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Kenora

Kenora (/kəˈnɔːrə/), previously named Rat Portage (French: Portage-aux-Rats), is a city situated on the Lake of the Woods in Ontario, Canada, close to the Manitoba boundary, and about 210 km (130 mi) east of Winnipeg by road.[5] It is the seat of Kenora District.

Kenora
City of Kenora
Nickname: 
K-Town
Kenora
Coordinates: 49°46′N 94°29′W / 49.767°N 94.483°W / 49.767; -94.483Coordinates: 49°46′N 94°29′W / 49.767°N 94.483°W / 49.767; -94.483
CountryCanada
ProvinceOntario
Incorporated (town)1882 as Rat Portage
Renamed1905 as Kenora
Amalgamated (City)2000[1]
Government
 • MayorAndrew Poirier
 • Governing BodyKenora City Council
 • MPEric Melillo (Kenora, CPC)
 • MPPGreg Rickford (Kenora—Rainy River, PC)
Area
 • Land211.59 km2 (81.70 sq mi)
Elevation409.70 m (1,344.16 ft)
Population
 (2021)[2][3]
 • Total14,967
 • Density71.3/km2 (185/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC−06:00 (CST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−05:00 (CDT)
Forward sortation area
Area code807
Websitewww.kenora.ca

The history of the name extends beyond the time of white settlers arriving in the region. The name Rat Portage had its origin in the Ojibwa name Waszush Onigum, which roughly translated, means portage to the country of the muskrats. A shortened and somewhat corrupted version, Rat Portage, was adopted by the Hudson’s Bay Company in naming their post, then located on Old Fort Island on the Winnipeg River. When the post was moved to the mainland and a town grew up around it, the name Rat Portage was assumed by the community.[6]

The town of Rat Portage was renamed in 1905 by using the first two letters of itself and the neighbouring towns of Keewatin and Norman to form the present-day City of Kenora.[7] 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 Nations band governments.

Toponymy

The name "Kenora" was coined by combining the first two letters of Keewatin, Norman and Rat Portage.[8]

The traditional Ojibwe name of Kenora is Wazhashk-Onigamiing,[9][10] meaning place of the muskrat portage, corresponding to the older English name of the settlement, Rat Portage. The nearby First Nation band of the Anishinabe of Wauzhushk Onigum retains this name as well.

History

Kenora is situated on the traditional territory of the Ojibway people.[5] Among the earliest Europeans in the Lake of the Woods area was explorer and fur trader Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye.[5] The first European, Jacques de Noyon, sighted Lake of the Woods in 1688.[11]

Pierre de La Vérendrye established a secure French trading post, Fort Saint 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.[citation needed]

In 1878, the company surveyed lots for the permanent settlement of Rat Portage ("portage to the country of the muskrat")[12] — the community kept that name until 1905, when it was renamed Kenora.[8]

 
Ojibway 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.[13] Kenora officially became part of the province of Ontario in 1889.[14] Boundaries were drawn up for the provinces and the Northwest Angle on Lake of the Woods which definitively drew the borders between Ontario, Manitoba, and the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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.[15]

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.[16]

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.

Rat Portage is mentioned in Algernon Blackwood's famous 1910 story, "The Wendigo".

On 22 November 1965, around 400 Aboriginal protesters, inspired by the Selma to Montgomery marches against white supremacy and racial discrimination in the Southern United States, undertook a quarter mile march against anti-indigenous racism along Main Street to Legion Hall, where they expressed their grievances to the city's mayor and councilors. This march became widely referred to as Canada's first civil rights march.[17]

 
Husky the Muskie

In 1967, the year of the Canadian Centennial, Kenora erected a sculpture known as Husky the Muskie. It has become the town's mascot and one of its most recognizable features.[1]

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. Later, 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.

Geography

Neighbourhoods

In addition to the former towns of Keewatin and Jaffray Melick, the city includes the neighbourhoods of Norman, Rabbit Lake, Rideout, Pinecrest, Minto, and Lakeside.

Keewatin forms the westernmost section of the City of Kenora. Norman was a small community halfway between the village of Keewatin and Rat Portage. The Village of Keewatin was founded in 1877 while the Village of Norman was founded in 1892; both communities amalgamated with Rat Portage in 1905 to form the Township of Kenora. Keewatin eventually separated and was founded as a Township in 1908.

The Jaffray Melick neighbourhood is the north-easternmost section of the City of Kenora. The Township of Jaffray was founded in 1894 and the Township of Melick in 1902; the two townships were amalgamated in 1908 as Jaffray and Melick, and renamed as Jaffray Melick in 1911. Compared to Keewatin, Norman, and Rat Portage, Jaffray Melick is the most rural community, with few retail stores and one golf course, Beauty Bay, on Black Sturgeon lake.

