03-20-2007, 09:24 PM
second_sight_kyle Wrote:There is actually a small separatist movement for Northern Ontario, or at least, for parts of Northern Ontario. I know that in my neck of the woods, a few Kenora (if anyone knows where that is) council members wanted to secede and join Manitoba.
Ontario and Manitoba claimed the Kenora area during the 1870s and 1880s, and both governments established parallel administrations.
![[Image: ont1880b.jpg]](http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/maps/maps/ont1880b.jpg)
see:
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