In Plain Sight: The Land Registry Building
The Douglas Family Art Centre was created by constructing a new addition onto the building once known as the Kenora Land Registry Office.
Burning the Boathouses
In April of 1972, Kenora summer student, Gerry McMillan, was tasked with burning down the abandoned boathouses on the Kenora Harbourfront.
The Community Centre
Learn the history of the building of the Kenora Community Centre, now called the Kenora Recreation Centre.
The New Thistle Rink
One of the major touchstone events that helped bring Kenora into a new era after all the death and destruction of the 1910s was the construction of the new Thistle Rink.
The Kenricia Hotel
In 1907, Frank Newell was hired to design a hotel befitting the burgeoning tourist town of Kenora: The Tourist Hotel, later the Kenricia.
A Cornerstone of History: The Doner Block
The Doner Block is surely one of Kenora’s most handsome structures. On the exterior it has remained largely unchanged in its 95-year history.