Climate

Kenora has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb) with warm summers and cold, dry winters.[18] Its climate is influenced by continental air masses. Winters are cold with a January high of −11 °C (12 °F) and a low of −21 °C (−6 °F). Temperatures below −20 °C (−4 °F) occur on 45 days.[4] The average annual snowfall is 158 cm (62 in), which is lower than places to the east as it is influenced by the dry air of continental high pressure zones, resulting in relatively dry winters.[18] Summers are warm with a July high of 24 °C (75 °F) and a low of 15 °C (59 °F) and temperatures above 30 °C (86 °F) occur on 5.3 days.[4] The average annual precipitation is 662 mm (26 in), with most of it being concentrated in the summer months with June being the wettest month and February the driest.[4]

During the winter Kenora will get precipitation mostly in the form of snow, other forms of winter precipitation include ice, sleet, and freezing rain. Snow cover usually lasts from November till March, about 154 days or 42% of the year.[19] The city frequently gets thunderstorms during the summer, averaging 24 days a year with thunderstorms.[20]

The highest temperature ever recorded in Kenora was 40.6 °C (105.1 °F) on 11 July 1936.[21] The coldest temperature ever recorded was −43.9 °C (−47.0 °F) on 20 January 1943.[4]

Climate data for Kenora Airport, 1981−2010 normals, extremes 1899−present[a]
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high humidex 9.0 8.5 27.0 30.0 39.3 41.2 43.2 41.6 41.6 28.9 18.9 8.7 43.2
Record high °C (°F) 9.1
(48.4)
8.8
(47.8)
23.8
(74.8)
30.6
(87.1)
35.4
(95.7)
37.2
(99.0)
40.6
(105.1)
35.0
(95.0)
34.6
(94.3)
26.7
(80.1)
19.4
(66.9)
9.4
(48.9)
40.6
(105.1)
Average high °C (°F) −11.4
(11.5)
−7.6
(18.3)
−0.2
(31.6)
9.4
(48.9)
16.7
(62.1)
21.7
(71.1)
24.4
(75.9)
23.4
(74.1)
17.1
(62.8)
8.8
(47.8)
−0.9
(30.4)
−9.2
(15.4)
7.7
(45.9)
Daily mean °C (°F) −16
(3)
−12.5
(9.5)
−5.2
(22.6)
4.1
(39.4)
11.3
(52.3)
16.8
(62.2)
19.7
(67.5)
18.6
(65.5)
12.7
(54.9)
5.1
(41.2)
−4.2
(24.4)
−13.1
(8.4)
3.1
(37.6)
Average low °C (°F) −20.5
(−4.9)
−17.4
(0.7)
−10.1
(13.8)
−1.3
(29.7)
5.8
(42.4)
11.8
(53.2)
14.9
(58.8)
13.9
(57.0)
8.3
(46.9)
1.4
(34.5)
−7.4
(18.7)
−17.1
(1.2)
−1.5
(29.3)
Record low °C (°F) −43.9
(−47.0)
−43.3
(−45.9)
−36.1
(−33.0)
−27.2
(−17.0)
−12.2
(10.0)
−1.1
(30.0)
3.9
(39.0)
−1.7
(28.9)
−6.7
(19.9)
−20
(−4)
−31.3
(−24.3)
−41.1
(−42.0)
−43.9
(−47.0)
Record low wind chill −57.5 −54.3 −46.7 −37.7 −20.5 −4.2 0.0 0.0 −12.6 −22.2 −46.8 −51.5 −57.5
Average precipitation mm (inches) 25.6
(1.01)
19.4
(0.76)
28.1
(1.11)
36.3
(1.43)
80.8
(3.18)
118.7
(4.67)
103.4
(4.07)
84.2
(3.31)
85.6
(3.37)
62.6
(2.46)
42.1
(1.66)
28.3
(1.11)
715.0
(28.15)
Average rainfall mm (inches) 0.7
(0.03)
3.0
(0.12)
8.5
(0.33)
22.4
(0.88)
77.4
(3.05)
118.6
(4.67)
103.4
(4.07)
84.2
(3.31)
84.6
(3.33)
49.4
(1.94)
12.0
(0.47)
1.1
(0.04)
565.3
(22.26)
Average snowfall cm (inches) 28.4
(11.2)
18.6
(7.3)
21.1
(8.3)
14.6
(5.7)
3.5
(1.4)
0.1
(0.0)
0.0
(0.0)
0.0
(0.0)
0.8
(0.3)
14.2
(5.6)
32.2
(12.7)
30.6
(12.0)
164.1
(64.6)
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.2 mm) 13.4 10.9 10.5 9.0 12.9 14.5 13.3 12.2 13.0 13.7 14.0 15.6 152.9
Average rainy days (≥ 0.2 mm) 0.50 1.1 2.9 5.6 12.1 14.5 13.3 12.2 12.9 10.1 3.6 0.83 89.5
Average snowy days (≥ 0.2 cm) 13.8 10.7 8.9 4.8 1.5 0.10 0.0 0.0 0.47 5.5 12.4 15.5 73.7
Source: Environment Canada,[4][21][22] Extremes for Kenora 1899-1939[23]

