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{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{For|homonymy|Iroquois (disambiguation){{!}}Iroquois}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=JulyOctober 20132023}}
{{Infobox settlement
|name = Iroquois Falls
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|government_type = Town
|leader_title = Mayor
|leader_name = PatTory BrittonDelaurier
|leader_title1 =
|leader_name1 =
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The town centre lies 11 km east of [[Ontario Highway 11|Hwy 11]] on the banks of the [[Abitibi River]], west of [[Lake Abitibi]]. [[Timmins]], one of the largest cities in northern Ontario, is approximately {{convert|70|km|mi}} to the southwest. The following communities are also within the municipal boundaries: '''Monteith''', '''Nellie Lake''', and '''Porquis Junction'''.
 
Iroquois Falls' primary industry was a large mill producing newsprint and commercial printing papers. In December 2014, the owner, [[Resolute Forest Products]], announced its permanent closure.<ref name="MG">{{cite web | title = Resolute Forest to Shut Two Quebec Mills, One in Ontario | publisherwork = Montreal Gazette | date = 5 December 2014 | url = https://montrealgazette.com/business/local-business/resolute-forest-to-shut-two-quebec-mills-one-in-ontario}}</ref><ref name="Labine">{{cite web | last = Labine | first = Jeff | title = Mill Closing in Iroquois Falls | publisher = Timmins Press | date = 5 December 2014 | url = http://www.timminspress.com/2014/12/05/mill-closing-in-iroquois-falls}}</ref> There are also three hydro-electric dams nearby. The [[Monteith Correctional Complex]], a provincial prison serving a regional catchment area, is located in the community of Monteith (named for [[Samuel Nelson Monteith]]).
 
==History==
The background of the town's name varies depending on the source, attributing it to invasions by the [[Iroquois]] on [[Wyandot people|Huron]] or [[Ojibway]] villages. It is also unclear who has relayed the tale, settlers or the [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] people themselves.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://museumsnorth.org/iroquois_falls/history.html |title=Iroquois Falls: History & Legend |access-date=28 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928004439/http://museumsnorth.org/iroquois_falls/history.html |archive-date=28 September 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[File:Frank Harris Anson.jpg|thumb|left|100px|Frank Harris Anson]]
[[File:Iroquois Hotel - Iroquois Falls, Ontario, Canada.jpg|thumb|left|Iroquois Hotel, 1916]]
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The town's avant-garde style earned it the nickname "Anson's Folly".<ref name="Abel" />
 
The town was incorporated in 1915, and a board of trade was chartered in 1926.{{factcitation needed|date=August 2021}}
 
The paper mill created a dramatic change to the area, and people migrated to the community for work.{{factcitation needed|date=August 2021}}
 
The creation of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway (now [[Ontario Northland Railway]]) greatly boosted the economy as there were few roads at the time.{{factcitation needed|date=August 2021}}
 
As Iroquois Falls grew, two new communities within the town began to emerge. An area known first as "The Wye" (because the rail tracks split at this point) grew to the south, and was at first a ramshackle collection of cabins and shacks. It later became known as Ansonville, and was home to a number of business people and others who were shut out from the company town. In contrast to Iroquois Falls, Ansonville had little town planning, and no water, sewer, or electrical service. Insurance companies would not insure homes there because the risk of fire was too great, and the first residents were French-Canadians, Russians and Ukrainians. Animosity was frequent between Ansonville and Iroquois Falls, and many residents of Iroquois Falls condemned Ansonville "as a dark den of foreigners engaged in regular street brawls, illegal alcohol consumption, and other unsavoury activities"<ref name="Abel"/>{{rp|85}}
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The paper mill, then called Abitibi-Price, merged with Stone-Consolidated, and then with Donohue Forest Products, and finally with Bowater to create Abitibi-Bowater. On 17 April 2009, Abitibi-Bowater sought bankruptcy protection, emerging from it as Resolute Forest Products.
 
A tragic event occurred in 1984 at the coffee shop at Joe's Texaco in nearby PorquoisPorquis Junction. Ontario Provincial Police constable Vern Miller was drinking coffee with his partner constable Norm Tiegen, when 23-year-old Gregg Prevost of Iroquois Falls entered and shot Miller with a shotgun, killing him instantly. The community was shocked and outraged, and Prevost was sentenced to life in prison. The town of [[Black River-Matheson|Matheson]] renamed their local arena the Vern Miller Memorial Arena in his honour.<ref>{{cite web | last = Grech | first = Ron | title = Cop killer seeks return home | publisher = The Daily Press (Timmins) | date = 10 JanJanuary 2013 | url = http://www.timminspress.com/2013/01/10/cop-killer-seeks-return-home}}</ref>
 
