Minaki (/məˈnæˌkiː/ mih-NAH-kee or /miːnɑːˈkiː/ mee-nah-KEE)[dubious – discuss] is an unincorporated area and community in Unorganized Kenora District in northwestern Ontario, Canada.

[1] It is located at the point where the Canadian National Railways transcontinental main line crosses the Winnipeg River,[2] between Wade to the west and Ena Lake at the east, and was accessible only by rail until about 1960.

First Nations people have lived on the Winnipeg River in the Minaki area for a millennium or more, judging by the potshards and arrow points that turn up along the shores.

In the nineteenth century the Hudson's Bay Company had a trading post a couple of kilometres north of the present community.

Most major stands of white pine were either cut by the Simpson and Short lumber company in the 1920s or destroyed by wildfires in the drought summers of the 1930s.

The largest remaining stands of virgin pine timber, the trees that symbolize the rugged north for many Canadians, are on islands where they were protected from both logging and fire.

Visitors to Minaki are few in the November–April period, though snow-machine traffic from Kenora to points farther north passes a few kilometres away from the community.