Кенора: Город озер и фестивалей в Онтарио

City in Ontario, Canada

the city

Forestry, tourism and mining are the three largest sectors of the Kenora economy. The population balloons in the spring and summer to almost double the normal population when summer residents move in. The Lake of the Woods and numerous smaller lakes situated all around Kenora are the major draw for cottagers who summer here. Many are from the neighbouring province of Manitoba and the state of Minnesota.

Kenora, a site of natural attractions, has visitors from all over the world year round. In the summer months visitors come to the area to undertake activities including swimming, biking, fishing, hiking, and boating. Kenora's tourist industry is also active during the winter months as visitors come not only to observe its natural environment but also to partake in ice fishing, snowboarding, skiing (both downhill and cross country) and snowmachining. Kenora has two travel information centres. One is the newly renovated (2011) pavilion, located on the Harbourfront. The second information centre, called the Discovery Centre, opened July 22, 2011, and serves visitors year round from its location at 931 Lake View Drive (just off of Highway 17 West, also known as the Trans Canada highway).

The Lake of the Woods Museum and Douglas Family Art Centre are located at The MUSE. Harbourfront, a park on the shore of Lake of the Woods, hosts the city's annual winter and summer festivals, as well as concerts. Huskie the Muskie, a 40 feet (12 m) statue of a fighting muskellunge, is located in McLeod Park. The city's downtown core has a public arts project, with 20 murals depicting the region's history painted on buildings in the business district. The city is home to a major international freshwater bass fishing tournament. Kenora is sometimes stereotyped as an archetypal "hoser" community, evidenced by the phrase "Kenora dinner jacket" as a nickname for a hoser's flannel shirt. St. Alban's Anglican Cathedral is in Kenora. The now defunct Kenora Thistles ice hockey won the Stanley Cup in 1907, making Kenora the smallest city to have ever won the trophy. Many local contemporary ice hockey clubs pay homage to the team by using its name, including the town's amateur, junior, and senior level men's team.

Kenora is represented in the House of Commons by Conservative MP Eric Melillo, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario by MPP Greg Rickford of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. Dave Canfield served as mayor from 2000 until 2006, when he was defeated by Len Compton in the 2006 municipal election; Compton did not run in the 2010 municipal election, however, and Canfield was re elected as his successor. The current mayor is Andrew Poirier. 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.

Via Rail offers passenger service to Redditt on the CN transcontinental rail line, approximately 30 minutes and north of Kenora. The CP transcontinental rail line passes directly through town. Kenora Airport is located east northeast of the city centre. M. S. Kenora is a cruise located at the waterfront. Highway 17 passes through Kenora's urban core, and the Highway 17A Kenora By Pass goes around the city. Both routes are designated as part of the Trans Canada Highway. Highway 658 extends northerly from Kenora to Redditt. Kenora Transit operates three routes, from Monday to Saturday, 7:00am to 6:30pm.

Kenora's hospital, Lake of the Woods District Hospital, has three facilities in the city: the hospital itself, Morningstar Rehabilitation Centre, and Mental Health and Addictions services, located in St. Joseph's Health Centre.

Since Kenora is one of two judicial districts in Northwestern Ontario, it has disproportionate housing shortage as people from across the region with little to no social support in Kenora are unable to find places to stay after release from prison or while waiting in the city before their court dates. The situation worsened in 2013, when the judge in the Rainy River District moved and the position and its responsibilities was transferred to Kenora.

One of Earth's earliest supercontinents, a large landmass comprising several of today's continents, predating Pangaea by 2.4 billion years, has been termed Kenorland by geologists, named after the Kenoran orogeny (also called the Algoman orogeny), which in turn was named after the town of Kenora, Ontario. In Kenora, rocks and geomagnetic evidence have been found which support Kenorland's creation approximately 2.72 billion years ago (2.72 Ga) as a result of a series of accretion events and the formation of new continental crust, demarcating the earliest identifiably known land on Earth.

The major news source in Kenora is the Kenora Miner and News.

FM 89.5 CJRL FM ("89.5 The Lake"), adult contemporary
FM 93.5 CKSB 7 FM, Ici Radio Canada Première (relays CKSB 10 FM, Winnipeg)
FM 98.7 CBQX FM, CBC Radio One (relays CBQT FM, Thunder Bay)
FM 104.5 CKQV FM 2 ("Q104"), hot adult contemporary (relays CKQV FM, Vermilion Bay)

Kenora was Canada's smallest (and North America's second smallest) television market, served by only one television station, CJBN TV channel 13, a Global affiliate that ceased broadcasting in January 2017. The Kenora region is not designated as a mandatory market for digital television conversion. The Winnipeg outlets of CBC Television (CBWT DT), Radio Canada (CBWFT DT), CTV (CKY DT), Global (CKND DT) and Citytv (CHMI DT) are piped in via cable.