Unorganized Kenora District is an
unorganized area
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in northwestern
Ontario
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,
Canada
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, in
Kenora District
Kenora District is a district and census division in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. The district seat is the City of Kenora.
It is geographically the largest division in Ontario: at , it covers 38 percent of the province's area, making it larger ...
. Constituting 98.39 percent of the district's land area, yet only 10.93 percent of its population, it is essentially the remainder of the district's territory after all incorporated cities, municipalities, townships,
Indian reserve
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s, and
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s have been excluded. It is by far the largest municipal-equivalent level census division in Ontario, covering over 35 percent of the entire provincial land area, yet only about 0.05 percent of the population of Ontario.
Local services boards
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Greater Oxdrift
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Melgund
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Minaki
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Red Lake Road
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Redditt
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Round Lake
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Wabigoon
Demographics
Population trend:
[Statistics Canada: ]1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
, 2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
, 2006
2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.
Events
January
* January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute.
* January 12 – A stampede during t ...
census
* Population in 2011: 7,031
* Population in 2006: 7,041
* Population in 2001: 7,631
* Population in 1996: 10,269 (or 7,981 when adjusted to 2001 boundaries)
* Population in 1991: 9,723
See also
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List of townships in Ontario
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Northern Ontario Northeastern Ontario Algoma D ...
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Sand Point Lake, Ontario
External links
Presentation of Unorganized Kenora District - Statistics Canada
References
Geography of Kenora District
Kenora
Kenora (), previously named Rat Portage (), is a city situated on the Lake of the Woods in Ontario, Canada, close to the Manitoba boundary, and about east of Winnipeg by road. It is the seat of Kenora District.
The history of the name exten ...
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