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Timmins, 2023

Archive of hometown notes from Timmins: local places, drinking water, taxes, and construction.

December 2023

Basement air context for Timmins

How Timmins sits in Health Canada indoor-radon survey geography.

Indoor radon figures for Timmins follow Health Canada survey geography, often at CMA or regional scale. Higher mean Bq/m³ ranks as higher risk on the board.

A home still needs its own long-term test. Use the radon page to put Timmins in national context first.

A bright spot in Timmins

Downtown Timmins is a reason people stay fond of Timmins.

December 2023 in Timmins: Downtown Timmins. BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city shows its main-street face.

Timmins Rock is the NOJHL club linked from the City's find-or-learn pages.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

City Score neighbours for Timmins

How Timmins compares with nearby cities on City Score.

Timmins's City Score blends published open-data pillars: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity.

A Rising or Dropping badge marks a multi-year rank move. The green line on the hometown chart carries the year-by-year path.

Timmins: Timmins sits along the Mattagami River in Northeastern

Timmins sits along the Mattagami River in Northeastern Ontario, and Tourism Timmins still sells the place on mineral wealth and outdoor

Hollinger Open Pit still orients Timmins. A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

November 2023

November 2023: property tax in Timmins

Published residential mill-rate context for Timmins.

Residential mill rates for Timmins appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.

Assessment bases differ by province. Read Timmins beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.

A lesser-known corner of Timmins

Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend

Walk or drive through Timmins long enough and Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre comes up. Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend hours keep it usable for residents, not only tourists.

Downtown Timmins BIA speaks for a few hundred core businesses and fills the calendar with Santa Claus Parade nights, pop-up shops, and urban park gatherings. Porcupine Health Unit keeps the older Porcupine label alive on the municipal directory. Junior hockey fans follow the Timmins Rock; Timmins Transit covers the practical rides across a big northern footprint. Come North is the tourism invitation, honest about latitude without turning the city into brochure fiction.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Hollinger Open Pit, Timmins · November 2023

A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

Hollinger Open Pit still orients Timmins. A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

Downtown Timmins BIA describes a collective of about 250 businesses in the core.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Timmins: The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, · November 2023

The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.

November 2023 in Timmins: Downtown Timmins. BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city shows its main-street face.

The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

October 2023

October 2023: building permits in Timmins

Where Timmins sits in published building-permit figures for October 2023.

Construction intent in Timmins shows up first as authorized permit dollars. Read a single month as a pulse, not a verdict.

Open the Timmins permits page and the Construction Pulse rankings for the wider board.

Hollinger Open Pit, Timmins · October 2023

A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

Hollinger Open Pit still orients Timmins. A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

Timmins Rock is the NOJHL club linked from the City's find-or-learn pages.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Why Downtown Timmins still draws people in Timmins

Downtown Timmins is a reason people stay fond of Timmins.

October 2023 in Timmins: Downtown Timmins. BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city shows its main-street face.

Downtown Timmins BIA describes a collective of about 250 businesses in the core.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Timmins: Downtown Timmins BIA speaks for a few hundred core businesses

Downtown Timmins BIA speaks for a few hundred core businesses and fills the calendar with Santa Claus Parade nights, pop-up shops, and

Walk or drive through Timmins long enough and Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre comes up. Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend hours keep it usable for residents, not only tourists.

Downtown Timmins BIA speaks for a few hundred core businesses and fills the calendar with Santa Claus Parade nights, pop-up shops, and urban park gatherings. Porcupine Health Unit keeps the older Porcupine label alive on the municipal directory. Junior hockey fans follow the Timmins Rock; Timmins Transit covers the practical rides across a big northern footprint. Come North is the tourism invitation, honest about latitude without turning the city into brochure fiction.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

October 2023: property tax in Timmins

Published residential mill-rate context for Timmins.

Residential mill rates for Timmins appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.

Assessment bases differ by province. Read Timmins beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.

September 2023

Timmins: The Daily Press front mixes ward politics with harder crime

The Daily Press front mixes ward politics with harder crime files and the occasional heritage-building reuse story, which is the tempo of a

September 2023 in Timmins: Downtown Timmins. BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city shows its main-street face.

