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Timmins is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, on the Mattagami River. The city is the fourth largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,788 (2016). The city's economy is based on natural resource extraction and is supported by industries related to logging and gold, zinc, copper, nickel and silver mining.
Timmins serves as a regional service and distribution center. The town is home to a large French-speaking community, more than 50% of whom speak French and English.
Research by archaeologists shows that human settlements in the area are at least 6,000 years old; the oldest traces found are believed to belong to nomadic people of this culture.
Up until contact with the settlers, the land belonged to the first Mattagami people. Treaty Number Nine of 1906 pushed this tribe to the north side of Mattagami Lake, on the site of the Hudson Bay trading post first established in 1794. In the 1950s, the reservation was moved to the south side of the lake, its current location.
