAir Flight 1948 with the Ottawa Senators, while talking with a flight attendant, he leaned over to Trevor Timmins ( then the Senators ' Director Of Team Services ) and said " Watch out for your bomb there " while motioning towards Timmons ' laptop computer.