Demographics

Historical population
YearPop.±%
18911,806—    
19015,202+188.0%
19116,158+18.4%
19215,407−12.2%
19316,766+25.1%
19417,672+13.4%
YearPop.±%
19518,695+13.3%
196110,904+25.4%
197110,952+0.4%
19819,817−10.4%
19919,782−0.4%
199610,063+2.9%
YearPop.±%
200115,838+57.4%
200615,177−4.2%
201115,348+1.1%
201615,096−1.6%
The population change between 1996 and 2001 reflects Kenora's amalgamation in 2000.

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kenora had a population of 14,967 living in 6,510 of its 7,637 total private dwellings, a change of -0.9% from its 2016 population of 15,096. With a land area of 211.65 km2 (81.72 sq mi), it had a population density of 70.7/km2 (183.2/sq mi) in 2021.[24]

The median household income in 2005 for Kenora was $59,946, which is slightly below the Ontario provincial average of $60,455.[2]

Ethnic groups
Canada 2016 Census Population % of Total Population
Visible minority group
Source:[25]
Filipino 140 0.9
South Asian 45 0.3
Black 45 0.3
Chinese 40 0.3
Latin American 20 0.1
Japanese 20 0.1
Other or mixed visible minority 50 0.3
Total visible minority population 355 2.4
Aboriginal group
Source:[26]
First Nations 1,610 10.9
Métis 1,495 10.1
Inuit 10 0.1
Total Aboriginal population 3,150 21.3
European 11,285 76.3
Total population 14,790 100

Economy

Forestry, tourism and mining are the three largest sectors of the Kenora economy. The population balloons in the spring and summer to almost double the normal population when summer residents move in. The Lake of the Woods and numerous smaller lakes situated all around Kenora are the major draw for cottagers who summer here. Many are from the neighbouring province of Manitoba and the state of Minnesota.

Tourism

Kenora, a site of natural attractions, has visitors from all over the world year round. In the summer months visitors come to the area to undertake activities including swimming, biking, fishing, hiking, and boating.[citation needed] Kenora's tourist industry is also active during the winter months as visitors come not only to observe its natural environment but also to partake in ice fishing, snowboarding, skiing (both downhill and cross country) and snowmachining.[citation needed]

Kenora has two travel information centres. One is the newly renovated (2011) pavilion, located on the Harbourfront (the blue and grey building on Bernier Dr). The second information centre, called the Discovery Centre, opened July 22, 2011, and serves visitors year-round from its location at 931 Lake View Drive (just off of highway 17 West aka the Trans Canada highway).[citation needed]

Arts and culture

The Lake of the Woods Museum and Douglas Family Art Centre are located at The MUSE.[27][28]

Harbourfront, a park on the shore of Lake of the Woods, hosts the city's annual winter and summer festivals, as well as concerts.[citation needed]

Huskie the Muskie, a 40 feet (12 m) statue of a fighting muskellunge, is located in McLeod Park.

The city's downtown core has a public arts project, with 20 murals depicting the region's history painted on buildings in the business district.

The city is home to a major international freshwater bass fishing tournament.

Kenora is sometimes stereotyped as an archetypal "hoser" community, evidenced by the phrase "Kenora dinner jacket"[29] as a nickname for a hoser's flannel shirt.

St. Alban's Anglican Cathedral is in Kenora.

The now defunct Kenora Thistles ice hockey won the Stanley Cup in 1907, making Kenora the smallest city to have ever won the trophy.[30] Many local contemporary ice hockey clubs pay homage to the team by using its name, including the town's amateur, junior, and senior-level men's team.[31]

Government

 
Kenora City Hall

Kenora is represented in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Eric Melillo, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by MPP Greg Rickford of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.

Kenora has been served by two mayors since the municipal amalgamation in 2000. Dave Canfield served from 2000 until 2006, when he was defeated by Len Compton in the 2006 municipal election; Compton did not run in the 2010 municipal election, however, and Canfield was re-elected as his successor.[32]

Some residents of Kenora, citing dissatisfaction with the level of government service provided to the region by the provincial government, have proposed that the region secede from Ontario to join the province of Manitoba.

The current mayor since 2019 is Andrew Poirier.

Infrastructure

Transportation

 
Main Street/Highway 17 in Kenora

Via Rail offers passenger service to Redditt on the CN transcontinental rail line, approximately 30 minutes and 20 km (12 mi) north of Kenora. The CP transcontinental rail line passes directly through town.

Kenora Airport is located 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) east northeast of the city centre.[33]

M.S. Kenora is a cruise located at the waterfront.

