The City of Kenora,Canada
This is the city of Kenora,Ontario,Canada
Kenora, originally named Rat Portage, is a small city situated on the Lake of the Woods in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, close to the Manitoba boundary, and about 200 km east of Winnipeg. It is the seat of Kenora District.
The town of Kenora was amalgamated with the towns of Keewatin and Jaffray Melick in 2000 to form the present-day City of Kenora.
Kenora's future site was in the territory of the Ojibway when the first European, Jacques De Noyon, sighted Lake of the Woods in 1688. Indigenous peoples of varying cultures had occupied the area for thousands of years.
The Stanley Cup was won by the Kenora Thistles hockey team in 1907. The team featured such Hall of Famers as Billy McGimsie, Tommy Phillips, Roxy Beaudro, and Art Ross, for whom the Art Ross Trophy is named. Kenora is the smallest town to have won a major North American sports title.
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A dramatic bank robbery took place in Kenora on May 10, 1973. An unknown man entered the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce heavily armed and wearing a dead man's switch, a device utilising a clothespin, wires, battery and dynamite, where the user holds the clothespin in the mouth, exerting force on the clothespin. Should the user release the clothespin, two wires attached to both sides of the pin complete an electrical circuit, sending current from the battery, detonating the explosives. After robbing the bank, the robber exited the CIBC, and was preparing to enter a city vehicle driven by undercover police officer Don Milliard. A sniper, Robert Letain, positioned across the street, shot the robber, causing the explosives to detonate and kill the robber. Most of the windows on the shops on the main street were shattered as a result of the blast. Recently, Kenora Police submitted DNA samples from the robber's remains to a national database to identify him; however, the suspect was never positively identified.
The importance of the logging industry declined in the second part of the 20th century, and the last log boom was towed into Kenora in 1985. The tourist and recreation industries have become more important.
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Kenora's future site was in the territory of the Ojibway when the first European, Jacques de Noyon, sighted Lake of the Woods in 1688.
Pierre de La Vérendrye established a secure French trading post, Fort St. Charles, to the south of present-day Kenora near the current Canada/U.S. border in 1732, and France maintained the post until 1763 when it lost the territory to the British in the Seven Years' War — until then, it was the most northwesterly settlement of New France. In 1836 the Hudson's Bay Company established a post on Old Fort Island, and in 1861, the Company opened a post on the mainland at Kenora's current location.
In 1878, the company surveyed lots for the permanent settlement of Rat Portage (portage to the country of the muskrat)[6] — the community kept that name until 1905, when it was renamed Kenora.[5]
Ojibwa tipi, Kenora, 1922.
Kenora was once claimed as part of the Province of Manitoba, and there are early references to Rat Portage, Manitoba. There was a long lasting argument between the two provinces known as the Ontario-Manitoba boundary dispute. Each province claimed the town as part of their territory and the dispute lasted from 1870 to 1884. Although Ottawa had ruled the town part of Manitoba in 1881, the issue was finally taken up with the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council which eventually decided in Ontario's favour.[7] Kenora officially became part of the province of Ontario in 1889.[8] Boundaries were drawn up for the provinces and the Northwest Angle on Lake of the Woods which definitively drew the borders between Ontario, Manitoba, Canada, and Minnesota, U.S.
Gold and the railway were both important in the community's early history: gold was first discovered in the area in 1850, and by 1893, 20 mines were operating within 24 km (15 mi) of Rat Portage, and the first Canadian ocean-to-ocean train passed through in 1886 on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Among the entrepreneurs attracted to the town was the Hon. JEP Vereker, a retired British army officer and youngest son of the 4th Viscount Gort.[9]
Later, a highway was built through Kenora in 1932, becoming part of Canada's first coast-to-coast highway in 1943, and then part of the Trans-Canada Highway, placing the community on both of Canada's major transcontinental transportation routes. The original barrier to the completion of the highway concerned the crossing of the Winnipeg River at two locations. The single span arch bridges are among the longest of their type in North America.
During the Prohibition era in the United States, the Lake of the Woods served as a smuggler's route for the transport of alcohol.
In December 1883, there was a large fire in Rat Portage, rendering 70 of the town's then population of 700 homeless.[10]
The Stanley Cup was won by the Kenora Thistles hockey team in 1907. The team featured such Hall of Famers as Billy McGimsie, Tommy Phillips, and Art Ross, for whom the Art Ross Trophy is named. Kenora is the smallest town to have won a major North American sports title.
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This article is about a city in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. For other uses, see Kenora (disambiguation).
Rat Portage redirects here. For the nearby Obashkaandagaang Bay First Nation reserve, see Rat Portage 38A.
