What is "kenora"

Kenora, originally named Rat Portage (French Portage-aux-Rats), 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 Rat Portage was amalgamated with the towns of Keewatin and Norman in 1905 to form the present-day City of Kenora. The name, "Kenora", was coined by combining the first two letters of Keewatin, Norman and Rat Portage.

Kenora is the administrative headquarters of the Anishinabe of Wauzhushk Onigum, Obashkaandagaang Bay, and Washagamis Bay First Nation band governments.

Kenora is a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004.

Of the federal electoral districts located in Ontario it is the largest by land mass, and the smallest by population. It encompasses most of Kenora District except for the eastern third, and a small section of the northwest corner of Thunder Bay District. It includes many remote First Nations reserves of extreme Northern Ontario. It succeeds the former federal riding of Kenora—Rainy River.

Kenora may refer to:

• City of Kenora, Ontario, Canada
• Kenora (electoral district), federal and provincial electoral districts in Ontario
• Kenora District, Ontario, a territorial district in Ontario

Kenora was an Ontario provincial electoral district in northwestern Ontario until 1999.