==Geography==
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|Dec rain mm = 5.6
|year rain mm = 561.2
|snow colour = green
|Jan snow cm = 46.7
|Feb snow cm = 27.6
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|Dec rain days = 0.93
|year rain days = 97.9
|unit snow days = 0.2 &nbsp;cm
|Jan snow days = 11.9
|Feb snow days = 8.6
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|Jun snow days = 0.04
|Jul snow days = 0.04
|Aug snow days = 0.0
|Sep snow days = 0.11
|Oct snow days = 2.6
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| title = Iroquois Falls, Ontario
| work = Canadian Climate Normals 1971–2000
| date = 19 January 2011
| publisher = Environment Canada
| language = en, fr
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}}
 
== Demographics ==
{{Canada census▼
|2016_population=4,537 | 2016_pop_delta=-1.3 | 2016_land_area=600.01 | 2016_pop_density=7.6▼
|2016_median_age=49.6 | 2016_median_age_m=48.5 | 2016_median_age_f=51.0▼
|2016_total_pvt_dwell=2,245 | 2016_mean_hh_income=64,400 | 2016_access_date=2019-06-10▼
|2011_population=4,595 | 2011_pop_delta=-2.8 | 2011_land_area=599.92 | 2011_pop_density=7.7▼
|2011_median_age= | 2011_median_age_m= | 2011_median_age_f=▼
|2011_total_pvt_dwell=2,192 | 2011_mean_hh_income= | 2011_access_date=2012-02-17▼
|2006_population=4,729 | 2006_pop_delta=-9.4 | 2006_land_area=599.43 | 2006_pop_density=7.9▼
|2006_median_age=46.3 | 2006_median_age_m=45.7 | 2006_median_age_f=46.9▼
|2006_total_pvt_dwell=2,223 | 2006_mean_hh_income=56,160 | 2006_access_date=2012-02-17▼
|2001_population=5,217 | 2001_pop_delta=-8.7 | 2001_land_area=599.42 | 2001_pop_density=8.7▼
|2001_median_age=41.3 | 2001_median_age_m=40.7 | 2001_median_age_f=41.9▼
|2001_total_pvt_dwell=2,359 | 2001_mean_hh_income=44,570 | 2001_access_date=2012-02-17▼
}}▼
 
{{Historical populations
|title = Historical populations
|type = Canada
|align = centreright
|width =
|state =
|shading =
|percentages =
|footnote = <ref>[http://www66.statcan.gc.ca/eng/acyb_c1932-eng.aspx?opt=/eng/1932/193201450107_p. 107.pdf], Canada Year Book 1932</ref><ref>[http://www66.statcan.gc.ca/eng/acyb_c1955-eng.aspx?opt=/eng/1955/195501690143_p. 143.pdf], Canada Year Book 1955</ref><ref>[http://www66.statcan.gc.ca/eng/acyb_c1967-eng.aspx?opt=/eng/1967/196702230191_p. 191.pdf], Canada Year Book 1967</ref> Population figures reflect the town's 1979 amalgamation.
|1921|1,178
|1931|1,476
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|[[Canada 2011 Census|2011]]|4,595
|[[Canada 2016 Census|2016]]|4,537
▲}}
 
In the [[2021 Canadian census|2021 Census of Population]] conducted by [[Statistics Canada]], Iroquois Falls had a population of {{val|4418|fmt=commas}} living in {{val|1977|fmt=commas}} of its {{val|2153|fmt=commas}} total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:4418-4537}}|4537|1}} from its 2016 population of {{val|4537|fmt=commas}}. With a land area of {{convert|599.03|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|4418|599.03|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.<ref name=2021census>{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000203&geocode=A000235 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions (municipalities), Ontario | publisher=[[Statistics Canada]] | date=9 February 2022 | accessdate=30 March 2022}}</ref>
▲{{Canada census
|location = Iroquois Falls
|2021_population=4,418 | 2021_pop_delta=-2.6 | 2021_land_area=599.03 | 2021_pop_density=7.4
|2021_median_age=48.0 | 2021_median_age_m=45.2 | 2021_median_age_f=49.6
|2021_total_pvt_dwell=2,153 |2021_occ_pvt_dwell=1,977 |2021_mean_hh_income=75,000
|2021_geocode=2021A00053556031 | 2021_access_date=2023-10-19
▲ |2016_population=4,537 | 2016_pop_delta=-1.3 | 2016_land_area=600.01 | 2016_pop_density=7.6
▲ |2016_median_age=49.6 | 2016_median_age_m=48.5 | 2016_median_age_f=51.0
▲ |2016_total_pvt_dwell=2,245 | 2016_mean_hh_income=64,400 | 2016_access_date=2019-06-10
▲ |2011_population=4,595 | 2011_pop_delta=-2.8 | 2011_land_area=599.92 | 2011_pop_density=7.7
▲ |2011_median_age= | 2011_median_age_m= | 2011_median_age_f=
▲ |2011_total_pvt_dwell=2,192 | 2011_mean_hh_income= | 2011_access_date=2012-02-17
▲ |2006_population=4,729 | 2006_pop_delta=-9.4 | 2006_land_area=599.43 | 2006_pop_density=7.9
▲ |2006_median_age=46.3 | 2006_median_age_m=45.7 | 2006_median_age_f=46.9
▲ |2006_total_pvt_dwell=2,223 | 2006_mean_hh_income=56,160 | 2006_access_date=2012-02-17
▲ |2001_population=5,217 | 2001_pop_delta=-8.7 | 2001_land_area=599.42 | 2001_pop_density=8.7
▲ |2001_median_age=41.3 | 2001_median_age_m=40.7 | 2001_median_age_f=41.9
▲ |2001_total_pvt_dwell=2,359 | 2001_mean_hh_income=44,570 | 2001_access_date=2012-02-17
}}
 
