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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 Privy Council of the United Kingdom which eventually decided in Ontario's favour.

Kenora officially became part of the province of Ontario in 1889.

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. A.