The Kenora Catholic District School Board operates one high school ( Saint Thomas Aquinas High School ) and three elementary schools ( École Ste.

Forestry, tourism and mining are the three largest sectors of the Kenora economy.

Kenora's hospital, Lake of the Woods District Hospital, has three facilities in the City of Kenora.

He scored five more goals in the six games played over three Stanley Cup challenges, including two in the final game of the second series against Kenora to help the Wanderers regain control of the Cup.

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 highway continues east from Winnipeg for another to Kenora.

The existing branch from Kenora continues east for to Dryden.

A second branch extends southward along Highway 71 from Kenora to Chapple, a routing of, and then eastward along Highway 11 for to Shabaqua, where it reunites with the main Highway 17 route.

Recently, Kenora Police submitted DNA samples from the robber's remains to a national database to identify him ; however, the suspect was never positively identified.

Kenora, a site of natural attractions, is home to visitors from all over the world year round.

The City of Kenora is home to the Lake of the Woods Museum, which has won awards from the Ontario Historical Society for its exhibits.

Highway 658 extends northerly from Kenora to Redditt.

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.

Kenora had a population of 15, 177 people in 2006, which was a decrease of 4. 2 % from the 2001 census count.

Category: People from Kenora

The Wanderers would regain the Cup from Kenora two months later in Winnipeg, Manitoba, defeating the Thistles 7 – 2 and 5 – 6.

He has served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Canada, since 1987 as the Member of Provincial Parliament from the northern riding of Kenora — Rainy River.

Born Francis Alvin George Hamilton in Kenora, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1938 from the University of Saskatchewan.

Category: People from Kenora

At one time, CBWAT ( Kenora ) offered separate local news programming from CBWT Winnipeg, although this was discontinued in 1979 / 80 when CJBN-TV went on the air.

The unincorporated Patricia District, comprising the portion of Northwestern Ontario which was transferred to Ontario from the Northwest Territories in 1912, existed until 1927 when it was merged into Kenora District.

* Kenora, created in 1907 from Rainy River District

* Albert Wren of Kenora was the longest serving " Liberal-Labour " MPP, sitting in the Ontario legislature from 1951 until his death in 1961.

* the part of the Territorial District of Kenora lying east of a line drawn from the northeast corner of the most northerly point of the Territorial District of Thunder Bay ( Albany River ) due north to Hudson Bay ;

* the part of the Territorial District of Kenora lying east of a line drawn north from the most northerly northeast corner of the Territorial District of Thunder Bay to Hudson Bay.

Category: People from Kenora

Aside from the city of Thunder Bay, Kenora is the only other municipality in the entire region with a population of greater than 10, 000 people.

Anxious to get away from Toronto, Lill moved north to Kenora, Ontario in 1977 where she worked as a mental health consultant.

He was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 2004 to 2008, representing the riding of Kenora for the Liberal Party.

Kenora defeated Montreal 4 – 2 and 8 – 6, taking the Cup back to Northern Ontario.

The games were played on January 17 and 21, with Kenora winning 4 – 2 and 8 – 6, respectively.

Four more northern districts were created between 1907 and 1912: Cochrane, Kenora, Sudbury and Timiskaming.

The smallest municipality to produce a Stanley Cup champion team is Kenora, Ontario ; the town had a population of about 4, 000 when the Kenora Thistles captured the Cup in January 1907.

At Kenora, the Trans-Canada designation includes both the main route through the city's urban core and the Highway 17A bypass route.

Brampton Lake is located near Kenora, Ontario.

Dryden is currently part of the provincial electoral district of Kenora — Rainy River.

Kenora — Rainy River's Member of Provincial Parliament is Sarah Campbell.

Federally, the city is part of the Kenora riding and is represented by Greg Rickford, a Conservative.

Kenora, originally named Rat Portage, is a small city situated on the Lake of the Woods in Northwestern Ontario, Canada, close to the Manitoba boundary, and about east of Winnipeg.

It is the seat of Kenora District.

The town of Kenora was amalgamated with the towns of Keewatin and Jaffray Melick in 2000 to form the present-day City of Kenora.

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

The name, " Kenora ," was coined by combining the first two letters of Keewatin, Norman ( two nearby communities ) and Rat Portage.

Ojibwa tipi, Kenora, 1922.

Kenora was once claimed as part of the Province of Manitoba, and there are early references to Rat Portage, Manitoba.

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