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Elliot Lake summary
Elliot Lake (2006 population 11,549) is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada, north of Lake Huron in the Algoma District, midway between
the cities of Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie.
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The city was established as a planned community for the mining industry in 1955 after the discovery of uranium in the area, and named after
the small lake on its northern edge. Geologist Franc Joubin and American financier Joseph Hirshhorn were instrumental in its founding. The
principal mining companies were Denison Mines and Rio Algom. The population has varied with several boom-and-bust cycles from the 1950s to
the 1990s, from a high of over 26,000 to a low of about 6,600. In 1959, the United States declared that it would buy no more Uranium from
Canada after 1962. During the 1970s, federal plans for CANDU Reactors and Ontario Hydro's interest in atomic energy led the town, anticipating
a population of 30,000, to expand again. However, by the early 1990s, depleted reserves and low prices caused the last mines in the area to
close. In the years since, the city looked elsewhere for its survival, finding some success promoting itself as a retirement community and
tourist destination. REMAX MLS real estate
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Relatively isolated, Elliot Lake is only connected to the south by Highway 108, a 30 km distance to Highway 17(also known as the Trans-Canada
Highway). Elliot Lake Municipal Airport has no regularly scheduled flights.
Situated on the Canadian Shield, the city is surrounded by dense forest, muskeg swamps, numerous lakes, winding rivers, and hills of Precambrian
bedrock. The local forests are mixed deciduous and coniferous, with colourful displays in the autumn.
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Local wildlife include moose, white-tailed Deer, American Black Bear, beaver, loon, muskrat, otter, Canada Goose, and lynx, to name but a few.
Fish species include lake trout, speckled trout, rainbow trout, smallmouth bass, pickerel (walleye), and sturgeon.
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