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Resolute Forest Products announced the permanent closure of its mill in Iroquois Falls on 5 December 2014, eliminating 180 jobs. Mayor Michael Shea commented: "it's going to affect every village in Northern Ontario."<ref name="Labine"/>
 
In 2015, the Town of Iroquois Falls entered into an agreement with Resolute Forest Products, and Riverside Developments, regarding redeveloping the former mill site into a multi-use industrial facility, commercial-industrial park, or possibly a greenhouse complex.<ref>{{cite web | last = Ross | first = Ian | title = "New day" for idled Iroquois Falls paper mill | publisher = Northern Ontario Business | date = 25 January 2016 | url = https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/industry-news/forestry/new-day-for-idled-iroquois-falls-paper-mill-371746}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last = Hale | first = Alan S. | title = Iroquois Falls Releases Heavily Redacted Purchase Agreement for Mill Site Redevelopment | publisher = Timmins Press | date = 19 May 2016 | url = http://www.timminspress.com/2016/05/19/iroquois-falls-releases-heavily-redacted-purchase-agreement-for-mill-site-redevelopment | access-date = 31 October 2016 | archive-date = 1 November 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161101102043/http://www.timminspress.com/2016/05/19/iroquois-falls-releases-heavily-redacted-purchase-agreement-for-mill-site-redevelopment | url-status = dead }}</ref>
 
==Sports and recreation==
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===Jus Jordan Arena===
{{unreferenced section|date=September 2017}}
The Jus Jordan Arena arena and curling rinks were completed in 1955,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.iroquoisfalls.com/jus-jordan-arena-iroquois-falls-sports-complex | title=Jus Jordan Arena & Iroquois Falls Sports Complex }}</ref> entirely through the volunteer effort of townspeople.
 
There areis a Hockey rink with a full surrounding of seats, a Curling rink with five rinksplaying surfaces, a cafeteria and a licensed lounge. A pool was added in 1979, and the complex was renovated in 2007.
 
The Iroquois Falls Curling Club is located at the arena.
 
The arena is currently home to the [[Cochrane Crunch|Iroquois Falls Storm]] and was formerly home to the [[Abitibi Eskimos]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hockeydb.com/stte/abitibi-eskimos-4570.html|title=Abitibi Eskimos hockey team [NOJHL] statistics and thehistory at hockeydb.com|website=hockeydb.com|accessdate=14 April 2023}}</ref> [[Timmins Rock|Iroquois Falls JuniorJr. Eskis]] and [[Hearst Lumberjacks|Iroquois Falls Eskis]] of the [[Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League]].
 
===Annual events===
Each summer brings the "Search for Moby Pike" fishing derby on [[Lake Abitibi]].
 
'MusicMusicMusic' iswas an annual live event on the second weekend of August, and featuresfeatured local musicians
raising funds for community charities.
 
The Porquis Blues Festival, later renamed the Porquis Music Festival, was an occursannual annuallyfestival in Porquis Junction, a small community south-west of Iroquois Falls. The last festival was in 2022.
 
==Education==
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==Notable people==
*[[Caitlin Romain]], professional curler. ▼
* [[Henry Abramson]], dean at Lander College of Arts and Science, Touro College, New York.
* [[Paul Gagné]], professional hockey player.
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* [[Yvan Patry]], Québécois documentary filmmaker.
* [[Gerry Rioux]], professional hockey player.
▲* [[Caitlin Romain]], professional curler.
 
==In popular culture==
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not very far from the papermill.
There lives a girl I'm thinkin' of,
May, the millwright's daughter, the girl I really love.<ref>{{cite web | title = May, The Millwright's Daughter | publisher = Lyrics Feast | url = http://lyricsfeast.com/song-may-the-millwright-s-daughter-lyrics-stompin-tom-connors.html | access-date = January 13, January 2014}}</ref></poem></blockquote>
 
==See also==
* [[List of francophone communities in ontario|List of francophone communities in Ontario]]
* [[Iroquois Falls Airport]]
* [[Convoy OB 318]] - Operation Primrose
* [[Enigma machine]]
* [[Fritz-Julius Lemp]]
* [[German submarine U-110 (1940)]]
* [[HMS Bulldog (H91)]]
* [[Joe Baker-Cresswell]]
* [[Kurzsignale]]
 
== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
*{{official [website|http://www.iroquoisfalls.com Town of Iroquois Falls]}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130519123415/http://www.iroquoisfallschamber.com/web-content/ Iroquois Falls Chamber of Commerce]
 
{{Geographic location
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