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Cold Lake (Alberta)

Lake in western Canada

Summary

Lake in western Canada

Field	Value
name	Cold Lake
image	Cold Lake featuring Kinosoo Beach.jpg
image_size	255
caption	Kinosoo Beach on the edge of Cold Lake
location	Bonnyville No. 87, Alberta / Beaver River No. 622, Saskatchewan
coords
type	Mesotrophic
inflow
pushpin_map	Alberta#Canada
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Alberta
outflow	Cold River
part_of	Churchill River drainage basin
catchment	6140 km2
basin_countries	Canada
area	373 km2
depth	49.9 m
max-depth	99.1 m
shore	142.14 km
elevation	535 m
islands
cities	City of Cold Lake

| max-depth = 99.1 m

Cold Lake viewed from [[Meadow Lake Provincial Park]], Saskatchewan

Cold Lake is a large lake in Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. Most of the lake is within Alberta. It is one of the deepest lakes in Alberta with a maximum depth of 99.1 m. It has around 24 known species of fish and is a major ice fishing lake. Cold Lake is also major stop for many migrating birds, and is home to one of the largest warbler populations in Alberta. The city of Cold Lake is the largest community on the lake.

Description

Cold Lake has a total surface area of 373 km2, 248 km2 of which is in Alberta. Except for the western shore, the lake is surrounded by protected areas such as the Cold Lake Provincial Park in Alberta and the Meadow Lake Provincial Park in Saskatchewan.

The city of Cold Lake is located on the south-western shore while the Cold Lake 149A and B Indian reserves of the Cold Lake First Nations are on the western and southern shores respectively. Cold Lake House was a trading post built by the Montreal traders in 1781 near present-day Beaver Crossing, Alberta, south of Cold Lake.

The Martineau River flows from Primrose Lake into Cold Lake, which in turn discharges through the Cold River. The Cold River travels through a series of lakes in Meadow Lake Provincial Park and ends as it empties into Lac des Îles. The Waterhen River, which is a major tributary of Beaver River, is the primary outflow for Lac des Îles and it continues east where it meets Beaver River, a major tributary of the Churchill River.

The lake has a native legend of a large lake monster, the "kinosoo", with many residents claiming to have evidence or have seen it.

Fossil record

Cold Lake preserves an extensive fossil and subfossil record from the latest part of the Late Pleistocene, after the Last Glacial Maximum, to the Late Holocene. By the Middle Holocene, the mammalian fauna that lived in the region was in essence a modern one.

Fish species

Fish species include walleye, sauger, yellow perch, northern pike, lake trout, lake whitefish, cisco, burbot, white sucker, and longnose sucker. Both Alberta and Saskatchewan angling licences are valid on the entire lake.

References

"Cold Lake Fishing Map". Bist LLC..
"Cold Lake". Government of Canada.
Atlas of Alberta Lakes. "Cold Lake".
"Meadow Lake Provincial Park". Government of Saskatchewan.
Jass, Christopher N.. (29 November 2017). "Underwater faunal assemblages: radiocarbon dates and late Quaternary vertebrates from Cold Lake, Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada". [[Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences]].
"Cold Lake". FishBrain.
"Cold Lake". Angler's Atlas.
(10 December 2021). "Fishing and Hunting".

Wikipedia Source

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