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Duck Lake, Saskatchewan

Town in Saskatchewan, Canada

Summary

Town in Saskatchewan, Canada

Field	Value
official_name	Town of Duck Lake
native_name
settlement_type	Town
image_skyline	Duck Lake Town Office.jpg
image_caption	Duck Lake Town Office
pushpin_map	Saskatchewan#Canada
pushpin_map_caption	Location of Duck Lake
coordinates
pushpin_label_position	none
pushpin_mapsize	200
map_caption	Location of Duck Lake
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Canada
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Saskatchewan
subdivision_type2	Region
subdivision_type3	Rural municipality
subdivision_name3	Duck Lake No. 463
leader_title	Mayor
leader_name	Jason Anderson
leader_title1	Town Administrator
leader_name1	Michelle Zurakowski
leader_title2	Governing body
leader_name2	Duck Lake Town Council
established_title	Post office established
established_date	1879
established_title2	Village Incorporated
established_date2	1898
established_title3	Town Incorporated
established_date3	1911
unit_pref
area_footnotes	(2021)
area_land_km2	2.38
population_as_of	2021
population_footnotes
population_total	579
population_density_km2	243.3
timezone	CST
utc_offset	−06:00
postal_code_type	Postal code
postal_code	S0K 1J0
area_code	306
blank_name	Highways
blank_info	Highway 11
Highway 212
blank1_name	Waterbodies
blank1_info	Duck Lake
website	Official Site
footnotes	{{Cite web
last	National Archives
first	Archivia Net
title	Post Offices and Postmasters	url=http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php
access-date	25 September 2013
url-status	dead
archive-url	https://web.archive.org/web/20061006045957/http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php
archive-date	6 October 2006
last	Government of Saskatchewan
first	MRD Home
title	Municipal Directory System	url=http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx
access-date	25 September 2013
url-status	dead
archive-url	https://web.archive.org/web/20160115125115/http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx
archive-date	15 January 2016

Highway 212 |access-date=25 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006045957/http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/post-offices/001001-100.01-e.php |archive-date=6 October 2006 |access-date=25 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115125115/http://www.mds.gov.sk.ca/apps/Pub/MDS/welcome.aspx |archive-date=15 January 2016

Duck Lake is a town in the boreal forest of central Saskatchewan, Canada. Its location is 88 km north of Saskatoon and 44 km south of Prince Albert on Highway 11, in the Rural Municipality of Duck Lake No. 463. Immediately to the north of Duck Lake is the south block of the Nisbet Provincial Forest and to the south-west is Duck Lake, for which the town is named after.

The First Nations people are Cree and the band government of the Beardy's and Okemasis' Cree Nation is located here.

Duck Lake was home to one of the last operating schools in the Canadian Indian residential school system, the St. Michael's Indian Residential School (Duck Lake Indian Residential School), which closed in 1996.

History

Duck Lake () was one of the five 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, one of several districts of the Northwest Territories.{{Citation |publication-place = Prince Albert, NWT |publication-date = 1888

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 North-West 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.{{cite web | access-date =13 Sep 2013 }}

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.

The 1973 western Alien Thunder was partially filmed here.

Demographics

In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada, Duck Lake had a population of 579 living in 202 of its 232 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 569. With a land area of 2.38 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Notable people

Gabriel Dumont — Leader of Métis forces in the North-West Rebellion 1885.

References

{{Cite cgndb. HAGWQ. Duck Lake
"Duck Lake". University of Saskatchewan.
[http://www.historicplaces.ca/visit-visite/com-ful_e.aspx?id=4060 Canada's Historic Places: All Saints Anglican Church]
(February 9, 2022). "Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population Duck Lake, Town (T): Saskatchewan [Census subdivision]". [[Statistics Canada]].

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