Kenora, originally named Rat Portage (French: Portage-aux-Rats), is a small city situated on the Lake of the Woods in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, close to the Manitoba boundary, and about 200 km (124 mi) east of Winnipeg. It is the seat of Kenora District. Coordinates: 49°46′N 94°29′W
Country
Canada
Province
Ontario
Incorporated (town)
1882 as Rat Portage
Renamed
1905 as Kenora
Amalgamated (City)
2000[1]
Government
• Mayor
Dan Reynard
• Governing Body
Kenora City Council
• MP
Bob Nault (Kenora, LPC)
• MPP
Greg Rickford (Kenora—Rainy River, PC)
Area[2][3]
• Land
211.59 km2 (81.70 sq mi)
Elevation[4]
409.70 m (1,344.16 ft)
Population (2016)[2][3]
• Total
15,096
• Density
71.3/km2 (185/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC−6 (CST)
• Summer (DST)
UTC−5 (CDT)
Forward sortation area
P9N
Area code(s)
807
Website
kenora.ca
The town of Rat Portage was amalgamated with the towns of Keewatin and Norman in 1905 to form the present-day City of Kenora. In 2001, the towns of Kenora and Keewatin as well as the unincorporated communities of Norman and Jaffray Melick amalgamated under the Municipal Act, 2001.
Kenora is the administrative headquarters of the Anishinabe of Wauzhushk Onigum, Obashkaandagaang Bay, and Washagamis Bay First Nation band governments
Ontario Torch Of Life Register Now: Kenora City Hall pt 2 3 2 2012
Kenora March 2 2012 City Hall pt 2
Step By Step is a charity established by George Marcello in 1996.
In 1997, after receiving a life saving liver transplant, he started on a five year trek walking across Canada to thank his anonymous donor. On June 13 the Torch Of Life, an Olympic style torch was anonymously delivered at him doorstep anonymously. He carried this with him, and almost a million people touched it, and thousands of precious stories developed.
On September 5 2001, he was asked to bring the Torch to Vatican City, where Pope John Paul II blessed it, and called organ & tissue donations a Genuine Act Of Love and wisely encouraged the young people to carry its message. Since then, we have referred to our charity as the Torch of Life .
In 2004, our famous 13 year old Kristopher Knowles, carried it across Canada while waiting for a liver transplant. This amazing young boy inspired hundreds of thousands of students. In the following years thousands of young people from Canada & USA have championed the Torch through thousands of cities & towns in their respective communities. These campaigns were called SOS4000 & SOSTHEAMERICAS.
On March 2, 2012, twenty year old Khaled Khatib carried it through 72 cities & towns in Ontario. He is presently the official Torch Bearer, preparing to carry it through Canada and the world. He hopes to be joined by Kristopher & Helene Campbell. We believe by having these young champions promote organ & tissue donations can save lives globally and bring the world a little closer.
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1st Annual Stay in Kenora 100. Single Cylinder Sled Enduro | Kenora, ON
Ontario Torch Of Life Register Now: Kenora City Hall pt 1 3 2 2012
Kenora March 2 2012 City Hall pt 1
Step By Step is a charity established by George Marcello in 1996.
In 1997, after receiving a life saving liver transplant, he started on a five year trek walking across Canada to thank his anonymous donor. On June 13 the Torch Of Life, an Olympic style torch was anonymously delivered at him doorstep anonymously. He carried this with him, and almost a million people touched it, and thousands of precious stories developed.
On September 5 2001, he was asked to bring the Torch to Vatican City, where Pope John Paul II blessed it, and called organ & tissue donations a Genuine Act Of Love and wisely encouraged the young people to carry its message. Since then, we have referred to our charity as the Torch of Life .
In 2004, our famous 13 year old Kristopher Knowles, carried it across Canada while waiting for a liver transplant. This amazing young boy inspired hundreds of thousands of students. In the following years thousands of young people from Canada & USA have championed the Torch through thousands of cities & towns in their respective communities. These campaigns were called SOS4000 & SOSTHEAMERICAS.
On March 2, 2012, twenty year old Khaled Khatib carried it through 72 cities & towns in Ontario. He is presently the official Torch Bearer, preparing to carry it through Canada and the world. He hopes to be joined by Kristopher & Helene Campbell. We believe by having these young champions promote organ & tissue donations can save lives globally and bring the world a little closer.
Ontario Hubs: Human Trafficking in Kenora
The provincial government is funding a new program to help human trafficking victims in the Lake of the Woods area. But not everyone is sure that the dock girls, as they're known locally, actually exist. Ontario Hubs journalist Jon Thompson joins The Agenda to discuss his research.
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Kenora's future site was in the territory of the Ojibway when the first European, Jacques de Noyon, sighted Lake of the Woods in 1688.
Pierre de La Vérendrye established a secure French trading post, Fort St. Charles, to the south of present-day Kenora near the current Canada/U.S. border in 1732, and France maintained the post until 1763 when it lost the territory to the British in the Seven Years' War — until then, it was the most northwesterly settlement of New France. In 1836 the Hudson's Bay Company established a post on Old Fort Island, and in 1861, the Company opened a post on the mainland at Kenora's current location.
In 1878, the company surveyed lots for the permanent settlement of Rat Portage (portage to the country of the muskrat)[6] — the community kept that name until 1905, when it was renamed Kenora.[5]
Ojibwa tipi, Kenora, 1922.
