Remote Northern Ontario Airports Serving Aboriginal Communities

Ontario's far north contains 29 airports operated by the Ministry of Transportation's Remote Northern Transportation Office. These airports primarily serve aboriginal communities lacking all-weather road access, spanning from the Manitoba border to Hudson's Bay and the Quebec border.

Use Cases

• Map airport locations to analyze geographic service coverage for remote aboriginal communities.
• Identify infrastructure critical for communities with no all-weather road access based on operational descriptions.
• Assess regional transportation network density using the count of 29 airports across the defined northern region.

Strengths

• Defined scope of 29 specific airport facilities.
• Clear geographic description covering Ontario's far north from the Manitoba border to Hudson's Bay and the Quebec border.
• Explicit operational context: airports serve aboriginal communities without all-weather road access, except for Pickle Lake and Armstrong.

Limitations

• No structured tabular data (e.g., coordinates, runway lengths, passenger statistics) is explicitly available; information is descriptive.
• Data is provided in document formats (DOCX, HTML, ZIP), requiring manual extraction for quantitative analysis.
• Sample data and row/column counts are unavailable, limiting immediate machine-readability.

Provenance

Source

Government of Ontario

Collection Method

Operational data from the Ministry of Transportation's Remote Northern Transportation Office.

Time Range

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Geography

Remote northern Ontario, from the Manitoba border west to Hudson's Bay north and the Quebec border east.