Aweres, Ontario

Heyden along highway 17

Aweres is a local services board in the Canadian province of Ontario. Located in the Algoma District, it encompasses and provides services to most of the geographic township of Aweres, including the communities of Island Lake and Heyden.^[1]

The area northwest of Heyden is administered by the separate local services board of Peace Tree.^[1]

Heyden

Heyden (46°38′30″N 84°18′30″W / 46.64167°N 84.30833°W / 46.64167; -84.30833) is located about 14 km (8.7 mi) north of Sault Ste. Marie at the intersection of Highway 17 and Highway 556. The area is best known as a recreational resort, with skiing, snowmobile and all-terrain vehicle trails maintained by the Sault Trailblazers. There are many small lakes in Heyden, including Heyden Lake, Upper and Lower Island Lake, Redrock Lake, Finn Lake and Trout Lake, which are popular cottage country areas.

Heyden has one elementary school, Aweres Public School, which opened in 1963. The school is a medium-sized (2,407 square metres or 25,910 square feet), single storey building and it serves students from both Heyden and Searchmont. The school also has three baseball fields, a soccer field, a basketball court and an outdoor ice rink that is regularly maintained in the winter time. The town has a confectionery store at the Rupert acres mall that also sells pizza.

Island Lake

Main article: Island Lake, Algoma District

References

1 2 Local Services Boards, R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 737. Canadian Legal Information Institute.

Algoma District, Ontario

Cities	Elliot Lake Sault Ste. Marie

Towns	Blind River Bruce Mines Spanish Thessalon

Townships	Dubreuilville Hilton Hornepayne Huron Shores Jocelyn Johnson Laird Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional The North Shore Plummer Additional Prince St. Joseph Tarbutt and Tarbutt Additional Wawa White River

Villages	Hilton Beach

First Nations	Batchewana Garden River Hornepayne Michipicoten Missanabie Mississauga Sagamok Serpent River Thessalon

Indian reserves	Chapleau 61 Garden River 14 Goulais Bay 15A Goulais Bay 15C Gros Cap 49 Gros Cap Village 49A Missanabie 62 Mississagi River 8 Obadjiwan 15E Rankin Location 15D Sagamok Serpent River 7 Thessalon 12 Whitefish Island

Local services boards	Aweres Batchawana Bay Goulais and District Hawk Junction Missanabie Peace Tree Searchmont Wharncliffe and Kynoch

Unorganized areas	North South East

See also: Communities in Algoma District Census divisions of Ontario

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