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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 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.
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]
The Keewatin-Patricia District School Board (known as English-language Public District School Board No. 5A prior to 1999 [1]) oversees public education in the Kenora District of northwestern Ontario. Its jurisdiction includes a geographic area of 6,565 km 2 from the Manitoba border to roughly the western tip of Lake Superior. [2]
Elections were held in the organized municipalities in the Kenora District of Ontario on October 27, 2014 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.
The Kenora Miner and News is a weekly publication based in Kenora, Ontario. The Miner and News is delivered free throughout the region every Thursday. The Miner and News is owned by Postmedia. The paper was formerly known as the Kenora Daily Miner and News. In April 2019 the Miner ceased publishing on Tuesdays, prompting the removal of the word ...
The 1973 Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce bank robbery occurred in Kenora, Ontario, Canada, on May 10, 1973. A robber entered the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce with firearms, a bomb, and bags to hold money. Upon leaving the bank, accompanied by an undercover police officer, he was shot by a police sniper and the bomb detonated.
Len Compton (born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island) is a Canadian politician who served as mayor of Kenora, Ontario from 2006 to 2010. A lawyer who retired from practice in 2001, Compton served on Kenora's municipal council from 2003 to 2006. He defeated incumbent mayor Dave Canfield in the 2006 municipal election. [1]