Editing Kenora (section)

{{Short description|City in Ontario, Canada}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=February 2024}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2024}}
{{About|the city|other uses|Kenora (disambiguation)}}
{{Redirect|Rat Portage|the nearby First Nations reserve|Rat Portage 38A}}
{{Infobox settlement
| name               = Kenora
| official_name      = City of Kenora
| native_name        = <!-- if different from the English name -->
| other_name         = 
| settlement_type    = [[List of cities in Ontario|City]] ([[List of municipalities in Ontario#Single-tier municipalities|single-tier]])
<!-- images and maps  ----------->| image_skyline      = Kenora ON skyline.JPG
| image_caption      = 
| image_flag         = 
| image_seal         = 
| image_shield       = 
| nickname           = K-Town
| motto              = North America's premier boating destination
| image_map          = 
| map_caption        = 
| pushpin_map        = Canada Ontario
| pushpin_label_position = right
| pushpin_mapsize    = 
| coordinates        = {{coord|49|46|N|94|29|W|region:CA-ON|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type   = Country
| subdivision_name   = Canada
| subdivision_type1  = [[Provinces and territories of Canada|Province]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Ontario]]
| subdivision_type2  = District
| subdivision_name2  = [[Kenora District|Kenora]]
| established_title  = Incorporated (town)
| established_date   = 1882 as Rat Portage
| established_title2 = Renamed
| established_date2  = 1905 as Kenora
| established_title3 = [[Amalgamation (politics)|Amalgamated]] (City)
| established_date3  = 2000<ref name=history>[http://www.kenora.ca/portal/tourism/about/history.aspx?id=100 City of Kenora - History Milestones] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313130238/http://www.kenora.ca/portal/tourism/about/history.aspx?id=100 |date=2012-03-13 }} and [http://www.kenora.ca/portal/tourism/about/history.aspx?id=99 City of Kenora - History and Culture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071021033443/http://www.kenora.ca/portal/tourism/about/history.aspx?id=99 |date=2007-10-21 }} both accessed 9 November 2007</ref>
| government_type    = <!-- Politics ----------------->
| government_footnotes = 
| leader_title       = Mayor
| leader_name        = Andrew Poirier
| leader_title1      = Governing Body
| leader_name1       = [[Kenora City Council]]
| leader_title2      = [[House of Commons of Canada|MP]]
| leader_name2       = [[Eric Melillo]] ([[Kenora (federal electoral district)|Kenora]], [[Conservative Party of Canada|CPC]])
| leader_title3      = [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario|MPP]]
| leader_name3       = [[Greg Rickford]] ([[Kenora—Rainy River (provincial electoral district)|Kenora—Rainy River]], [[Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario|PC]])
| total_type         = Total<!-- to set a non-standard label for total area and population rows -->
<!-- Area    --------------------->| area_footnotes     = <ref name=SCref21>{{SCref |year=2021 |unit=csd |code={{#property:P3012}} |access-date=2025-01-03}}</ref>
| area_total_km2     = 
| area_land_km2      = 211.65
| area_water_km2     = 
| area_water_percent = 
| area_urban_km2     = 15.25
| area_urban_footnotes = <ref name="sc2021-PC">{{cite web |title=Kenora Ontario [Population centre] Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=kenora&DGUIDlist=2021S05100406&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1,4&HEADERlist=0 |website=www12.statcan.gc.ca |publisher=Government of Canada - Statistics Canada |access-date=2025-01-03}}</ref>
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| elevation_m        = 409.70
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| population_footnotes = <ref name=SCref21/>
| population_total   = 14865
<!-- Population   ----------------------->| population_as_of   = 2021
| population_density_km2 = 70.7
| population_urban   = 10974
| population_density_urban_km2 = 719.6
| population_note    = 
| population_urban_footnotes = <ref name="sc2021-PC"/>
<!-- General information  --------------->| timezone           = [[Central Time Zone|CST]]
| utc_offset         = −06:00
| timezone_DST       = CDT
| utc_offset_DST     = −05:00
<!-- Area/postal codes & others -------->| postal_code_type   = [[Canadian postal code#Forward sortation areas|Forward sortation area]]
| postal_code        = [[List of P postal codes of Canada|P9N]]
| area_code          = [[Area code 807|807]]
| website            = {{Official URL}}
}}

'''Kenora''' ({{IPAc-en|k|ə|ˈ|n|ɔːr|ə}}), previously named '''Rat Portage''' ({{langx|fr|Portage-aux-Rats}}), is a city situated on the [[Lake of the Woods]] in [[Ontario]], Canada, close to the [[Manitoba]] boundary, and about {{convert|208|km|abbr=on}} east of [[Winnipeg]] by road.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Kenora {{!}} The Canadian Encyclopedia|url=https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/kenora|access-date=2021-06-09|website=thecanadianencyclopedia.ca}}</ref> It is the seat of [[Kenora District]].

The history of the name extends beyond the time of French settlers arriving in the region. The name Rat Portage had its origin in the [[Ojibwe language|Ojibwe]] name ''Wazhashk-Onigam'', which, roughly translated, means [[portage]] to the country of the [[muskrat]]s. A shortened and somewhat corrupted version, Rat Portage, was adopted by the [[Hudson's Bay Company]] in naming their post, then located on Old Fort Island on the [[Winnipeg River]]. When the post was moved to the mainland and a town grew up around it, the name Rat Portage was assumed by the community.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-06-13 |title=Rat Portage Becomes Kenora |url=https://themusekenora.ca/rat-portage-becomes-kenora/ |access-date=2022-03-02 |website=The Muse - Lake of the Woods Museum {{!}} Douglas Family Art Centre |language=en-CA}}</ref>

The town of Rat Portage was renamed in 1905 by using the first two letters of itself and the neighbouring towns of Keewatin and Norman to form the present-day City of Kenora.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.northernontario.travel/sunset-country/how-kenora-got-its-name |title=How Kenora Got Its Name|date=30 March 2017|access-date=August 23, 2020}}</ref> In 2001, the towns of Kenora (including Norman) and Keewatin as well as the Township of Jaffray Melick amalgamated under the ''[[Municipal Act]]''.

Kenora is the administrative headquarters of the [[Anishinabe of Wauzhushk Onigum]], [[Obashkaandagaang Bay First Nation|Obashkaandagaang Bay]], and Washagamis Bay [[First Nations in Canada|First Nations]] [[band government]]s.