Highway 17 passes through Kenora's urban core, and the Highway 17A Kenora By-Pass goes around the city. Both routes are designated as part of the Trans-Canada Highway. Highway 658 extends northerly from Kenora to Redditt.

Kenora Transit operates three routes, from Monday to Saturday, 7:00am to 6:30pm.[34]

Health care

Kenora's hospital, Lake of the Woods District Hospital, has three facilities in the city: the hospital itself, Morningstar Rehabilitation Centre, and Mental Health and Addictions services, located in St. Joseph's Health Centre.[citation needed]

Housing

Since Kenora is one of two judicial districts in Northwestern Ontario,[35] it has disproportionate housing shortage as people from across the region with little to no social support in Kenora are unable to find places to stay after release from prison or while waiting in the city before their court dates.[36] The situation worsened in 2013, when the judge in the Rainy River District moved and the position and its responsibilities was transferred to Kenora.[35]

Military

The federal government maintains an armoury (Kenora Armoury at 800-11th Avenue North) in Kenora for the 116th Independent Field Battery, RCA.

Education

Two school boards and a community college function in the Kenora Area.

The Keewatin-Patricia District School Board operates one high school (Beaver Brae Secondary School) and four elementary schools (Keewatin Public School, Evergreen School, King George IV School, and Valleyview School).

The Kenora Catholic District School Board operates one high school (Saint Thomas Aquinas High School) and three elementary schools (École Ste. Marguerite-Bourgeois, Pope John Paul II School and St. Louis School). The elementary school, officially named Pope John Paul II, amalgamated approximately 350 students from the former Mount Carmel and Our Lady of the Valley schools. École Ste. Marguerite-Bourgeois is a French immersion school.

Confederation College has a Kenora campus and serves post-secondary and adult education needs in the city and surrounding area.

Housed within the college is Contact North, which offers Kenora residents local access to university and college programs not directly offered by the college campus. Contact North is Ontario's most extensive distance education network providing access to education and training opportunities in remote locations of Northern Ontario through a network of access centres. Contact North works with 13 colleges and universities.

There is also an Indigenous college and education facility added called Seven Generations, located in the building that once housed Lakewood Junior High School before becoming Seven Generations Education Institute. It prepares Indigenous and Non-Indigenous students for work within the community and surrounding region.[37]

Geological Significance

One of Earth's earliest supercontinents, a large landmass comprising several of today's continents, predating Pangaea by 2.4 billion years, has been termed Kenorland by geologists, named after the Kenoran orogeny (also called the Algoman orogeny),[38] which in turn was named after the town of Kenora, Ontario.[39] In Kenora, rocks and geomagnetic evidence have been found which support Kenorland's creation approximately 2.72 billion years ago (2.72 Ga) as a result of a series of accretion events and the formation of new continental crust,[40] demarcating the earliest identifiably known land on Earth.

Media

The major news source in Kenora is the Kenora Daily Miner and News, one of Canada's smallest daily newspapers.

Radio

Television

Kenora was Canada's smallest (and North America's second smallest) television market, served by only one television station, CJBN-TV channel 13, a Global affiliate that ceased broadcasting in January 2017. The Kenora region is not designated as a mandatory market for digital television conversion. The Winnipeg outlets of CBC Television (CBWT-DT), Radio-Canada (CBWFT-DT), CTV (CKY-DT), Global (CKND-DT) and Citytv (CHMI-DT) are piped in via cable.

Notable people

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  38. ^ Salminen, Johnna; Pehrsson, Sally; Evans, David A.D.; Wang, Chong (2021). "Neoarchean-Paleoproterozoic supercycles". In Pesonen, Lauri J.; Salminen, Johanna; Elming, Sten-Ake; Evans, David A.D.; Veikkolainen, Toni (eds.). Ancient Supercontinents and the Paleogeography of Earth. Elsevier. p. 466. ISBN 0128185341.
  39. ^ Gower, Charles F.; Clifford, Paul M. (1981). "The structural geometry and geological history of Archean rocks at Kenora, north-western Ontario—a proposed type area for the Kenoran Orogeny". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.
  40. ^ Halla 2005, Introduction, p. 22

Bibliography

  • Halla, J. (2005). "Neoarchean sanukitoids (2.74–2.70 Ga)" (PDF). In Halla, J.; Nironen, M.; Lauri, L. S.; Kurhila, M. I.; Käpyaho, A.; Sorjonen-Ward, P.; Äikäs, O. (eds.). Eurogranites 2005: Proterozoic and Archean Granites and Related Rocks of the Finnish Precambrian. University of Helsinki. Retrieved March 12, 2016.

Notes

  1. ^ Temperature data was recorded in the city of Kenora from October 1899 to March 1939, and at Kenora Airport from August 1938 to present.

