Kenora

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 200 km 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 shape the present-day City of Kenora. In 2001, the towns of Kenora and Keewatin and additionally the unincorporated networks of Norman and Jaffray Melick amalgamated under the Municipal Act, 2001.

Kenora is the managerial base camp of the Anishinabe of Wauzhushk Onigum, Obashkaandagaang Bay, and Washagamis Bay First Nation band governments. Kenora's future site was in the domain of the Ojibway when the main European, Jacques de Noyon, located Lake of the Woods in 1688. Pierre de La Vérendrye built up a protected French exchanging post, Fort St. Charles, toward the south of present-day Kenora close to the current Canada, U.S. fringe in 1732, and France kept up the post until the point when 1763 when it lost the domain to the British in the Seven Years' War until at that point, it was the most northwesterly settlement of New France. In 1836 the Hudson's Bay Company built up a post on Old Fort Island, and in 1861, the Company opened a post on the territory at Kenora's present area.