Duck Lake, Saskatchewan

Town of Duck Lake
Town

Duck Lake Town Office

Location of Duck Lake in Saskatchewan

Coordinates: 52°49′N 106°14′W / 52.82°N 106.23°W
Country Canada
Province Saskatchewan
Region Saskatchewan
Post office established 1879
Village Incorporated 1898
Town Incorporated 1911
Government
 • Mayor Denis Poirier
 • Town Administrator Betty Fiolleau
 • Governing body Duck Lake Town Council
Area
 • Land 2.86 km2 (1.10 sq mi)
Population (2006)
 • Total 610
 • Density 213.5/km2 (553/sq mi)
Time zone CST
Postal code S0K 1J0
Area code(s) 306
Highways Highway 11
Highway 212
Website Official Site
[1][2]

Duck Lake is a town in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located 88 kilometres north of Saskatoon and 44 kilometres south of Prince Albert on highway 11, in the rural municipality of Duck Lake. Immediately to the north of Duck Lake is the south block of the Nisbet Provincial Forest.

It is also the administrative centre of the Beardy's and Okemasis Plains Cree First Nations band government.

History

Duck Lake was one of the 5 Southbranch settlements settled by French speaking Métis from Manitoba in the 1860s and 1870s. A Roman Catholic Mission was established in Duck Lake in 1874 by Father André O.M.I. and by 1888 the village had a school, a post office (called Stobart), a flour mill (gristmill) and a trading post. From 1882 to 1905 Duck Lake was within the District of Saskatchewan of the North-West Territories.[3]

In 1885, Duck Lake was the site of the Battle of Duck Lake, a conflict between Métis warriors and the Government of Canada, at the start of the Northwest Rebellion. At Duck Lake, the Prince Albert Trail, which ran from Regina to Prince Albert, crossed the Carlton Trail and it marked the halfway point between the Métis headquarters at Batoche and the North-West Mounted Police at Fort Carlton.[4]

Historic Carpenter Gothic style All Saints Anglican Church built in 1896 is a municipal heritage site. Its historic cemetery contains the graves of some of those who fought in the Battle of Duck Lake as well as those of other pioneers of the community.[5]

The 1973 western Alien Thunder was partially filmed here.

One of the murals documenting the region's history
Duck Lake Regional Interpretive Centre

Demographics

Notable people from Duck Lake

References

  1. ↑ National Archives, Archivia Net. "Post Offices and Postmasters". Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  2. ↑ Government of Saskatchewan, MRD Home. "Municipal Directory System". Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Henry Thomas McPhillips (1888), McPhillips' alphabetical and business directory of the district of Saskatchewan, N.W.T.: Together with brief historical sketches of Prince Albert, Battleford and the other settlements in the district, 1888 (pages 93-97), Prince Albert, NWT: Henry Thomas McPhillips
  4. ↑ "Canadian Plains Research Center Mapping Division" (PDF). Retrieved 13 Sep 2013.
  5. ↑ Canada's Historic Places: All Saints Anglican Church
  6. ↑ "2011 Community Profiles". Canada 2011 Census. Statistics Canada. July 5, 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-25.
  7. ↑ "2006 Community Profiles". Canada 2006 Census. Statistics Canada. March 30, 2011. Retrieved 2013-09-25.

External links

Further reading

Barnholden, Michael. (2009). Circumstances Alter Photographs: Captain James Peters' Reports from the War of 1885. Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks. ISBN 978-0-88922-621-0.

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Titanic St. Laurent Gradin
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Waldheim Rosthern Batoche

Coordinates: 52°49′N 106°14′W / 52.817°N 106.233°W