Rat Portage
| Kenora | |
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| City (single-tier) | |
| City of Kenora | |
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| Nickname(s): K-Town | |
 Kenora
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| Coordinates: 49°46′N 94°29′W / 49.767°N 94.483°WCoordinates: 49°46′N 94°29′W / 49.767°N 94.483°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Ontario
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| Incorporated (town) | 1882 as Rat Portage |
| Renamed | 1905 as Kenora |
| Amalgamated (City) | 2000 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Dave Canfield |
| • Governing Body | Kenora City Council |
| • MP | Bob Nault (Kenora, LPC) |
| • MPP | Sarah Campbell (Kenora—Rainy River, NDP) |
| Area | |
| • Land | 211.59 km2 (81.70 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 409.70 m (1,344.16 ft) |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 15,096 |
| • Density | 71.3/km2 (185/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CST (UTC−6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC−5) |
| Forward sortation area | P9N |
| Area code(s) | 807 |
| Website | www.kenora.ca |
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.
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-Mellick 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.
The name "Kenora" was coined by combining the first two letters of Keewatin, Norman and Rat Portage.
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 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.
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