External links

  •   Kenora travel guide from Wikivoyage
  • Official website

kenora, this, article, about, city, other, uses, disambiguation, portage, redirects, here, nearby, first, nations, reserve, portage, ɔːr, previously, named, portage, french, portage, rats, city, situated, lake, woods, ontario, canada, close, manitoba, boundary. This article is about the city For other uses see Kenora disambiguation Rat Portage redirects here For the nearby First Nations reserve see Rat Portage 38A Kenora k e ˈ n ɔːr e previously named Rat Portage French Portage aux Rats is a city situated on the Lake of the Woods in Ontario Canada close to the Manitoba boundary and about 210 km 130 mi east of Winnipeg by road 5 It is the seat of Kenora District KenoraCity single tier City of KenoraNickname K TownKenoraCoordinates 49 46 N 94 29 W 49 767 N 94 483 W 49 767 94 483 Coordinates 49 46 N 94 29 W 49 767 N 94 483 W 49 767 94 483CountryCanadaProvinceOntarioIncorporated town 1882 as Rat PortageRenamed1905 as KenoraAmalgamated City 2000 1 Government MayorAndrew Poirier Governing BodyKenora City Council MPEric Melillo Kenora CPC MPPGreg Rickford Kenora Rainy River PC Area 2 3 Land211 59 km2 81 70 sq mi Elevation 4 409 70 m 1 344 16 ft Population 2021 2 3 Total14 967 Density71 3 km2 185 sq mi Time zoneUTC 06 00 CST Summer DST UTC 05 00 CDT Forward sortation areaP9NArea code807Websitewww kenora caThe history of the name extends beyond the time of white settlers arriving in the region The name Rat Portage had its origin in the Ojibwa name Waszush Onigum which roughly translated means portage to the country of the muskrats A shortened and somewhat corrupted version Rat Portage was adopted by the Hudson s Bay Company in naming their post then located on Old Fort Island on the Winnipeg River When the post was moved to the mainland and a town grew up around it the name Rat Portage was assumed by the community 6 The town of Rat Portage was renamed in 1905 by using the first two letters of itself and the neighbouring towns of Keewatin and Norman to form the present day City of Kenora 7 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 Nations band governments Contents 1 Toponymy 2 History 3 Geography 3 1 Neighbourhoods 3 2 Climate 4 Demographics 5 Economy 5 1 Tourism 6 Arts and culture 7 Government 8 Infrastructure 8 1 Transportation 8 2 Health care 8 3 Housing 8 4 Military 9 Education 10 Geological Significance 11 Media 11 1 Radio 11 2 Television 12 Notable people 13 References 14 Bibliography 15 Notes 16 External linksToponymy EditThe name Kenora was coined by combining the first two letters of Keewatin Norman and Rat Portage 8 The traditional Ojibwe name of Kenora is Wazhashk Onigamiing 9 10 meaning place of the muskrat portage corresponding to the older English name of the settlement Rat Portage The nearby First Nation band of the Anishinabe of Wauzhushk Onigum retains this name as well History EditKenora is situated on the traditional territory of the Ojibway people 5 Among the earliest Europeans in the Lake of the Woods area was explorer and fur trader Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Verendrye 5 The first European Jacques de Noyon sighted Lake of the Woods in 1688 11 Pierre de La Verendrye established a secure French trading post Fort Saint 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 citation needed In 1878 the company surveyed lots for the permanent settlement of Rat Portage portage to the country of the muskrat 12 the community kept that name until 1905 when it was renamed Kenora 8 Ojibway 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 13 Kenora officially became part of the province of Ontario in 1889 14 Boundaries were drawn up for the provinces and the Northwest Angle on Lake of the Woods which definitively drew the borders between Ontario Manitoba and the U S state of Minnesota 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 15 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 16 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 Rat Portage is mentioned in Algernon Blackwood s famous 1910 story The Wendigo On 22 November 1965 around 400 Aboriginal protesters inspired by the Selma to Montgomery marches against white supremacy and racial discrimination in the Southern United States undertook a quarter mile march against anti indigenous racism along Main Street to Legion Hall where they expressed their grievances to the city s mayor and councilors This march became widely referred to as Canada s first civil rights march 17 Husky the Muskie In 1967 the year of the Canadian Centennial Kenora erected a sculpture known as Husky the Muskie It has become the town s mascot and one of its most recognizable features 1 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 Later 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 Geography EditNeighbourhoods Edit In addition to the former towns of Keewatin and Jaffray Melick the city includes the neighbourhoods of Norman Rabbit Lake Rideout Pinecrest Minto and Lakeside Keewatin forms