Kenora was once claimed as part of the Province of Manitoba, and there are early references to Rat Portage, Manitoba. There was a long lasting argument between the two provinces known as the Ontario-Manitoba boundary dispute. Each province claimed the town as part of their territory and the dispute lasted from 1870 to 1884. Although Ottawa had ruled the town part of Manitoba in 1881, the issue was finally taken up with the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council which eventually decided in Ontario's favour.[7] Kenora officially became part of the province of Ontario in 1889.[8] Boundaries were drawn up for the provinces and the Northwest Angle on Lake of the Woods which definitively drew the borders between Ontario, Manitoba, Canada, and Minnesota, U.S.
Gold and the railway were both important in the community's early history: gold was first discovered in the area in 1850, and by 1893, 20 mines were operating within 24 km (15 mi) of Rat Portage, and the first Canadian ocean-to-ocean train passed through in 1886 on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Among the entrepreneurs attracted to the town was the Hon. JEP Vereker, a retired British army officer and youngest son of the 4th Viscount Gort.[9]
Later, a highway was built through Kenora in 1932, becoming part of Canada's first coast-to-coast highway in 1943, and then part of the Trans-Canada Highway, placing the community on both of Canada's major transcontinental transportation routes. The original barrier to the completion of the highway concerned the crossing of the Winnipeg River at two locations. The single span arch bridges are among the longest of their type in North America.
During the Prohibition era in the United States, the Lake of the Woods served as a smuggler's route for the transport of alcohol.
In December 1883, there was a large fire in Rat Portage, rendering 70 of the town's then population of 700 homeless.[10]
The Stanley Cup was won by the Kenora Thistles hockey team in 1907. The team featured such Hall of Famers as Billy McGimsie, Tommy Phillips, and Art Ross, for whom the Art Ross Trophy is named. Kenora is the sm
City of Kenora Committee of the Whole September 6, 2016
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Winnipeg To Kenora / Travel Vlog / (Part One)
Kenora's future site was in the territory of the Ojibway when the first European, Jacques de Noyon, sighted Lake of the Woods in 1688.
Pierre de La Vérendrye established a secure French trading post, Fort St. Charles, to the south of present-day Kenora near the current Canada/U.S. border in 1732, and France maintained the post until 1763 when it lost the territory to the British in the Seven Years' War — until then, it was the most northwesterly settlement of New France. In 1836 the Hudson's Bay Company established a post on Old Fort Island, and in 1861, the Company opened a post on the mainland at Kenora's current location.
In 1878, the company surveyed lots for the permanent settlement of Rat Portage (portage to the country of the muskrat)[6] — the community kept that name until 1905, when it was renamed Kenora.[5]
Ojibwa tipi, Kenora, 1922.
Kenora was once claimed as part of the Province of Manitoba, and there are early references to Rat Portage, Manitoba. There was a long lasting argument between the two provinces known as the Ontario-Manitoba boundary dispute. Each province claimed the town as part of their territory and the dispute lasted from 1870 to 1884. Although Ottawa had ruled the town part of Manitoba in 1881, the issue was finally taken up with the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council which eventually decided in Ontario's favour.[7] Kenora officially became part of the province of Ontario in 1889.[8] Boundaries were drawn up for the provinces and the Northwest Angle on Lake of the Woods which definitively drew the borders between Ontario, Manitoba, Canada, and Minnesota, U.S.
Gold and the railway were both important in the community's early history: gold was first discovered in the area in 1850, and by 1893, 20 mines were operating within 24 km (15 mi) of Rat Portage, and the first Canadian ocean-to-ocean train passed through in 1886 on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Among the entrepreneurs attracted to the town was the Hon. JEP Vereker, a retired British army officer and youngest son of the 4th Viscount Gort.[9]
Later, a highway was built through Kenora in 1932, becoming part of Canada's first coast-to-coast highway in 1943, and then part of the Trans-Canada Highway, placing the community on both of Canada's major transcontinental transportation routes. The original barrier to the completion of the highway concerned the crossing of the Winnipeg River at two locations. The single span arch bridges are among the longest of their type in North America.
During the Prohibition era in the United States, the Lake of the Woods served as a smuggler's route for the transport of alcohol.
In December 1883, there was a large fire in Rat Portage, rendering 70 of the town's then population of 700 homeless.[10]
The Stanley Cup was won by the Kenora Thistles hockey team in 1907. The team featured such Hall of Famers as Billy McGimsie, Tommy Phillips, and Art Ross, for whom the Art Ross Trophy is named. Kenora is the sm
City of Kenora Committee of the Whole January 10, 2017
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Open house at Super 8 in Kenora
Connecting Kenora
Bridges are an essential part of keeping this unique Northern community connected. The federal Gas Tax Fund helped Kenora rehabilitate the Winnipeg River West Branch Bridge, a key piece of local infrastructure. Learn more at gastaxatwork.ca.
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Summery images of Lake of the Woods. (Kenora, Ontario).
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City of Kenora Council meeting July 17 2018
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