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Kenora (/ k ə ˈ n ɔːr ə /), 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]
Kenora District is a district and census division in Northwestern Ontario, Canada.The district seat is the City of Kenora.. It is geographically the largest division in Ontario: at 407,213.01 square kilometres (157,225.82 sq mi), it covers 38 percent of the province's area, making it larger than Newfoundland and Labrador, and slightly smaller than Sweden or roughly the land size of California.
This is a list of mayors of Kenora, Ontario. [1] [2] Town of Rat Portage. William LeBaron Baker (1883) Walter Oliver (1884 - 1885) Thaddeus Anthony Gadbois (1886)
Kenora is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004.. Of the federal electoral districts located in Ontario it is the largest by area, and the smallest by population.
The Kenora City Council is the governing body for the city of Kenora, Ontario, Canada. The council consists of the mayor and six councillors.
Husky the Muskie is the nickname of a 40-foot-tall (12 m) outdoor sculpture depicting a muskellunge in Kenora, Ontario's McLeod Park. [1] The first Husky was constructed in 1967 as a potential Canadian Centennial project by Jules Horvath and Bob Selway from Deluxe Signs and Displays under the direction of the Kenora Chamber of Commerce.
King's Highway 17A, commonly referred to as Highway 17A or as the Kenora By-Pass, is an alternate route of Highway 17 around the city of Kenora, in the Canadian province of Ontario. It was built along a former Canadian Pacific Railway right-of-way, and has two westbound passing lanes in separate parts, and one eastbound passing lane.
The station, especially in the west, was often the focus of the community and a major link with the outside world. Civic boosters said the only evidence of a town's worth immediately seen by a prospective settler was the condition of town's railway station." Kenora's is shown in period photographs as an early example of the CPR railway garden. [3]