Transportation

First Plane Makes Trans-Canada Flight

On October 10, 1920, a crowd of hundreds gathered at the Kenora docks to witness a plane attempting the first Trans-Canada flight.

Building the Road to Save the Town

One hundred years ago this month, in March 1919, there was a vote in Kenora that fundamentally changed the look and feel of life in town. In the third week of March, the taxpayers of Kenora voted overwhelmingly in favour of taking on a massive public debt to build roads and sidewalks in town.

Pack the Shovel: Four Frozen Swedes and the First Car Trip to Winnipeg

This is the story of four men who made the very first trip to Winnipeg by car in 1927, a full five years before the highway was built.

Did you know?

Both the Hudson’s Bay Company and the Northwest Company operated on the Lake of the Woods, and would often sabotage each others equipment at portage sites.