the westernmost section of the City of Kenora Norman was a small community halfway between the village of Keewatin and Rat Portage The Village of Keewatin was founded in 1877 while the Village of Norman was founded in 1892 both communities amalgamated with Rat Portage in 1905 to form the Township of Kenora Keewatin eventually separated and was founded as a Township in 1908 The Jaffray Melick neighbourhood is the north easternmost section of the City of Kenora The Township of Jaffray was founded in 1894 and the Township of Melick in 1902 the two townships were amalgamated in 1908 as Jaffray and Melick and renamed as Jaffray Melick in 1911 Compared to Keewatin Norman and Rat Portage Jaffray Melick is the most rural community with few retail stores and one golf course Beauty Bay on Black Sturgeon lake Climate Edit Kenora has a humid continental climate Koppen climate classification Dfb with warm summers and cold dry winters 18 Its climate is influenced by continental air masses Winters are cold with a January high of 11 C 12 F and a low of 21 C 6 F Temperatures below 20 C 4 F occur on 45 days 4 The average annual snowfall is 158 cm 62 in which is lower than places to the east as it is influenced by the dry air of continental high pressure zones resulting in relatively dry winters 18 Summers are warm with a July high of 24 C 75 F and a low of 15 C 59 F and temperatures above 30 C 86 F occur on 5 3 days 4 The average annual precipitation is 662 mm 26 in with most of it being concentrated in the summer months with June being the wettest month and February the driest 4 During the winter Kenora will get precipitation mostly in the form of snow other forms of winter precipitation include ice sleet and freezing rain Snow cover usually lasts from November till March about 154 days or 42 of the year 19 The city frequently gets thunderstorms during the summer averaging 24 days a year with thunderstorms 20 The highest temperature ever recorded in Kenora was 40 6 C 105 1 F on 11 July 1936 21 The coldest temperature ever recorded was 43 9 C 47 0 F on 20 January 1943 4 Climate data for Kenora Airport 1981 2010 normals extremes 1899 present a Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high humidex 9 0 8 5 27 0 30 0 39 3 41 2 43 2 41 6 41 6 28 9 18 9 8 7 43 2Record high C F 9 1 48 4 8 8 47 8 23 8 74 8 30 6 87 1 35 4 95 7 37 2 99 0 40 6 105 1 35 0 95 0 34 6 94 3 26 7 80 1 19 4 66 9 9 4 48 9 40 6 105 1 Average high C F 11 4 11 5 7 6 18 3 0 2 31 6 9 4 48 9 16 7 62 1 21 7 71 1 24 4 75 9 23 4 74 1 17 1 62 8 8 8 47 8 0 9 30 4 9 2 15 4 7 7 45 9 Daily mean C F 16 3 12 5 9 5 5 2 22 6 4 1 39 4 11 3 52 3 16 8 62 2 19 7 67 5 18 6 65 5 12 7 54 9 5 1 41 2 4 2 24 4 13 1 8 4 3 1 37 6 Average low C F 20 5 4 9 17 4 0 7 10 1 13 8 1 3 29 7 5 8 42 4 11 8 53 2 14 9 58 8 13 9 57 0 8 3 46 9 1 4 34 5 7 4 18 7 17 1 1 2 1 5 29 3 Record low C F 43 9 47 0 43 3 45 9 36 1 33 0 27 2 17 0 12 2 10 0 1 1 30 0 3 9 39 0 1 7 28 9 6 7 19 9 20 4 31 3 24 3 41 1 42 0 43 9 47 0 Record low wind chill 57 5 54 3 46 7 37 7 20 5 4 2 0 0 0 0 12 6 22 2 46 8 51 5 57 5Average precipitation mm inches 25 6 1 01 19 4 0 76 28 1 1 11 36 3 1 43 80 8 3 18 118 7 4 67 103 4 4 07 84 2 3 31 85 6 3 37 62 6 2 46 42 1 1 66 28 3 1 11 715 0 28 15 Average rainfall mm inches 0 7 0 03 3 0 0 12 8 5 0 33 22 4 0 88 77 4 3 05 118 6 4 67 103 4 4 07 84 2 3 31 84 6 3 33 49 4 1 94 12 0 0 47 1 1 0 04 565 3 22 26 Average snowfall cm inches 28 4 11 2 18 6 7 3 21 1 8 3 14 6 5 7 3 5 1 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 3 14 2 5 6 32 2 12 7 30 6 12 0 164 1 64 6 Average precipitation days 0 2 mm 13 4 10 9 10 5 9 0 12 9 14 5 13 3 12 2 13 0 13 7 14 0 15 6 152 9Average rainy days 0 2 mm 0 50 1 1 2 9 5 6 12 1 14 5 13 3 12 2 12 9 10 1 3 6 0 83 89 5Average snowy days 0 2 cm 13 8 10 7 8 9 4 8 1 5 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 47 5 5 12 4 15 5 73 7Source Environment Canada 4 21 22 Extremes for Kenora 1899 1939 23 Demographics EditHistorical populationYearPop 18911 806 19015 202 188 0 19116 158 18 4 19215 407 12 2 19316 766 25 1 19417 672 13 4 YearPop 19518 695 13 3 196110 904 25 4 197110 952 0 4 19819 817 10 4 19919 782 0 4 199610 063 2 9 YearPop 200115 838 57 4 200615 177 4 2 201115 348 1 1 201615 096 1 6 The population change between 1996 and 2001 reflects Kenora s amalgamation in 2000 In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada Kenora had a population of 14 967 living in 6 510 of its 7 637 total private dwellings a change of 0 9 from its 2016 population of 15 096 With a land area of 211 65 km2 81 72 sq mi it had a population density of 70 7 km2 183 2 sq mi in 2021 24 The median household income in 2005 for Kenora was 59 946 which is slightly below the Ontario provincial average of 60 455 2 Ethnic groups Canada 2016 Census Population of Total PopulationVisible minority groupSource 25 Filipino 140 0 9South Asian 45 0 3Black 45 0 3Chinese 40 0 3Latin American 20 0 1Japanese 20 0 1Other or mixed visible minority 50 0 3Total visible minority population 355 2 4Aboriginal groupSource 26 First Nations 1 610 10 