Timmins Rock is the NOJHL club linked from the City's find-or-learn pages.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Timmins water: Timmins is a northern river-intake city: Mattagami

Timmins draws municipal drinking water from Mattagami River, treated at Timmins Water Treatment Plant.

Ask where Timmins drinking water begins and the answer is Mattagami River, then Timmins Water Treatment Plant. That supply chain is what the water atlas puts beside hardness and lead.

Surface plant drawing Mattagami River water for the City of Timmins urban system with conventional treatment and disinfection.

See the Timmins water page for the grade, source notes, and municipal report links.

Landmark: Hollinger Open Pit

A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

Hollinger Open Pit still orients Timmins. A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Timmins on the hazard board

Seismic and wildfire context that applies to Timmins.

Timmins appears on NRCan seismic context (peak ground acceleration) and, where live, wildfire-season flags. Flood grades are incomplete on some pages.

Hazard pages are comparative geography, not insurance certificates. Pair them with provincial emergency bulletins when weather turns.

August 2023

Still finding Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre

Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend

Walk or drive through Timmins long enough and Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre comes up. Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend hours keep it usable for residents, not only tourists.

Downtown Timmins BIA speaks for a few hundred core businesses and fills the calendar with Santa Claus Parade nights, pop-up shops, and urban park gatherings. Porcupine Health Unit keeps the older Porcupine label alive on the municipal directory. Junior hockey fans follow the Timmins Rock; Timmins Transit covers the practical rides across a big northern footprint. Come North is the tourism invitation, honest about latitude without turning the city into brochure fiction.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Timmins broadband availability

Advertised broadband availability for Timmins.

Broadband rows for Timmins come from ISED National Broadband Data: advertised max download, 50/10 availability, and technology flags where published.

A map hex is not a living-room speed test. Confirm with your ISP after reading the Timmins internet page.

Downtown Timmins still surprises

The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.

August 2023 in Timmins: Downtown Timmins. BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city shows its main-street face.

The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Timmins on the radon map

How Timmins sits in Health Canada indoor-radon survey geography.

Indoor radon figures for Timmins follow Health Canada survey geography, often at CMA or regional scale. Higher mean Bq/m³ ranks as higher risk on the board.

A home still needs its own long-term test. Use the radon page to put Timmins in national context first.

July 2023

Why Hollinger Open Pit still draws people in Timmins

Hollinger Open Pit is a reason people stay fond of Timmins.

Hollinger Open Pit still orients Timmins. A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

Timmins Rock is the NOJHL club linked from the City's find-or-learn pages.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

How Timmins compares nearby

How Timmins compares with nearby cities on City Score.

Timmins's City Score blends published open-data pillars: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity.

A Rising or Dropping badge marks a multi-year rank move. The green line on the hometown chart carries the year-by-year path.

Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre in Timmins

Downtown Timmins BIA speaks for a few hundred core businesses and fills the calendar with Santa Claus Parade nights, pop-up shops, and

Walk or drive through Timmins long enough and Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre comes up. Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend hours keep it usable for residents, not only tourists.

Downtown Timmins BIA speaks for a few hundred core businesses and fills the calendar with Santa Claus Parade nights, pop-up shops, and urban park gatherings. Porcupine Health Unit keeps the older Porcupine label alive on the municipal directory. Junior hockey fans follow the Timmins Rock; Timmins Transit covers the practical rides across a big northern footprint. Come North is the tourism invitation, honest about latitude without turning the city into brochure fiction.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

July 2023: property tax in Timmins

Published residential mill-rate context for Timmins.

Residential mill rates for Timmins appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.

Assessment bases differ by province. Read Timmins beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.

Timmins: Timmins Rock is the NOJHL club linked from the City's find-or-learn

BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city

July 2023 in Timmins: Downtown Timmins. BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city shows its main-street face.

Timmins Rock is the NOJHL club linked from the City's find-or-learn pages.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

June 2023

A named place in Timmins

Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend

Walk or drive through Timmins long enough and Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre comes up. Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend hours keep it usable for residents, not only tourists.

