Kenora, Ont, City, pop 15 838 (2001c), 16 365 A (1996c), area 211.08 km2, inc 2000, is located on LAKE OF THE WOODS, 50 km E of the Manitoba border. The city is the result of the amalgamation of 3 former towns, Kenora (incorporated 1892), Jaffray Melick (incorporated 1988) and Keewatin (incorporated 1908).

The LA VÉRENDRYES built Ft St-Charles on the NW arm of the lake in 1732. Incorporated as Rat Portage by Manitoba in 1882 during a boundary dispute with Ontario, and subsequently by Ontario in 1892, the current site was renamed Kenora in 1905. The name derives from Keewatin, Norman and Rat Portage, interdependent communities clustered where the lake spills into the Winnipeg R.

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