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Manitowaning is the oldest community of European settlement on Manitoulin Island and one of the oldest in Northern Ontario.

In 1836, the community was the namesake for the Manitowaning Experiment, a socializing project undertaken by the government of the day (Upper Canada) with the support of the Anglican church. The concept was to invent the community as a model town, complete with all of the trades common to settlements further south, and to Great Britain. Thus, a cooper’s (barrel maker’s) shop was set up, as was a blacksmith’s shoemaker’s, carpenter’s and so on with the notion that the First Nations people could learn about and master these trappings of European modernity.

This outreach was accompanied by a good dose of Christian evangelism, provided by the Anglican church, and in fact the local St. Paul’s Anglican Church was raised in this period with construction beginning in 1845. (It is the oldest church in Northern Ontario.)

Across Manitowaning Bay, however, at present-day Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory, Jesuit priests were also ministering to the First Nations people of the community and their message apparently was the more popular one as the population of the model town diminished with corresponding growth at Wiikwemikoong and by the early 1850s, The Manitowaning Experiment was put on the shelf.

Today, Manitowaning remains a pleasant community on Manitowaning Bay.

Year-round recreation is provided by the Rainbow Ridge Golf Course, a championship 18 course with a spacious clubhouse and adjacent driving range and, sharing the same parking lot, the Assiginack Curling Club. The golf course is owned and operated by nearby Wiikwemikoong Unceded Territory while the curling club is owned and operated by the club’s members.

The Assiginack Museum is a focal point of the community, located in a mid-nineteenth century gothic home, built locally quarried stone.

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