Downtown Timmins BIA speaks for a few hundred core businesses and fills the calendar with Santa Claus Parade nights, pop-up shops, and urban park gatherings. Porcupine Health Unit keeps the older Porcupine label alive on the municipal directory. Junior hockey fans follow the Timmins Rock; Timmins Transit covers the practical rides across a big northern footprint. Come North is the tourism invitation, honest about latitude without turning the city into brochure fiction.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

What still surprises about Timmins

The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.

Hollinger Open Pit still orients Timmins. A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

June 2023: building permits in Timmins

Where Timmins sits in published building-permit figures for June 2023.

Construction intent in Timmins shows up first as authorized permit dollars. Read a single month as a pulse, not a verdict.

Open the Timmins permits page and the Construction Pulse rankings for the wider board.

Landmark: Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre

Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend

Walk or drive through Timmins long enough and Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre comes up. Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend hours keep it usable for residents, not only tourists.

Downtown Timmins BIA speaks for a few hundred core businesses and fills the calendar with Santa Claus Parade nights, pop-up shops, and urban park gatherings. Porcupine Health Unit keeps the older Porcupine label alive on the municipal directory. Junior hockey fans follow the Timmins Rock; Timmins Transit covers the practical rides across a big northern footprint. Come North is the tourism invitation, honest about latitude without turning the city into brochure fiction.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

May 2023

Hollinger Open Pit keeps Timmins lively

Hollinger Open Pit is a reason people stay fond of Timmins.

Hollinger Open Pit still orients Timmins. A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

Downtown Timmins BIA describes a collective of about 250 businesses in the core.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Worth knowing in Timmins: The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page,

The Daily Press front mixes ward politics with harder crime files and the occasional heritage-building reuse story, which is the tempo of a

May 2023 in Timmins: Downtown Timmins. BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city shows its main-street face.

The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

May 2023: property tax in Timmins

Published residential mill-rate context for Timmins.

Residential mill rates for Timmins appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.

Assessment bases differ by province. Read Timmins beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.

Worth knowing in Timmins: Timmins Rock is the NOJHL club linked from the City's find-or-learn

Timmins sits along the Mattagami River in Northeastern Ontario, and Tourism Timmins still sells the place on mineral wealth and outdoor

Hollinger Open Pit still orients Timmins. A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

Timmins Rock is the NOJHL club linked from the City's find-or-learn pages.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Timmins water via Timmins Water Treatment Plant

Timmins draws municipal drinking water from Mattagami River, treated at Timmins Water Treatment Plant.

May 2023 is a good week to revisit Timmins's source: Mattagami River. Treatment at Timmins Water Treatment Plant sits between the intake and the tap.

Surface plant drawing Mattagami River water for the City of Timmins urban system with conventional treatment and disinfection.

See the Timmins water page for the grade, source notes, and municipal report links.

April 2023

Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre, Timmins

Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend

Walk or drive through Timmins long enough and Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre comes up. Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend hours keep it usable for residents, not only tourists.

Downtown Timmins BIA speaks for a few hundred core businesses and fills the calendar with Santa Claus Parade nights, pop-up shops, and urban park gatherings. Porcupine Health Unit keeps the older Porcupine label alive on the municipal directory. Junior hockey fans follow the Timmins Rock; Timmins Transit covers the practical rides across a big northern footprint. Come North is the tourism invitation, honest about latitude without turning the city into brochure fiction.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Natural hazards near Timmins

Seismic and wildfire context that applies to Timmins.

Timmins appears on NRCan seismic context (peak ground acceleration) and, where live, wildfire-season flags. Flood grades are incomplete on some pages.

Hazard pages are comparative geography, not insurance certificates. Pair them with provincial emergency bulletins when weather turns.

Still finding Downtown Timmins

BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city

April 2023 in Timmins: Downtown Timmins. BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city shows its main-street face.

Timmins Rock is the NOJHL club linked from the City's find-or-learn pages.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Internet coverage in Timmins

Advertised broadband availability for Timmins.

Broadband rows for Timmins come from ISED National Broadband Data: advertised max download, 50/10 availability, and technology flags where published.

