Did You Know: The Keewatin-Kenora area was the Flour Milling Capital of Canada in 1916
by Braden Murray
Did You Know:
In 1916 the Keewatin-Kenora area was the flour milling capital of Canada. Between Keewatin’s Lake of the Woods Milling Company and Kenora’s Maple Leaf Milling Company they could produce 13000 barrels of flour a day— that’s over 2.5 million pounds of flour!
That’s a lotta biscuits!
Montreal was in second place with 12500 barrels a day, or 2.4 million pounds of flour.
Photos by Carl Linde
Did you know?
The editor of the local newspaper pushed for Kenora to be named “Tresilva” instead. He thought the word was excellent because it could be written without lifting the pen off the paper. The name Tresilva was tremendously unpopular with the townsfolk and was quickly abandoned.