Hotels in Timmins, Ontario

A little about Timmins...

Timmins, with a population of 43,686 (2001), is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada on the Mattagami River. At 2,961.52 square kilometres (1,143 sq mi), 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of Wood Buffalo, Alberta was created, although it remained the largest municipality in Ontario until 2001, when it was superseded by the newly amalgamated cities of Kawartha Lakes and Greater Sudbury.

Some of the main tourist attractions within the community include the Shania Twain Centre, Timmins Underground Gold Mine Tour, The Timmins Museum and National Exhibition Centre, Cedar Meadows Wilderness Tours, Kamiskotia Snow Resort, Porcupine Ski Runners Cross-Country Trails and Chalet, Hollinger Golf Club, Spruce Needles Golf Club, the Sandy Falls Golf Club and the McIntyre Community Building. Snowmobiling has a solid impact on the Timmins economy as tourists from all over North America travel north to explore our local trails.

The city's slogan is "The City with a Heart of Gold".

Hollinger Park is one of the city's main recreational spaces, hosting both sporting facilities and outdoor concerts during the summer. Most famously, Timmins native Shania Twain played a hometown concert at Hollinger Park on July 1, 1999. An estimated 25,000 people, more than half the entire population of Timmins, were in attendance.

On the first Sunday of June of each year, Timmins holds a Multicultural Festival at the McIntyre Community Building. It reflects the unique ethnic diversity of people in Timmins. You can experience the excitement of different cultures, savour the cuisine and the ethnic costumes.

The festival brings together many different cultural groups from the City. Italian, Croatian, Polish, German, Scottish, Austrian, Finnish, Chinese, Filipino, and Native Cultures as well as many others join together to celebrate the diversity of the community. There are local groups who perform traditional music and dances; a parade displaying the different colourful ethnic costumes; and an abundance of food and ethnic art demonstrations.

There are several ethnic clubs in the area representing the various multicultural groups in Timmins including Le Centre Culturel La Ronde, the Croatian Society, the Polish White Eagle Hall, the Irish Canadian Club, the German Culture Club, the Chinese Club, the Ojibway & Cree Cultural Centre, the Timmins Multicultural Society, Porcupine Dante Club as well as many others.

The main postsecondary institution in Timmins is Northern College, a College of Applied Arts and Technology. The city also has satellite campuses of Collège Boréal and Laurentian University's Université de Hearst. Four school boards serve the City of Timmins.