A map hex is not a living-room speed test. Confirm with your ISP after reading the Timmins internet page.

March 2023

Hollinger Open Pit still surprises

The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.

Hollinger Open Pit still orients Timmins. A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Indoor radon around Timmins

How Timmins sits in Health Canada indoor-radon survey geography.

Indoor radon figures for Timmins follow Health Canada survey geography, often at CMA or regional scale. Higher mean Bq/m³ ranks as higher risk on the board.

A home still needs its own long-term test. Use the radon page to put Timmins in national context first.

Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre keeps Timmins lively

Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre is a reason people stay fond of Timmins.

Walk or drive through Timmins long enough and Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre comes up. Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend hours keep it usable for residents, not only tourists.

Downtown Timmins BIA speaks for a few hundred core businesses and fills the calendar with Santa Claus Parade nights, pop-up shops, and urban park gatherings. Porcupine Health Unit keeps the older Porcupine label alive on the municipal directory. Junior hockey fans follow the Timmins Rock; Timmins Transit covers the practical rides across a big northern footprint. Come North is the tourism invitation, honest about latitude without turning the city into brochure fiction.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Timmins beside its neighbours

How Timmins compares with nearby cities on City Score.

Timmins's City Score blends published open-data pillars: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity.

A Rising or Dropping badge marks a multi-year rank move. The green line on the hometown chart carries the year-by-year path.

February 2023

Downtown Timmins in Timmins

The Daily Press front mixes ward politics with harder crime files and the occasional heritage-building reuse story, which is the tempo of a

February 2023 in Timmins: Downtown Timmins. BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city shows its main-street face.

The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

February 2023: property tax in Timmins

Published residential mill-rate context for Timmins.

Residential mill rates for Timmins appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.

Assessment bases differ by province. Read Timmins beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.

Hollinger Open Pit, Timmins

A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

Hollinger Open Pit still orients Timmins. A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

Timmins Rock is the NOJHL club linked from the City's find-or-learn pages.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Downtown Timmins, Timmins

BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city

February 2023 in Timmins: Downtown Timmins. BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city shows its main-street face.

Downtown Timmins BIA describes a collective of about 250 businesses in the core.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

January 2023

Timmins: The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page,

The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.

Walk or drive through Timmins long enough and Timmins Museum: National Exhibition Centre comes up. Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend hours keep it usable for residents, not only tourists.

Downtown Timmins BIA speaks for a few hundred core businesses and fills the calendar with Santa Claus Parade nights, pop-up shops, and urban park gatherings. Porcupine Health Unit keeps the older Porcupine label alive on the municipal directory. Junior hockey fans follow the Timmins Rock; Timmins Transit covers the practical rides across a big northern footprint. Come North is the tourism invitation, honest about latitude without turning the city into brochure fiction.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

January 2023: building permits in Timmins

Where Timmins sits in published building-permit figures for January 2023.

Building-permit value for Timmins comes from Statistics Canada when a direct-tier row exists. Quiet months often follow busy ones.

Open the Timmins permits page and the Construction Pulse rankings for the wider board.

Downtown Timmins keeps Timmins lively

Downtown Timmins is a reason people stay fond of Timmins.

January 2023 in Timmins: Downtown Timmins. BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city shows its main-street face.

Timmins Rock is the NOJHL club linked from the City's find-or-learn pages.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.

Timmins and Mattagami River

Timmins draws municipal drinking water from Mattagami River, treated at Timmins Water Treatment Plant.

Ask where Timmins drinking water begins and the answer is Mattagami River, then Timmins Water Treatment Plant. That supply chain is what the water atlas puts beside hardness and lead.

Surface plant drawing Mattagami River water for the City of Timmins urban system with conventional treatment and disinfection.

See the Timmins water page for the grade, source notes, and municipal report links.

Hollinger Open Pit in Timmins

Timmins sits along the Mattagami River in Northeastern Ontario, and Tourism Timmins still sells the place on mineral wealth and outdoor

Hollinger Open Pit still orients Timmins. A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.

The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.

More on Timmins: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.