Moose Lake, Manitoba
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Moose Lake is a small native community located on the northern limits of the Saskatchewan River Delta on the western shore of Cedar Lake about 74 km Southeast of The Pas in Manitoba, Canada. There is both an Indian reserve, home to the Mosakahiken Cree Nation, and a non-treaty community on adjacent land.
Thomas Henry Peacock Lamb (also known as THP or Ten Horse-Power Lamb), an Englishman from Yorkshire, began a trading post in the community in the year 1900. It was known as Lamb's Store. Later, his son Tom Lamb (who later started Lamb Air) took over the store and operated it with his children for years.
Eventually, Tom's son-in-law Jock McAree and daughter Carol took over the store.
THP's daughter, Billie Lamb Allan, wrote a memoir of her family's life at Moose Lake at the beginning of the 20th century. The book "Dew Upon the Grass" was published in 1963. The title came from a favorite quotation of her father from the King James version of the bible: "The King's wrath is as the roaring of a lion, but his favour is as dew upon the grass." "Dew Upon the Grass" chronicled the lives of Thomas Henry Peacock Lamb and Caroline Alice Marks Lamb as they raised eleven children in northern Manitoba.
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