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In addition to the General Store and Post Office, there is a volunteer fire department and building and a community centre. The community centre is the original one-room schoolhouse which housed grades 1 to 8 until sometime in the 1960s. The current caretaker of the Community Center is Jean Byerlay.
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The Kenabeek town signs are placed about 3 miles (4.8 km) from the General Store and Post Office, but the surrounding homes are mostly on the original 160-acre (0.65 km) farm plots, except for a few homes carved out of those plots for extended family or friends, and are not town-homes.
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Kenabeek and its surrounding area is mostly sand with a bit of rock, and a shallow amount of topsoil, and therefore is not good agricultural land. There are a number of small lakes within two or three miles (5 km) of Kenabeek, mostly privately owned. Many are
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Kenabeek was founded at some time in the early 1920s as a post office, since the nearest post office at the time was in
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Most of the residents of the Kenabeek area can trace their families back two and three generations.
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Elevation taken at geographic coordinates from Google Maps. Accessed 2017-01-02.
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lakes and others are surrounded by swamp. Several of the lakes are home to
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Kenabeek is located in Ontario
47°38′22″N 79°59′44″W / 47.63944°N 79.99556°W / 47.63944; -79.99556
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Ontario
Timiskaming
Time zone
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705, 249
/ˈkɛnəˌbɛk/
KEN-ə-bek
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Unorganized West Part
Timiskaming District

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