Goulais and District is a local services board in the Canadian province of Ontario. Located in the Algoma District north of Sault Ste. Marie, it encompasses and provides services to the unincorporated townships of Dennis North, Fenwick, Havilland, Kars, Ley, Pennefather, Tupper and Vankoughnet, including the communities of Bellevue, Bourdage Corner, Goulais Bay, Goulais River, Karalash Corners, Kirby's Corner, and Sand Bay.^[1]

In the community of Goulais Bay, on the grounds of Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church built by Frederic Baraga, an Ontario Provincial Plaque explains that he was a pioneer missionary in northwestern Ontario responsible for Jesuit missions from Bruce Mines, Ontario, to Thunder Bay, Ontario. Frederic Baraga produced an Ojibwa grammar and dictionary which are still in use.^[2]

Goulais River is located at the western terminus of Highway 552. The community began in 1882 and was founded by Captain Fred Tilly, for whom the town's Captain Tilly Community Centre is named. The post office was established about 1940. Today, the commercial centre of Goulais River consists of the combination general store and post office but also has a variety of churches, stores and other services in the area. The community was formerly served by the Goulaigan Free Press community newspaper, but is now only served by the Northern Newsletter.

v t e 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 Wawa White River
Villages	Hilton Beach
First Nations	Batchewana Garden River Hornepayne Michipicoten Missanabie Mississauga Sagamok Serpent River Thessalon
Indian reserves	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
Unorganized areas	North South East
Local services boards	Aweres Batchawana Bay Goulais and District Hawk Junction Missanabie Peace Tree Searchmont Wharncliffe and Kynoch
Unincorporated communities	Algoma Mills Ansonia Bar River Bellevue Bourdage Corner Bruce Station Cloudslee Dalton Day Mills Dayton Dean Lake Desbarats Dunns Valley Echo Bay Eley Fire River Franz Frater Glendale Goudreau Goulais Bay Goulais Mission Goulais River Gros Cap Harmony Harmony Bay Havilland Bay Heyden Iron Bridge Island Lake Karalash Corners Kentvale Kirby's Corner Kynoch Leeburn Little Rapids Livingstone Livingstone Creek Lochalsh MacDuff MacLennan Maple Ridge Michipicoten Michipicoten River Moiles Mills Montreal River Montreal River Harbour Neebish Nestorville Northland Northland Lake Norris Oba Ophir Parkinson Plummer Poplar Dale Port Findlay Ranger Lake Richards Landing Rock Lake Rydal Bank Sailors Encampment Sand Bay Serpent River Sherwood Sowerby Spragge Sunset Beach Sylvan Valley Wabos Wharncliffe
See also: Communities in Algoma District Census divisions of Ontario

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