Fort Frances
Fort Frances is a town of 7,700 people in Northern Ontario. Fort Frances is a popular fishing destination. It hosts the annual Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Colin Old, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 7,950 residents
- Description: town in Rainy River District, Ontario, Canada
- Neighbors: International Falls
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Frances High School and Fort Saint Pierre.
Fort Frances High School
School
Fort Frances High School is the only high school serving Fort Frances, Ontario. The school is administered by the Rainy River District School Board and serves roughly 475 students.
Fort Saint Pierre
Historic site
Photo: Colin Old, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fort Saint Pierre on Rainy Lake was the first French fort built west of Lake Superior. It was the first of eight forts built during the elder Vérendrye's expansion of trade and exploration westward from the Great Lakes.
Fort Frances railway station
Building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fort Frances railway station is a building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include International Falls and Ranier.
International Falls
Photo: Andrew Filer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
International Falls is a city in Minnesota. The city is nicknamed "Frostbite Falls" or "Icebox of the Nation". According to Forbes magazine, it is the coldest city in the Lower 48 United States.
Ranier
Village
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ranier rə-NEER) is a city in Koochiching County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 569 at the 2020 census. Ranier is located east of the city of International Falls, along State Highway 11. Ranier is situated 3½ km east of Fort Frances.
Fort Frances
- Categories: single-tier municipality, border city, and locality
- Location: Rainy River District, Ontario, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
48.6114° or 48° 36′ 41″ northLongitude
-93.3968° or 93° 23′ 48″ westPopulation
7,950Elevation
340 metres (1,115 feet)IATA airport code
YAGUnited Nations Location Code
CA FFSOpen location code
86W8JJ63+H7OpenStreetMap ID
node 847780909OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
5955826Wikidata ID
Q1438546
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Fort Frances” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فورت فرانسيس”
- Atikamekw: “Fort Frances”
- Bavarian: “Fort Frances”
- Cebuano: “Fort Frances”
- Chinese: “弗朗西斯堡”
- Czech: “Fort Frances”
- Dagbani: “Fort Frances”
- Dutch: “Fort Frances”
- Finnish: “Fort Frances”
- French: “Fort Frances”
- German: “Fort Frances”
- Japanese: “フォートフランシス”
- Persian: “فورت فرانسس”
- Polish: “Fort Frances (Ontario)”
- Polish: “Fort Frances”
- Portuguese: “Fort Frances”
- Russian: “Форт Франсес”
- Serbian: “Fort Frances, Ontario”
- Serbian: “Форт Франсес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Frances”
- Slovak: “Fort Frances”
- Spanish: “Fort Frances”
- Swedish: “Fort Frances”
- Turkish: “Fort Frances”
- Ukrainian: “Форт-Френсес”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Fort Frances”. Photo: Colin Old, CC BY-SA 3.0.