9Metis 1 495 10 1Inuit 10 0 1Total Aboriginal population 3 150 21 3European 11 285 76 3Total population 14 790 100Economy EditForestry tourism and mining are the three largest sectors of the Kenora economy The population balloons in the spring and summer to almost double the normal population when summer residents move in The Lake of the Woods and numerous smaller lakes situated all around Kenora are the major draw for cottagers who summer here Many are from the neighbouring province of Manitoba and the state of Minnesota Tourism Edit Kenora a site of natural attractions has visitors from all over the world year round In the summer months visitors come to the area to undertake activities including swimming biking fishing hiking and boating citation needed Kenora s tourist industry is also active during the winter months as visitors come not only to observe its natural environment but also to partake in ice fishing snowboarding skiing both downhill and cross country and snowmachining citation needed Kenora has two travel information centres One is the newly renovated 2011 pavilion located on the Harbourfront the blue and grey building on Bernier Dr The second information centre called the Discovery Centre opened July 22 2011 and serves visitors year round from its location at 931 Lake View Drive just off of highway 17 West aka the Trans Canada highway citation needed Arts and culture EditThe Lake of the Woods Museum and Douglas Family Art Centre are located at The MUSE 27 28 Harbourfront a park on the shore of Lake of the Woods hosts the city s annual winter and summer festivals as well as concerts citation needed Huskie the Muskie a 40 feet 12 m statue of a fighting muskellunge is located in McLeod Park The city s downtown core has a public arts project with 20 murals depicting the region s history painted on buildings in the business district The city is home to a major international freshwater bass fishing tournament Kenora is sometimes stereotyped as an archetypal hoser community evidenced by the phrase Kenora dinner jacket 29 as a nickname for a hoser s flannel shirt St Alban s Anglican Cathedral is in Kenora The now defunct Kenora Thistles ice hockey won the Stanley Cup in 1907 making Kenora the smallest city to have ever won the trophy 30 Many local contemporary ice hockey clubs pay homage to the team by using its name including the town s amateur junior and senior level men s team 31 Government Edit Kenora City Hall Kenora is represented in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Eric Melillo and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by MPP Greg Rickford of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario Kenora has been served by two mayors since the municipal amalgamation in 2000 Dave Canfield served from 2000 until 2006 when he was defeated by Len Compton in the 2006 municipal election Compton did not run in the 2010 municipal election however and Canfield was re elected as his successor 32 Some residents of Kenora citing dissatisfaction with the level of government service provided to the region by the provincial government have proposed that the region secede from Ontario to join the province of Manitoba The current mayor since 2019 is Andrew Poirier Infrastructure EditTransportation Edit Main Street Highway 17 in Kenora Via Rail offers passenger service to Redditt on the CN transcontinental rail line approximately 30 minutes and 20 km 12 mi north of Kenora The CP transcontinental rail line passes directly through town Kenora Airport is located 5 nautical miles 9 3 km 5 8 mi east northeast of the city centre 33 M S Kenora is a cruise located at the waterfront Highway 17 passes through Kenora s urban core and the Highway 17A Kenora By Pass goes around the city Both routes are designated as part of the Trans Canada Highway Highway 658 extends northerly from Kenora to Redditt Kenora Transit operates three routes from Monday to Saturday 7 00am to 6 30pm 34 Health care Edit Kenora s hospital Lake of the Woods District Hospital has three facilities in the city the hospital itself Morningstar Rehabilitation Centre and Mental Health and Addictions services located in St Joseph s Health Centre citation needed Housing Edit Since Kenora is one of two judicial districts in Northwestern Ontario 35 it has disproportionate housing shortage as people from across the region with little to no social support in Kenora are unable to find places to stay after release from prison or while waiting in the city before their court dates 36 The situation worsened in 2013 when the judge in the Rainy River District moved and the position and its responsibilities was transferred to Kenora 35 Military Edit The federal government maintains an armoury Kenora Armoury at 800 11th Avenue North in Kenora for the 116th Independent Field Battery RCA Education EditTwo school boards and a community college function in the Kenora Area The Keewatin Patricia District School Board operates one high school Beaver Brae Secondary School and four elementary schools