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Kenora was founded in the late nineteenth century as a staging ground for the extraction of resources from the undeveloped wilderness of northwestern Ontario.
Fifteen percent of Kenora's population is aboriginal and it serves as the regional center for thirteen Anishinaabe communities.
A spokesperson for the Attorney General of Ontario reported there were 2,004 incarcerations in the KenoraDistrict in 2003, of which 1,562 were of First Nations descent–78 percent of the total.