Keewatin Public School Evergreen School King George IV School and Valleyview School The Kenora Catholic District School Board operates one high school Saint Thomas Aquinas High School and three elementary schools Ecole Ste Marguerite Bourgeois Pope John Paul II School and St Louis School The elementary school officially named Pope John Paul II amalgamated approximately 350 students from the former Mount Carmel and Our Lady of the Valley schools Ecole Ste Marguerite Bourgeois is a French immersion school Confederation College has a Kenora campus and serves post secondary and adult education needs in the city and surrounding area Housed within the college is Contact North which offers Kenora residents local access to university and college programs not directly offered by the college campus Contact North is Ontario s most extensive distance education network providing access to education and training opportunities in remote locations of Northern Ontario through a network of access centres Contact North works with 13 colleges and universities There is also an Indigenous college and education facility added called Seven Generations located in the building that once housed Lakewood Junior High School before becoming Seven Generations Education Institute It prepares Indigenous and Non Indigenous students for work within the community and surrounding region 37 Geological Significance EditOne of Earth s earliest supercontinents a large landmass comprising several of today s continents predating Pangaea by 2 4 billion years has been termed Kenorland by geologists named after the Kenoran orogeny also called the Algoman orogeny 38 which in turn was named after the town of Kenora Ontario 39 In Kenora rocks and geomagnetic evidence have been found which support Kenorland s creation approximately 2 72 billion years ago 2 72 Ga as a result of a series of accretion events and the formation of new continental crust 40 demarcating the earliest identifiably known land on Earth Media EditThe major news source in Kenora is the Kenora Daily Miner and News one of Canada s smallest daily newspapers Radio Edit FM 89 5 CJRL FM 89 5 The Lake adult contemporary FM 93 5 CKSB 7 FM Ici Radio Canada Premiere relays CKSB 10 FM Winnipeg FM 98 7 CBQX FM CBC Radio One relays CBQT FM Thunder Bay FM 104 5 CKQV FM 2 Q104 hot adult contemporary relays CKQV FM Vermilion Bay Television Edit Kenora was Canada s smallest and North America s second smallest television market served by only one television station CJBN TV channel 13 a Global affiliate that ceased broadcasting in January 2017 The Kenora region is not designated as a mandatory market for digital television conversion The Winnipeg outlets of CBC Television CBWT DT Radio Canada CBWFT DT CTV CKY DT Global CKND DT and Citytv CHMI DT are piped in via cable Notable people EditGary Bergman former NHL and Team Canada 1972 player Glory Annen Clibbery actress Ralph Connor writer Tim Coulis former NHL player Phil Eyler politician Silas Griffis member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Peter Heenan municipal provincial federal politician Robert Hilles poet Tom Hooper member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Kyle Koch former CFL offensive guard Toronto Argonauts Victor Lindquist Olympic hockey gold medal winner 1932 Shane Lunny designer and producer business founder Eric Melillo MP Bob Nault former MP and Indian Affairs Minister Dennis Olson ice hockey player Tom Phillips member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Mike Richards ice hockey player Greg Rickford MPP and Ontario Minister of Energy Northern Development and Mines Rick St Croix former NHL goaltender and assistant coach for the Toronto Maple Leafs Jacques Schyrgens painter Mike Smith silver medalist in the decathlon at the 1991 World ChampionshipsReferences Edit a b City of Kenora History Milestones Archived 2012 03 13 at the Wayback Machine and 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Salminen Johnna Pehrsson Sally Evans David A D Wang Chong 2021 Neoarchean Paleoproterozoic supercycles In Pesonen Lauri J Salminen Johanna Elming Sten Ake Evans David A D Veikkolainen Toni eds Ancient Supercontinents and the Paleogeography of Earth Elsevier p 466 ISBN 0128185341 Gower Charles F Clifford Paul M 1981 The structural geometry and geological history of Archean rocks at Kenora north western Ontario a proposed type area for the Kenoran Orogeny Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences Halla 2005 Introduction p 22Bibliography EditHalla J 2005 Neoarchean sanukitoids 2 74 2 70 Ga PDF In Halla J Nironen M Lauri L S Kurhila M I Kapyaho A Sorjonen Ward P Aikas O eds Eurogranites 2005 Proterozoic and Archean Granites and Related Rocks of the Finnish Precambrian University of Helsinki Retrieved March 12 2016 Notes Edit Temperature data was recorded in the city of Kenora from October 1899 to March 1939 and at Kenora Airport from August 1938 to present External links Edit Wikimedia Commons 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